Vanessa Williams
Vanessa Estelle Williams (sometimes professionally credited as Vanessa A. Williams) is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her roles as Maxine Joseph–Chadway in the Showtime drama series, Soul Food (2000–04), for which she received NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series, and as Rhonda Blair in the first season of the Fox prime time soap opera, Melrose Place (1992–93). She is also known as Nino Brown's feisty gun moll, Keisha in the 1991 crime drama film, New Jack City and as Anne-Marie McCoy in the first and fourth of the Candyman films.
Though not related, she is sometimes confused with American actress, singer, and former Miss America 1984, Vanessa L. Williams. Both women were also, coincidentally, born in New York in the same year. In addition, Vanessa A. Williams starred in the television soap opera, Soul Food, while Vanessa L. Williams starred in the original film.
Though not related, she is sometimes confused with American actress, singer, and former Miss America 1984, Vanessa L. Williams. Both women were also, coincidentally, born in New York in the same year. In addition, Vanessa A. Williams starred in the television soap opera, Soul Food, while Vanessa L. Williams starred in the original film.
Known for
Cruel Encounters
Black Girl, Erupted
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
Angie's Cure
Mid-Century
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
A Rich Christmas
Candyman
American Horror Stories
A Luv Tale
Love on a Two Way Street
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
One Fine Christmas
40 and Single
Thriller
9-1-1
The Flash
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
Raising Izzie
Sugar Mommas
Imagine That
Flirting with Forty
The Wendy Williams Show
Phineas and Ferb
Ice Spiders
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Cold Case
Black Listed
Our America
Like Mike
Soul Food
Punks
Playing with Fire
Incognito
Total Recall 2070
Between Brothers
Mother
The Pretender
Malcolm & Eddie
The Steve Harvey Show
Buddies
Murder One
Drop Squad
Chicago Hope
Living Single
Candyman
Melrose Place
New Jack City
Law & Order
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
The Cosby Show