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.
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · Cruel Encounters as Corynne
- 2023 · Black Girl, Erupted as Cassandra Cole
- 2022 · Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story as Lucille
- 2022 · Angie's Cure as Carla
- 2022 · Mid-Century as Beverly Gordon
- 2021 · Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion as Eve Christmas
- 2021 · A Rich Christmas as Aggie Maggy / Madison
- 2021 · Candyman as Anne-Marie McCoy
- 2021 · American Horror Stories as Dr. Eleanor Berger
- 2021 · A Luv Tale as Candice
- 2020 · Love on a Two Way Street as Gloria
- 2019 · I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones as Rebecca
- 2019 · One Fine Christmas as Susan
- 2018 · 40 and Single as Bertha Brown
- 2018 · Thriller as Mrs. Walker
- 2018 · 9-1-1 as Claudette Collins
- 2014 · The Flash as Francine West
- 2014 · Men, Money & Gold Diggers as Sandra Winslow
- 2014 · Crossed the Line as Juice
- 2013 · Raising Izzie as Tonya
- 2012 · Sugar Mommas as Lynn
- 2009 · Imagine That as Lori Strother
- 2009 · Contradictions of the Heart as Lea
- 2008 · Flirting with Forty as Kristine
- 2008 · The Wendy Williams Show as
- 2007 · Phineas and Ferb as Flight Attendant (voice)
- 2007 · Ice Spiders as Dr. April Sommers
- 2004 · Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me as Self (voice)
- 2003 · Cold Case as Crystal Stacy (2007)
- 2003 · Black Listed as J.W.
- 2002 · Our America as Sandra Williams
- 2002 · Like Mike as Pharmacist
- 2001 · Good Day Live as Self
- 2000 · Soul Food as Maxine Chadway
- 2000 · Punks as Jennifer
- 2000 · Playing with Fire as Riana Roberts
- 1999 · Incognito as Wilhelmina Hunter
- 1999 · Total Recall 2070 as
- 1997 · Between Brothers as
- 1996 · Mother as Donna
- 1996 · The Pretender as Denise Clements
- 1996 · Malcolm & Eddie as
- 1996 · The Steve Harvey Show as Nina
- 1996 · Buddies as
- 1995 · Murder One as
- 1995 · Murder One as Lila Marquette
- 1994 · Drop Squad as Mali
- 1994 · Chicago Hope as
- 1993 · Living Single as
- 1992 · Candyman as Anne-Marie McCoy
- 1992 · Melrose Place as Rhonda
- 1991 · New Jack City as Keisha
- 1990 · Law & Order as Vera
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as
- 1984 · The Cosby Show as Jade
- 1984 · The Cosby Show as Cheryl