Acting credits
53
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Vanessa Williams
Acting
Career Snapshot
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1.8
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Movies: 31Series: 22
TMDB ID: 543193
IMDb ID: nm0004539
Known for: Acting
Born: May 12, 1963
Age: 62
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1984 - 2023
Years active: 40
Average TMDB rating: 6.6
Wikidata: Q3554516
Also known as
Vanessa A. Williams
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Vanessa Williams.
1.0
Cruel Encounters
as Corynne
2023 Movie
2.0
Black Girl, Erupted
as Cassandra Cole
2023 Movie
3.7
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
as Lucille
2022 Movie
10.0
Angie's Cure
as Carla
2022 Movie
4.5
Mid-Century
as Beverly Gordon
2022 Movie
4.7
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
as Eve Christmas
2021 Movie
5.8
A Rich Christmas
as Aggie Maggy / Madison
2021 Movie
6.0
Candyman
as Anne-Marie McCoy
2021 Movie
Love on a Two Way Street
as Gloria
2020 Movie
2.0
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
as Rebecca
2019 Movie
5.2
One Fine Christmas
as Susan
2019 Movie
4.3
Thriller
as Mrs. Walker
2018 Movie
6.2
Crossed the Line
as Juice
2014 Movie
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
as Sandra Winslow
2014 Movie
8.1
Raising Izzie
as Tonya
2012 Movie
Sugar Mommas
as Lynn
2012 Movie
6.0
Imagine That
as Lori Strother
2009 Movie
5.0
Contradictions of the Heart
as Lea
2009 Movie
5.2
Flirting with Forty
as Kristine
2008 Movie
4.0
Ice Spiders
as Dr. April Sommers
2007 Movie
7.0
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
as Self (voice)
2004 Movie
2.5
Black Listed
as J.W.
2003 Movie
7.0
Our America
as Sandra Williams
2002 Movie
6.1
Like Mike
as Pharmacist
2002 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Vanessa Williams.
7.8
American Horror Stories
as Dr. Eleanor Berger • 1 eps
2021 Series
6.1
A Luv Tale
as Candice • 6 eps
2021 Series
9.0
40 and Single
as Bertha Brown • 6 eps
2018 Series
8.2
9-1-1
as Claudette Collins • 4 eps
2018 Series
7.8
The Flash
as Francine West • 6 eps
2014 Series
5.5
The Wendy Williams Show
1 eps
2008 Series
7.9
Phineas and Ferb
as Flight Attendant (voice) • 1 eps
2007 Series
7.8
Cold Case
as Crystal Stacy (2007) • 1 eps
2003 Series
7.0
Soul Food
as Maxine Chadway • 74 eps
2000 Series
6.1
Total Recall 2070
1 eps
1999 Series
Between Brothers
1 eps
1997 Series
7.3
The Pretender
as Denise Clements • 1 eps
1996 Series
7.4
Malcolm & Eddie
1 eps
1996 Series
6.9
The Steve Harvey Show
as Nina • 1 eps
1996 Series
4.7
Buddies
1 eps
1996 Series
7.8
Murder One
1995 Series
7.2
Chicago Hope
as Grace Carr • 6 eps
1994 Series
8.3
Living Single
1 eps
1993 Series
5.9
Melrose Place
as Rhonda • 32 eps
1992 Series
7.3
Law & Order
as Vera • 1 eps
1990 Series
5.4
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1 eps
1988 Series
7.0
The Cosby Show
as Jade • 2 eps
1984 Series