
Vanessa Williams
Born: 1963-05-12
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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
2026

Angie's Cure
2022

40 and Single
2018

9-1-1
2018

Raising Izzie
2012

Living Single
1993

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004

Our America
2002

Playing with Fire
2000

Between Brothers
1997

Phineas and Ferb
2007

American Horror Stories
2021

Cold Case
2003

The Flash
2014

Murder One
1995

Malcolm & Eddie
1996

The Pretender
1996

Law & Order
1990