Vanessa Williams
Acting
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.
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Filmography
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Wild Rose
2026
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
Cruel Encounters
2023
Black Girl, Erupted
2023
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
2022
Angie's Cure
2022
Mid-Century
2022
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
2021
A Rich Christmas
2021
Candyman
2021
American Horror Stories
2021
A Luv Tale
2021
Love on a Two Way Street
2020
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
2019
One Fine Christmas
2019
40 and Single
2018
Thriller
2018
9-1-1
2018
The Flash
2014
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
2014
Crossed the Line
2014
Raising Izzie
2012
Sugar Mommas
2012
Imagine That
2009
Contradictions of the Heart
2009
Flirting with Forty
2008
The Wendy Williams Show
2008
Phineas and Ferb
2007
Ice Spiders
2007
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
Cold Case
2003
Black Listed
2003
Our America
2002
Like Mike
2002
Good Day Live
Good Day Live
2001
Soul Food
2000
Punks
2000
Playing with Fire
2000
Incognito
1999
Total Recall 2070
1999
Between Brothers
1997
Mother
1996
The Pretender
1996
Malcolm & Eddie
1996
The Steve Harvey Show
1996
Buddies
1996
Murder One
1995
Drop Squad
1994
Chicago Hope
1994
Living Single
1993
Candyman
1992
Melrose Place
1992
The Jaleel White Special
The Jaleel White Special
1992
New Jack City
1991
Law & Order
1990
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Cosby Show
1984
