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 Browns 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.
Aggie Maggy / Madison
Film 2021
Keisha
Film 1991
Eve Christmas
Film 2021
Anne-Marie McCoy
Film 1992
Beverly Gordon
Film 2022
Dr. April Sommers
Film 2007
Lori Strother
Film 2009
Sandra Winslow
Film 2014
Lea
Film 2009
J.W.
Film 2003
Gloria
Film 2020
Corynne
Film 2023
Cassandra Cole
Film 2023
Tonya
Film 2013
Self (voice)
Film 2004
Carla
Film 2022
Sandra Williams
Film 2002
Rebecca
Film 2019
Wilhelmina Hunter
Film 1999
Donna
Film 1996
Mrs. Walker
Film 2018
Riana Roberts
Film 2000
Susan
Film 2019
Anne-Marie McCoy
Film 2021
Juice
Film 2014
Lynn
Film 2012
Pharmacist
Film 2002
Lucille
Film 2022
Tv 1996
Vera
Tv 1990
Denise Clements
Tv 1996
Jade
Tv 1984
Crystal Stacy (2007)
Tv 2003
Tv 1995
Tv 1997
Nina
Tv 1996
Tv 1993
Rhonda
Tv 1992
Tv 1999
Tv 1994
Tv 1996
Tv 2008
Self
Tv 2001
Dr. Eleanor Berger
Tv 2021
Francine West
Tv 2014
Candice
Tv 2021
Tv 1988
Maxine Chadway
Tv 2000
Claudette Collins
Tv 2018
Flight Attendant (voice)
Tv 2007
Lila Marquette
Tv 1995
Cheryl
Tv 1984
Bertha Brown
Tv 2018