Vanessa Williams

Vanessa Williams

Birthday: 1963-05-12

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Also known as: Vanessa A. Williams

imdb_id: nm0004539

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 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.

Played in movies:

Angie's Cure

Score: 10.0

Raising Izzie

Score: 8.1

Our America

Score: 7.0

Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me

Score: 7.0

Mother

Score: 6.8

Candyman

Score: 6.6

New Jack City

Score: 6.6

Crossed the Line

Score: 6.2

Like Mike

Score: 6.1

Candyman

Score: 6.0

Imagine That

Score: 6.0

A Rich Christmas

Score: 5.8

One Fine Christmas

Score: 5.2

Flirting with Forty

Score: 5.2

Contradictions of the Heart

Score: 5.0

Punks

Score: 5.0

Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion

Score: 4.7

Mid-Century

Score: 4.5

Thriller

Score: 4.2

Ice Spiders

Score: 4.0

Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story

Score: 3.7

Drop Squad

Score: 2.8

Black Listed

Score: 2.5

I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones

Score: 2.0

Black Girl, Erupted

Score: 2.0

Cruel Encounters

Score: 1.0

The Jaleel White Special

Score: 0.0

Sugar Mommas

Score: 0.0

Playing with Fire

Score: 0.0

Incognito

Score: 0.0

Love on a Two Way Street

Score: 0.0

Men, Money & Gold Diggers

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

40 and Single

Score: 9.0

Living Single

Score: 8.4

9-1-1

Score: 8.2

Phineas and Ferb

Score: 7.9

American Horror Stories

Score: 7.8

Cold Case

Score: 7.8

The Flash

Score: 7.8

Murder One

Score: 7.8

Murder One

Score: 7.8

Law & Order

Score: 7.4

Malcolm & Eddie

Score: 7.4

The Pretender

Score: 7.4

Chicago Hope

Score: 7.2

The Cosby Show

Score: 7.0

The Cosby Show

Score: 7.0

Soul Food

Score: 7.0

A Luv Tale

Score: 6.9

The Steve Harvey Show

Score: 6.8

Total Recall 2070

Score: 6.1

The Wendy Williams Show

Score: 6.0

Melrose Place

Score: 5.9

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Score: 5.5

Buddies

Score: 4.7

Good Day Live

Score: 3.0

Between Brothers

Score: 0.0