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.
Acted in
Cruel Encounters
2023
as Corynne
Black Girl, Erupted
2023
as Cassandra Cole
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
2022
as Lucille
Angie's Cure
2022
as Carla
Mid-Century
2022
as Beverly Gordon
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
2021
as Eve Christmas
A Rich Christmas
2021
as Aggie Maggy / Madison
Candyman
2021
as Anne-Marie McCoy
American Horror Stories
2021
as Dr. Eleanor Berger
A Luv Tale
2021
as Candice
Love on a Two Way Street
2020
as Gloria
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
2019
as Rebecca
One Fine Christmas
2019
as Susan
40 and Single
2018
as Bertha Brown
Thriller
2018
as Mrs. Walker
9-1-1
2018
as Claudette Collins
The Flash
2014
as Francine West
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
2014
as Sandra Winslow
Crossed the Line
2014
as Juice
Raising Izzie
2013
as Tonya
Sugar Mommas
2012
as Lynn
Imagine That
2009
as Lori Strother
Contradictions of the Heart
2009
as Lea
Flirting with Forty
2008
as Kristine
Phineas and Ferb
2007
as Flight Attendant (voice)
Ice Spiders
2007
as Dr. April Sommers
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
as Self (voice)
Cold Case
2003
as Crystal Stacy (2007)
Black Listed
2003
as J.W.
Our America
2002
as Sandra Williams
Like Mike
2002
as Pharmacist
Soul Food
2000
as Maxine Chadway
Punks
2000
as Jennifer
Playing with Fire
2000
as Riana Roberts
Incognito
1999
as Wilhelmina Hunter
Total Recall 2070
1999
Between Brothers
1997
Mother
1996
as Donna
The Pretender
1996
as Denise Clements
Malcolm & Eddie
1996
The Steve Harvey Show
1996
as Nina
Buddies
1996
Murder One
1995
Murder One
1995
as Lila Marquette
Drop Squad
1994
as Mali
Chicago Hope
1994
Living Single
1993
Candyman
1992
as Anne-Marie McCoy
Melrose Place
1992
as Rhonda
New Jack City
1991
as Keisha
Law & Order
1990
as Vera
The Cosby Show
1984
as Jade
The Cosby Show
1984
as Cheryl