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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 Nino Brown's feisty gun moll, Keisha in the 1991 crime drama film, New Jack City. Williams also is known for her role as Anne-Marie McCoy in the first and fourth films in the Candyman film series, and as Rhonda Blair in the first season of the Fox prime time soap opera, Melrose Place (1992–93).
Born
Sunday, 12 May 1963
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Angie's Cure | Carla | 2024 |
| Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story | Lucille | 2022 |
| Mid-Century | Beverly Gordon | 2022 |
| Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion | Eve Christmas | 2021 |
| A Rich Christmas | Aggie Maggy / Madison | 2021 |
| Candyman | Anne-Marie McCoy | 2021 |
| American Horror Stories | Dr. Eleanor Berger | 2021 |
| Two Degrees | Vanessa | 2020 |
| Singleholic | Jackie Chisolm | 2020 |
| The L Word: Generation Q | Pippa Pascal | 2019 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Angie's Cure | Carla | 2024 |
| Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story | Lucille | 2022 |
| Mid-Century | Beverly Gordon | 2022 |
| Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion | Eve Christmas | 2021 |
| A Rich Christmas | Aggie Maggy / Madison | 2021 |
| Candyman | Anne-Marie McCoy | 2021 |
| American Horror Stories | Dr. Eleanor Berger | 2021 |
| Two Degrees | Vanessa | 2020 |
| Singleholic | Jackie Chisolm | 2020 |
| The L Word: Generation Q | Pippa Pascal | 2019 |
| I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones | Rebecca | 2019 |
| One Fine Christmas | Susan | 2019 |
| Thriller | Mrs. Walker | 2019 |
| 40 and Single | Bertha Brown | 2018 |
| 9-1-1 | Claudette Collins | 2018 |
| Famous in Love | Ida Turner | 2017 |
| The Secret She Kept | Beverly | 2016 |
| The Flash | Francine West | 2014 |
| Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks | Anne-Marie McCoy | 2014 |
| Unsung Hollywood | Self | 2014 |
| Zo What? Morning Show | Self - Celebrity Panelist | 2014 |
| Men, Money & Gold Diggers | Sandra WInslow | 2014 |
| Crossed the Line | Juice | 2014 |
| Celebrity Page | Self | 2013 |
| Exhale | Self | 2013 |
| Major Crimes | Zora Sax | 2012 |
| Raising Izzie | Tonya Freeman / Tonya | 2012 |
| Chasing LA | Self | 2012 |
| Sugar Mommas | Lynn | 2012 |
| Tim Alexander's A Mother's Love | Rochelle Richardson | 2011 |
| Way Black When: Primetime | Self - Guest | 2011 |
| The Bay | Cleo Harris | 2010 |
| Imagine That | Lori Strother | 2009 |
| Contradictions of the Heart | Lea | 2009 |
| Flirting with Forty | Kristine | 2008 |
| Knight Rider | Ambassador Olara Kumali | 2008 |
| Lincoln Heights | Aunt Naomie / Naomi Bradshaw | 2007 |
| Angels Can't Help But Laugh | Self | 2007 |
| Ice Spiders | Dr. April Sommers | 2007 |
| Gift for the Living | Voiceover | 2005 |
| Everybody Hates Chris | Tallulah Lafitte | 2005 |
| In the Cutz | Self | 2005 |
| Video on Trial | The Girl | 2005 |
| Cold Case | Crystal Stacy - 2007 | 2003 |
| Black Listed | J.W. | 2003 |
| Our America | Sandra Williams | 2002 |
| Like Mike | Pharmacist | 2002 |
| Boogeymen: The Killer Compilation | Anne-Marie McCoy (Candyman) | 2001 |
| Heavy Gear: The Animated Series | Sonja Briggs | 2001 |
| Afrocentricity | Self | 2000 |
| Soul Food | Maxine Chadway | 2000 |
| Punks | Jennifer | 2000 |
| Acapulco Black Film Festival | Self | 2000 |
| Incognito | Wilhelmina Hunter | 1999 |
| Total Recall 2070 | Dr. Violet Whims | 1999 |
| Between Brothers | Rebecca | 1997 |
| Mother | Donna | 1996 |
| Jungle Cubs | Trech | 1996 |
| The Pretender | Denise Clements | 1996 |
| Malcolm & Eddie | Stephanie | 1996 |
| The Steve Harvey Show | Nina | 1996 |
| E! True Hollywood Story | Herself | 1996 |
| Buddies | Janice Rollins | 1996 |
| Murder One | Lila / Lila Marquette / (credit only) | 1995 |
| Drop Squad | Mali | 1994 |
| NYPD Blue | Kira | 1993 |
| Living Single | Hellura | 1993 |
| Candyman | Anne-Marie McCoy | 1992 |
| Melrose Place | Rhonda Blair / Rhonda | 1992 |
| HBO First Look | Self | 1992 |
| New Jack City | Keisha | 1991 |
| Law & Order | Vera | 1990 |
| The Word | Self | 1990 |
| Live! Dick Clark Presents | Self | 1988 |
| The Cosby Show | Jade / Cheryl | 1984 |
