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Vanessa Williams
Vanessa Estelle Williams (sometimes professionally credited as Vanessa A.
Born May 12, 1963 New York City, New York, USA1 movie on MoviHero
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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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- 2025Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror MoviesSelf (archive footage)
- 2023Cruel EncountersCorynne
- 2023Black Girl, EruptedCassandra Cole
- 2022Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson StoryLucille
- 2022Angie's CureCarla
- 2022Mid-CenturyBeverly Gordon
- 2021Welcome to the Christmas Family ReunionEve Christmas
- 2021A Rich ChristmasAggie Maggy / Madison
- 2020Love on a Two Way StreetGloria
- 2019I Left My Girlfriend for Regina JonesRebecca
- 2019One Fine ChristmasSusan
- 2018ThrillerMrs. Walker
- 2014Crossed the LineJuice
- 2014Men, Money & Gold DiggersSandra Winslow
- 2012Raising IzzieTonya
- 2012Sugar MommasLynn
- 2009Imagine ThatLori Strother
- 2009Contradictions of the HeartLea
- 2008Flirting with FortyKristine
- 2007Ice SpidersDr. April Sommers
- 2004Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of MeSelf (voice)
- 2003Allergic to NutsActor
- 2003Black ListedJ.W.
- 2002Our AmericaSandra Williams
- 2002Like MikePharmacist
- 2000PunksJennifer
- 2000Playing with FireRiana Roberts
- 1999IncognitoWilhelmina Hunter
- 1996MotherDonna
- 1994Drop SquadMali
- 1992CandymanAnne-Marie McCoy
- 1991New Jack CityKeisha
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