Vanessa Williams

Known for ActingBorn 1963-05-12 (age 63)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Wild Rose

Angie's Cure

40 and Single

Between Brothers

9-1-1

Raising Izzie

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

Our America

Playing with Fire

American Horror Stories

Phineas and Ferb

Living Single

The Flash

Cold Case

Murder One

Malcolm & Eddie

The Pretender

Law & Order

Soul Food

Chicago Hope

Incognito

The Steve Harvey Show

The Cosby Show

Mother

New Jack City

Candyman

Contradictions of the Heart

Crossed the Line

A Luv Tale

Total Recall 2070

Candyman

Like Mike

Imagine That

A Rich Christmas

Melrose Place

The Wendy Williams Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Buddies

One Fine Christmas

Flirting with Forty

Punks

Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion

Mid-Century

Thriller

Ice Spiders

Black Listed

Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story

Good Day Live