Vanessa Williams
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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.
Known for
Credits
Candyman (1992)
as Anne-Marie McCoy
Imagine That (2009)
as Lori Strother
Candyman (2021)
as Anne-Marie McCoy
Like Mike (2002)
as Pharmacist
New Jack City (1991)
as Keisha
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Mid-Century (2022)
as Beverly Gordon
Flirting with Forty (2008)
as Kristine
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion (2021)
as Eve Christmas
Punks (2000)
as Jennifer
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story (2022)
as Lucille
Mother (1996)
as Donna
Ice Spiders (2007)
as Dr. April Sommers
Contradictions of the Heart (2009)
as Lea
Sugar Mommas (2012)
as Lynn
Men, Money & Gold Diggers (2014)
as Sandra Winslow
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones (2019)
as Rebecca
Thriller (2018)
as Mrs. Walker
Drop Squad (1994)
as Mali
Love on a Two Way Street (2020)
as Gloria
Incognito (1999)
as Wilhelmina Hunter
Black Girl, Erupted (2023)
as Cassandra Cole
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me (2004)
as Self (voice)
One Fine Christmas (2019)
as Susan
Black Listed (2003)
as J.W.
Raising Izzie (2012)
as Tonya
Our America (2002)
as Sandra Williams
Crossed the Line (2014)
as Juice
A Rich Christmas (2021)
as Aggie Maggy / Madison
Playing with Fire (2000)
as Riana Roberts
Cruel Encounters (2023)
as Corynne
Allergic to Nuts (2003)
Actor
Angie's Cure (2022)
as Carla