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Vanessa Williams
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.
As actor
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
Cruel Encounters
Black Girl, Erupted
Mid-Century
Angie's Cure
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
A Rich Christmas
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
Candyman
Love on a Two Way Street
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
One Fine Christmas
Thriller
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
Crossed the Line
Raising Izzie
Sugar Mommas
Imagine That
Contradictions of the Heart
Flirting with Forty
Ice Spiders
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
Black Listed
Our America
Like Mike
Punks
Playing with Fire
Incognito
Mother
Drop Squad