As Actor
Mid-Century
2022
4.5
Vanessa Williams
Acting
Birth Date
May 12, 1963
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
Complete Filmography
As Actor
Candyman
2021
6.0
As Actor
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
2019
2.0
As Actor
Crossed the Line
2014
6.2
As Actor
Raising Izzie
2013
8.1
As Actor
Imagine That
2009
6.0
As Actor
Flirting with Forty
2008
5.2
As Actor
Ice Spiders
2007
4.0
As Actor
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
7.0
As Actor
Our America
2002
7.0
As Actor
Punks
2000
5.0
As Actor
Mother
1996
6.8
As Actor
Drop Squad
1994
2.8
As Actor
Candyman
1992
6.6