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.
34 movies · 25 shows
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025·0.0
Cruel Encounters
2023·1.0
Black Girl, Erupted
2023·2.0
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
2022·3.7
Angie's Cure
2022·10.0
Mid-Century
2022·4.5
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
2021·4.7
A Rich Christmas
2021·5.8
Candyman
2021·6.0
Love on a Two Way Street
2020·0.0
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
2019·2.0
One Fine Christmas
2019·5.2
Thriller
2018·4.3
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
2014·0.0
Crossed the Line
2014·6.2
Raising Izzie
2012·8.1
Sugar Mommas
2012·0.0
Imagine That
2009·6.0
Contradictions of the Heart
2009·6.5
Flirting with Forty
2008·5.3
Ice Spiders
2007·4.1
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004·8.0
Allergic to Nuts
2003·0.0
Black Listed
2003·4.0
Our America
2002·8.0
Like Mike
2002·6.1
Punks
2000·5.1
Playing with Fire
2000·8.0
Incognito
1999·7.0
Mother
1996·6.8
Drop Squad
1994·3.5
Candyman
1992·6.7
The Jaleel White Special
1992·0.0
New Jack City
1991·6.7