Vanessa Williams
ActingVanessa 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
Filmography — Acting
New Jack City
Keisha
Candyman
Anne-Marie McCoy
Like Mike
Pharmacist
Candyman
Anne-Marie McCoy
Flirting with Forty
Kristine
Imagine That
Lori Strother
Mother
Donna
Punks
Jennifer
Thriller
Mrs. Walker
Ice Spiders
Dr. April Sommers
Drop Squad
Mali
Mid-Century
Beverly Gordon
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
Lucille
One Fine Christmas
Susan
Our America
Sandra Williams
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
Eve Christmas
Black Girl, Erupted
Cassandra Cole
Incognito
Wilhelmina Hunter
Sugar Mommas
Lynn
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
Sandra Winslow
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
Rebecca
Crossed the Line
Juice
A Rich Christmas
Aggie Maggy / Madison
Angie's Cure
Carla
Cruel Encounters
Corynne
Love on a Two Way Street
Gloria
Raising Izzie
Tonya
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Self (voice)
Black Listed
J.W.
Contradictions of the Heart
Lea
The Jaleel White Special
Playing with Fire
Riana Roberts