Vanessa Williams
Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American singer, actress, producer, dancer, and model. She was the first Black woman to win Miss America in 1984, but resigned after nude photos of her were published in Penthouse magazine. Williams has since had a successful career in music and acting, selling millions of albums and earning critical acclaim.
149 acting credits
Acting · 149
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Modern Family
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Desperate Housewives
2004
The Graham Norton Show
2007
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Good Wife
2009
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993
The View
1997
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
American Experience
1988
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Elsbeth
2024
Sherri
2022
T. J. Hooker
1982
Tony Awards
1956
Ugly Betty
2006
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The Mindy Project
2012
Doc McStuffins
2012
Tamron Hall
2019
Stars in the House
2020
Intimate Portrait
1993
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1990
The Librarians
2014
Ally McBeal
1997
The Oscars
1953
Good Day Live
2001
The Tony Danza Show
2004
The Reichen Show
2005
The Jonathan Ross Show
2011
The Jacksons: An American Dream
1992
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
2012
Broad City
2014
Girls5eva
2021
The Proud Family
2001
Velma
2023
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Match Game
2016
On Air with Ryan Seacrest
2004
The Bachelorette
2003
L.A. Doctors
1998
Boomtown
2002
The Wendy Williams Show
2008
The $100,000 Pyramid
2016
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
The Odyssey
1997
Name That Tune
2021
A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019
T.O.T.S.
2019
Celebrity Catchphrase
2018
Difficult People
2015
Days of Our Lives
1965
Eraser
1996
Blankety Blank
2021
First Wives Club
2019
Jungle Cubs
1996
Partners in Crime
1984
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
Secret Celebrity RuPaul's Drag Race
2020
A Capitol Fourth
1980
Shaft
2000
South Beach
2006
Hannah Montana: The Movie
2009
666 Park Avenue
2012
Batman: Hush
2019
Queen of the Universe
2021
Hoodlum
1997
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay
2018
The Claudia Winkleman Show
2026
Miss America
1954
Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
2007
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1991
MADtv
1995
The Man from Earth: Holocene
2017
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
1999
Johnson Family Vacation
2004
Dance with Me
1998
Bethenny
2012
Daytime Divas
2017
Calling All T.O.T.S.
2020
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
1990
The Pick-up Artist
1987
Soul Food
1997
Bad Hair
2021
Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
2013
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
American Style
2019
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
Another You
1991
The Legend of Hallowaiian
2018
Shear Genius
2007
Futuresport
1999
Nothing Lasts Forever
1995
Light It Up
1999
VH1 Divas
1998
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
2024
Don Quixote
2000
Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best
2023
Under the Gun
1988
It's Black Entertainment
2002
Show of Titles
2021
Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas with Vanessa Williams
2020
Bye Bye Birdie
1995
WW3
2001
He's Way More Famous Than You
2013
Seriously... Phil Collins
1990
And Then Came Love
2007
Nothing Lasts Forever
1995
Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II
1995
Miss Virginia
2019
My Brother
2006
VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night
2016
The Kid Who Loved Christmas
1990
A Diva's Christmas Carol
2000
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
1989
The Courage to Love
2000
The Little Pageant That Could
2024
Show Boat
2015
The Trip to Bountiful
2014
Shaft: Still the Man
2000
The Secret She Kept
2016
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
2004
Tripped Up
2023
Santa, Baby!
2001
The 7th Annual Soul Train Christmas Starfest
2004
Los lunes a las 9
2022
Stompin' at the Savoy
1992
Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade
2005
Dreams Come True: A Celebration of Disney Animation
2009
Pavarotti & Friends - For the Children of Liberia
1998
Singleholic
2020
Keep the Faith, Baby
2002
Gift for the Living
2005
Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade
2008
Christmas in Washington
2004
Rehearsing a Dream
2006
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
2023
Not Black Enough
2017
A Mother's Love
2011
Afrocentricity
2000
Christmas is Coming: Rob Mathes & Very Special Friends
2000
Score with Chicks
1994
Vanessa Williams: Live From the West Side
2020
There She Is
2020