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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...
Known for
Law & OrderSeries • 1990
The FlashSeries • 2014
9-1-1Series • 2018
Phineas and FerbSeries • 2007
Melrose PlaceSeries • 1992
Cold CaseSeries • 2003
Chicago HopeSeries • 1994
The Cosby ShowSeries • 1984
The PretenderSeries • 1996
Living SingleSeries • 1993
The Steve Harvey ShowSeries • 1996
American Horror StoriesSeries • 2021
Murder OneSeries • 1995
Malcolm & EddieSeries • 1996
Total Recall 2070Series • 1999
Between BrothersSeries • 1997
CandymanMovie • 2021
CandymanMovie • 1992
Soul FoodSeries • 2000
Imagine ThatMovie • 2009
Like MikeMovie • 2002
New Jack CityMovie • 1991
Mid-CenturyMovie • 2022
Flirting with FortyMovie • 2008