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.
Francine West
Vera
Flight Attendant (voice)
Claudette Collins
Nina
Crystal Stacy (2007)
Rhonda
Jade
Cheryl
Denise Clements
Dr. Eleanor Berger
Lila Marquette
Maxine Chadway
Anne-Marie McCoy
Anne-Marie McCoy
Pharmacist
Keisha
Lori Strother
Candice
Donna
Bertha Brown
Beverly Gordon
Jennifer
Kristine
Mrs. Walker
Dr. April Sommers
Mali
Lea
Aggie Maggy / Madison
Gloria
Cassandra Cole
Eve Christmas
Wilhelmina Hunter
Carla
Corynne
Lucille
Sandra Williams
Tonya
Lynn
Riana Roberts
J.W.
Susan
Self (voice)
Juice
Rebecca
Sandra Winslow
Self