Acting
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
Wild Rose
Series · 2026
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Film · 2025
Cruel Encounters
Film · 2023
Black Girl, Erupted
Film · 2023
Mid-Century
Film · 2022
Angie's Cure
Film · 2022
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
Film · 2022
A Rich Christmas
Film · 2021
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
Film · 2021
Candyman
Film · 2021
American Horror Stories
Series · 2021
A Luv Tale
Series · 2021
Love on a Two Way Street
Film · 2020
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
Film · 2019
One Fine Christmas
Film · 2019
Thriller
Film · 2018
9-1-1
Series · 2018
40 and Single
Series · 2018
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
Film · 2014
Crossed the Line
Film · 2014
The Flash
Series · 2014
Raising Izzie
Film · 2012
Sugar Mommas
Film · 2012
Imagine That
Film · 2009
Contradictions of the Heart
Film · 2009
Flirting with Forty
Film · 2008
The Wendy Williams Show
Series · 2008
Ice Spiders
Film · 2007
Phineas and Ferb
Series · 2007
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Film · 2004
Black Listed
Film · 2003
Allergic to Nuts
Film · 2003
Cold Case
Series · 2003
Our America
Film · 2002
Like Mike
Film · 2002
Good Day Live
Series · 2001
Punks
Film · 2000
Playing with Fire
Film · 2000
Soul Food
Series · 2000
Incognito
Film · 1999
Total Recall 2070
Series · 1999
Between Brothers
Series · 1997
Mother
Film · 1996
Malcolm & Eddie
Series · 1996
The Pretender
Series · 1996
The Steve Harvey Show
Series · 1996
Buddies
Series · 1996
Murder One
Series · 1995
Murder One
Series · 1995
Drop Squad
Film · 1994
Chicago Hope
Series · 1994
Living Single
Series · 1993
Candyman
Film · 1992
Melrose Place
Series · 1992
New Jack City
Film · 1991
Law & Order
Series · 1990
The Word
Series · 1990
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Series · 1988
The Cosby Show
Series · 1984
The Cosby Show
Series · 1984