Vanessa Williams
Birthday
1963/05/12 (61 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
Vanessa A. 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, ...Read more
Acting
(2021) A Rich Christmas
as Aggie Maggy / Madison
(1991) New Jack City
as Keisha
(2008) Flirting with Forty
as Kristine
(2021) Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
as Eve Christmas
(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
(2009) Contradictions of the Heart
as Lea
(1994) Drop Squad
as Mali
(2003) Black Listed
as J.W.
(2020) Love on a Two Way Street
as Gloria
(2023) Cruel Encounters
as Corynne
(2023) Black Girl, Erupted
as Cassandra Cole
(2013) Raising Izzie
as Tonya
(2004) Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
(2022) Angie's Cure
as Carla
(2002) Our America
as Sandra Williams
(2019) I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
as Rebecca
(1999) Incognito
as Wilhelmina Hunter
(1996) Mother
as Donna
(2018) Thriller
as Mrs. Walker
(2000) Playing with Fire
as Riana Roberts
(2019) One Fine Christmas
as Susan
(2021) Candyman
as Anne-Marie McCoy
(2014) Crossed the Line
as Juice
(2012) Sugar Mommas
as Lynn
(2002) Like Mike
as Pharmacist
(2022) Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
as Lucille
(1996) Malcolm & Eddie
as ---
(1990) Law & Order
as Vera
(1996) The Pretender
as Denise Clements
(1984) The Cosby Show
as Jade
(2003) Cold Case
as Crystal Stacy (2007)
(1995) Murder One
as ---
(1997) Between Brothers
as ---
(1996) The Steve Harvey Show
as Nina
(1993) Living Single
as ---
(1992) Melrose Place
as Rhonda
(1999) Total Recall 2070
as ---
(1994) Chicago Hope
as ---
(1996) Buddies
as ---
(2008) The Wendy Williams Show
as ---
(2001) Good Day Live
as Self
(2021) American Horror Stories
as Dr. Eleanor Berger
(2014) The Flash
as Francine West
(2021) A Luv Tale
as Candice
(1988) LIVE with Kelly and Mark
as ---
(2000) Soul Food
as Maxine Chadway
(2018) 9-1-1
as Claudette Collins
(2007) Phineas and Ferb
as Flight Attendant (voice)
(1995) Murder One
as Lila Marquette
(1984) The Cosby Show
as Cheryl
(2018) 40 and Single
as Bertha Brown