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.
Filmography (58 titles)
10.0ShowWild Rose
Joyce · 2026
MovieLegacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Self - (archive footage) · 2025
1.0MovieCruel Encounters
Corynne · 2023
2.0MovieBlack Girl, Erupted
Cassandra Cole · 2023
3.7MovieRemember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
Lucille · 2022
10.0MovieAngie's Cure
Carla · 2022
4.5MovieMid-Century
Beverly Gordon · 2022
4.7MovieWelcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
Eve Christmas · 2021
5.8MovieA Rich Christmas
Aggie Maggy / Madison · 2021
6.0MovieCandyman
Anne-Marie McCoy · 2021
7.8ShowAmerican Horror Stories
Dr. Eleanor Berger · 2021
6.1ShowA Luv Tale
Candice · 2021
MovieLove on a Two Way Street
Gloria · 2020
2.0MovieI Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
Rebecca · 2019
5.2MovieOne Fine Christmas
Susan · 2019
9.0Show40 and Single
Bertha Brown · 2018
4.3MovieThriller
Mrs. Walker · 2018
8.2Show9-1-1
Claudette Collins · 2018
7.8ShowThe Flash
Francine West · 2014
MovieMen, Money & Gold Diggers
Sandra Winslow · 2014
6.2MovieCrossed the Line
Juice · 2014
8.1MovieRaising Izzie
Tonya · 2012
MovieSugar Mommas
Lynn · 2012
6.0MovieImagine That
Lori Strother · 2009
6.5MovieContradictions of the Heart
Lea · 2009
5.3MovieFlirting with Forty
Kristine · 2008
5.5ShowThe Wendy Williams Show
2008
7.9ShowPhineas and Ferb
Flight Attendant (voice) · 2007
4.1MovieIce Spiders
Dr. April Sommers · 2007
8.0MovieHappy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Self (voice) · 2004