Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1963-05-12 (Age: 63)
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Vanessa Williams
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 (33)
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
Cruel Encounters
2023
Black Girl, Erupted
2023
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
2022
Angie's Cure
2022
Mid-Century
2022
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
2021
A Rich Christmas
2021
Candyman
2021
Love on a Two Way Street
2020
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
2019
One Fine Christmas
2019
Thriller
2018
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
2014
