Personal Info
Vanessa A. Williams
Vanessa Williams
Acting
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 rel…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
as Self - (archive footage)
Black Girl, Erupted
as Cassandra Cole
Cruel Encounters
as Corynne
Mid-Century
as Beverly Gordon
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
as Lucille
Angie's Cure
as Carla
Candyman
as Anne-Marie McCoy
A Rich Christmas
as Aggie Maggy / Madison
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
as Eve Christmas
Love on a Two Way Street
as Gloria
TV Shows
Wild Rose
as Joyce · 8 ep.
American Horror Stories
as Dr. Eleanor Berger · 1 ep.
A Luv Tale
as Candice · 6 ep.
9-1-1
as Claudette Collins · 4 ep.
40 and Single
as Bertha Brown · 6 ep.
The Flash
as Francine West · 6 ep.
The Wendy Williams Show
1 ep.
Phineas and Ferb
as Flight Attendant (voice) · 1 ep.
Cold Case
as Crystal Stacy (2007) · 1 ep.
Good Day Live
as Self · 1 ep.
