Vanessa Williams
Acting
1963-05-12 · New York City, New York, USA
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.
Filmography
Wild Rose
2026 · Series
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025 · Movie
Cruel Encounters
2023 · Movie
Black Girl, Erupted
2023 · Movie
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
2022 · Movie
Angie's Cure
2022 · Movie
Mid-Century
2022 · Movie
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
2021 · Movie
A Rich Christmas
2021 · Movie
Candyman
2021 · Movie
American Horror Stories
2021 · Series
A Luv Tale
2021 · Series
Love on a Two Way Street
2020 · Movie
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
2019 · Movie
One Fine Christmas
2019 · Movie
40 and Single
2018 · Series
Thriller
2018 · Movie
9-1-1
2018 · Series
The Flash
2014 · Series
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
2014 · Movie
Crossed the Line
2014 · Movie
Raising Izzie
2012 · Movie
Sugar Mommas
2012 · Movie
Imagine That
2009 · Movie
Contradictions of the Heart
2009 · Movie
Flirting with Forty
2008 · Movie
The Wendy Williams Show
2008 · Series
Phineas and Ferb
2007 · Series
Ice Spiders
2007 · Movie
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004 · Movie
Cold Case
2003 · Series
Allergic to Nuts
2003 · Movie
Black Listed
2003 · Movie
Our America
2002 · Movie
Like Mike
2002 · Movie
Good Day Live
2001 · Series
Soul Food
2000 · Series
Punks
2000 · Movie
Playing with Fire
2000 · Movie
Incognito
1999 · Movie
Total Recall 2070
1999 · Series
Between Brothers
1997 · Series
Mother
1996 · Movie
The Pretender
1996 · Series
Malcolm & Eddie
1996 · Series
The Steve Harvey Show
1996 · Series
Buddies
1996 · Series
Murder One
1995 · Series
Drop Squad
1994 · Movie
Chicago Hope
1994 · Series
Living Single
1993 · Series
Candyman
1992 · Movie
Melrose Place
1992 · Series
The Jaleel White Special
1992 · Movie
New Jack City
1991 · Movie
Law & Order
1990 · Series
The Word
1990 · Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
The Cosby Show
1984 · Series