Vanessa Williams
Actor
Biography
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
Candyman
as Anne-Marie McCoy 2021
Imagine That
as Lori Strother 2009
New Jack City
as Keisha 1991
Like Mike
as Pharmacist 2002
Mother
as Donna 1996
Ice Spiders
as Dr. April Sommers 2007
Flirting with Forty
as Kristine 2008
Thriller
as Mrs. Walker 2018
Mid-Century
as Beverly Gordon 2022
Raising Izzie
as Tonya 2012
Drop Squad
as Mali 1994
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
as Eve Christmas 2021
Punks
as Jennifer 2000
One Fine Christmas
as Susan 2019
A Rich Christmas
as Aggie Maggy / Madison 2021
Crossed the Line
as Juice 2014