Vanessa Williams

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1963-05-12 (62 years old)

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Vanessa Williams

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 actr...

Acting

2021

A Rich Christmas

as Aggie Maggy / Madison

2008

1991

New Jack City

as Keisha

1992

Candyman

as Anne-Marie McCoy

2000

Punks

as Jennifer

2022

Mid-Century

as Beverly Gordon

2007

Ice Spiders

as Dr. April Sommers

2009

Imagine That

as Lori Strother

2014

Men, Money & Gold Diggers

as Sandra Winslow

1994

Drop Squad

as Mali

2003

2023

2023

Black Girl, Erupted

as Cassandra Cole

2013

2022

Angie's Cure

as Carla

2002

Our America

as Sandra Williams

1999

Incognito

as Wilhelmina Hunter

1996

Mother

as Donna

2018

Thriller

as Mrs. Walker

2000

Playing with Fire

as Riana Roberts

2019

2021

Candyman

as Anne-Marie McCoy

2014

2012

2002

Like Mike

as Pharmacist

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