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.
Known for
The Flash
Francine West
Law & Order
Vera
Phineas and Ferb
Flight Attendant (voice)
9-1-1
Claudette Collins
The Steve Harvey Show
Nina
Cold Case
Crystal Stacy (2007)
Melrose Place
Rhonda
Chicago Hope
The Cosby Show
Jade
The Cosby Show
Cheryl
The Pretender
Denise Clements
Living Single
Malcolm & Eddie
American Horror Stories
Dr. Eleanor Berger
Murder One
Murder One
Lila Marquette
Total Recall 2070
Soul Food
Maxine Chadway
Candyman
Anne-Marie McCoy
Candyman
Anne-Marie McCoy
Like Mike
Pharmacist
New Jack City
Keisha
Buddies
Between Brothers
Imagine That
Lori Strother
A Luv Tale
Candice
Mother
Donna
40 and Single
Bertha Brown
Mid-Century
Beverly Gordon
Punks
Jennifer
Flirting with Forty
Kristine
Thriller
Mrs. Walker
Ice Spiders
Dr. April Sommers
Drop Squad
Mali
Contradictions of the Heart
Lea
A Rich Christmas
Aggie Maggy / Madison
Love on a Two Way Street
Gloria
Black Girl, Erupted
Cassandra Cole
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
Eve Christmas
Incognito
Wilhelmina Hunter
Angie's Cure
Carla
Cruel Encounters
Corynne
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
Lucille
Our America
Sandra Williams
Raising Izzie
Tonya
Sugar Mommas
Lynn
Playing with Fire
Riana Roberts
Black Listed
J.W.
One Fine Christmas
Susan
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Self (voice)
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Crossed the Line
Juice
The Jaleel White Special
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
Rebecca
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
Sandra Winslow
Good Day Live
Self