Vanessa Williams
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.
57 acting credits
Acting · 57
Law & Order
1990
The Flash
2014
9-1-1
2018
Phineas and Ferb
2007
Melrose Place
1992
Cold Case
2003
Chicago Hope
1994
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Cosby Show
1984
The Pretender
1996
American Horror Stories
2021
Good Day Live
2001
Murder One
1995
The Steve Harvey Show
1996
Living Single
1993
The Wendy Williams Show
2008
Malcolm & Eddie
1996
Total Recall 2070
1999
Soul Food
2000
Candyman
1992
Between Brothers
1997
New Jack City
1991
Like Mike
2002
Candyman
2021
Buddies
1996
Flirting with Forty
2008
A Luv Tale
2021
Imagine That
2009
Wild Rose
2026
Mother
1996
40 and Single
2018
Ice Spiders
2007
Thriller
2018
Drop Squad
1994
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
2022
Mid-Century
2022
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
2021
Punks
2000
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
Crossed the Line
2014
Incognito
1999
Our America
2002
One Fine Christmas
2019
Angie's Cure
2022
Love on a Two Way Street
2020
Black Girl, Erupted
2023
Raising Izzie
2012
A Rich Christmas
2021
Black Listed
2003
Sugar Mommas
2012
Cruel Encounters
2023
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
2019
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
2014
Contradictions of the Heart
2009
Playing with Fire
2000
The Jaleel White Special
1992