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Vanessa Williams

Actress / Television Actress / Film Actress / Film Director | * 05/12/1963 (60) | Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York (United States of America (USA))
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Vanessa Estelle Williams, sometimes professionally credited as Vanessa A. Williams (born May 12, 1963), 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 Nino Brown's feisty gun moll, Keisha in the 1991 crime drama film, New Jack City. Williams is also known for her role as Anne-Marie McCoy in the first and fourth of the Candyman films, and as Rhonda Blair in the first season of the Fox prime time soap opera, Melrose Place (1992–93). ()
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Vanessa Estelle Williams(sometimes professionally credited asVanessa A. Williams) is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her roles asMaxine Joseph–Chadwayin theShowtimedrama series,Soul Food(2000–04), for which she receivedNAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series, and as Rhonda Blair in the first season of theFoxprime timesoap opera,Melrose Place (1992–93). She is also known as Nino Brown's feistygun 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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Thriller

Known for these Movies & Shows

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth. ...

Candyman

R

1992 | 3.3/5 | 1h 40min
Drama, Horror, Thriller
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A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself. ...

New Jack City

R

1991 | 3.3/5 | 1h 37min
Thriller, Crime, Drama
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Theodore 'Teddy' Hoffman is a highly-regarded defense attorney in a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. Having successfully defended the wealthy but suspicious Richard Cross in a much-publicised murder ...

Murder One

TV-14

1995 | 4.0/5 | 47min per episode
Drama
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Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia ...

Soul Food

TV-14

2000 | 2.9/5 | 1h per episode
Drama
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Movies with Vanessa Williams as Actress(28)

as Corynne2023 Cruel Encounters
as Lucille2022 Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
as Carla2022 Angie's Cure
as Beverly Gordon2022 Mid-Century
as Aggie Maggy / Madison2021 A Rich Christmas
as Anne-Marie McCoy2021 Candyman
as Eve Christmas2021 Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
as Gloria2020 Love on a Two Way Street
as Rebecca2019 I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
as Susan2019 One Fine Christmas
as Mrs. Walker2018 Thriller
as Juice2014 Crossed the Line
as Tonya2013 Raising Izzie
as Lynn2012 Sugar Mommas
as Lori Strother2009 Imagine That
as Lea2009 Contradictions of the Heart
as Kristine2008 Flirting with Forty
as Dr. April Sommers2007 Ice Spiders
as J.W.2003 Black Listed
as Sandra Williams2002 Our America
as Pharmacist2002 Like Mike
as Riana Roberts2000 Playing with Fire
as Jennifer2000 Punks
as Wilhelmina Hunter1999 Incognito
as Donna1996 Mother
as Mali1994 Drop Squad
as Anne-Marie McCoy1992 Candyman
as Keisha1991 New Jack City

TV Shows/Series with Vanessa Williams as Actress(22)

as Candice2021 A Luv Tale
as Dr. Eleanor Berger2021 American Horror Stories
as Bertha Brown2018 40 and Single
as Francine West2014 The Flash
2008 The Wendy Williams Show
as Crystal Stacy (2007)2003 Cold Case
as herself2001 Good Day Live
as Maxine Chadway2000 Soul Food
1999 Total Recall 2070
1997 Between Brothers
1996 Malcolm & Eddie
1996 Buddies
1996 The Steve Harvey Show
as Denise Clements1996 The Pretender
1995 Murder One
as Lila Marquette1995 Murder One
1994 Chicago Hope
1993 Living Single
as Rhonda1992 Melrose Place
as Vera1990 Law & Order
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1984 The Cosby Show

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Born: Sunday, 05/12 1963 (May) in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 60 years + 344 days)
Zodiac sign: Taurus (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Marymount Manhattan College
Other names for Vanessa Williams (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Vanessa A. Williams"
"Vanessa Estelle Williams"
Vanessa Williams frequently works together with these people:
Tom Cavanagh (13x, Actor)
Edward D. Murphy (11x, Actor)
Mark Casella (9x, Actor)
David Fonteno (8x, Actor)
Joe Pentangelo (8x, Actor)
Adam LeFevre (7x, Actor)
Edward James Hyland (7x, Actor)
Socorro Santiago (7x, Actress)
Anthony Ruiz (7x, Actor)
George Guidall (7x, Actor)
Philip LeStrange (7x, Actor)
Bernard Rose (5x, Crew)

Other people with this name: Vanessa Williams (US)

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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1399165, Added: 09/04/2019, Last updated: 03/22/2024