10.0
10.0
Angie's Cure
2022
as Carla
Vanessa Williams
Acting
Born:May 12, 1963(age 63)
Birthplace:New York City, New York, USA
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CommunityBiography
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.
Filmography (31 movies)
8.1
8.1
Raising Izzie
2013
as Tonya
7.0
7.0
Our America
2002
as Sandra Williams
7.0
7.0
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
as Self (voice)
6.8
6.8
Mother
1996
as Donna
6.6
6.6
New Jack City
1991
as Keisha
6.6
6.6
Candyman
1992
as Anne-Marie McCoy
6.2
6.2
Crossed the Line
2014
as Juice
6.0
6.0
Candyman
2021
as Anne-Marie McCoy
6.0
6.0
Imagine That
2009
as Lori Strother
5.8
5.8
A Rich Christmas
2021
as Aggie Maggy / Madison
5.2
5.2
Flirting with Forty
2008
as Kristine
5.2
5.2
One Fine Christmas
2019
as Susan
5.0
5.0
Contradictions of the Heart
2009
as Lea
4.7
4.7
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
2021
as Eve Christmas
4.5
4.5
Punks
2000
as Jennifer
4.4
4.4
Mid-Century
2022
as Beverly Gordon
4.3
4.3
Thriller
2018
as Mrs. Walker
4.0
4.0
Ice Spiders
2007
as Dr. April Sommers
3.7
3.7
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
2022
as Lucille
2.8
2.8
Drop Squad
1994
as Mali
2.5
2.5
Black Listed
2003
as J.W.
2.0
2.0
Black Girl, Erupted
2023
as Cassandra Cole
2.0
2.0
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
2019
as Rebecca
1.0
1.0
Cruel Encounters
2023
as Corynne
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
2014
as Sandra Winslow
Playing with Fire
2000
as Riana Roberts
Incognito
1999
as Wilhelmina Hunter
The Jaleel White Special
1992
Love on a Two Way Street
2020
as Gloria
Sugar Mommas
2012
as Lynn
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