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Vanessa Williams
New York City, New York, USA
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 i…
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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 starred in the original film.
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2026
Wild Rose
TV show Joyce
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2025
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Movie Self - (archive footage)
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2023
Cruel Encounters
Movie Corynne
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2023
Black Girl, Erupted
Movie Cassandra Cole
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2022
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
Movie Lucille
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2022
Angie's Cure
Movie Carla
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2022
Mid-Century
Movie Beverly Gordon
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2021
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
Movie Eve Christmas
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2021
A Rich Christmas
Movie Aggie Maggy / Madison
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2021
Candyman
Movie Anne-Marie McCoy
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2021
American Horror Stories
TV show Dr. Eleanor Berger
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2021
A Luv Tale
TV show Candice
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2020
Love on a Two Way Street
Movie Gloria
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2019
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
Movie Rebecca
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2019
One Fine Christmas
Movie Susan
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2018
40 and Single
TV show Bertha Brown
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2018
Thriller
Movie Mrs. Walker
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2018
9-1-1
TV show Claudette Collins
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2014
The Flash
TV show Francine West
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2014
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
Movie Sandra Winslow
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2014
Crossed the Line
Movie Juice
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2012
Raising Izzie
Movie Tonya
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2012
Sugar Mommas
Movie Lynn
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2009
Imagine That
Movie Lori Strother
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2009
Contradictions of the Heart
Movie Lea
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2008
Flirting with Forty
Movie Kristine
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2008
The Wendy Williams Show
TV show
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2007
Phineas and Ferb
TV show Flight Attendant (voice)
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2007
Ice Spiders
Movie Dr. April Sommers
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2004
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Movie Self (voice)
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2003
Cold Case
TV show Crystal Stacy (2007)
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2003
Allergic to Nuts
Movie
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2003
Black Listed
Movie J.W.
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2002
Our America
Movie Sandra Williams
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2002
Like Mike
Movie Pharmacist
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2001
Good Day Live
TV show Self
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2000
Soul Food
TV show Maxine Chadway
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2000
Punks
Movie Jennifer
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2000
Playing with Fire
Movie Riana Roberts
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1999
Incognito
Movie Wilhelmina Hunter
