Vanessa Williams
Known for: Acting
Born: May 12, 1963
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,…
Known for
Black Girl, Erupted
2023
Sugar Mommas
2012
Raising Izzie
2012
Playing with Fire
2000
A Rich Christmas
2021
Flirting with Forty
2008
Black Listed
2003
Cruel Encounters
2023
One Fine Christmas
2019
Crossed the Line
2014
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
2021
Contradictions of the Heart
2009
Angie's Cure
2022
Incognito
1999
Candyman
1992
Mid-Century
2022
Ice Spiders
2007
The Jaleel White Special
1992
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
2019
Candyman
2021
Punks
2000
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
2014
Our America
2002
Imagine That
2009
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
Mother
1996
Drop Squad
1994
New Jack City
1991
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
2022
Love on a Two Way Street
2020
Thriller
2018
Malcolm & Eddie
1996
Law & Order
1990
The Pretender
1996
The Cosby Show
1984
Cold Case
2003
Murder One
1995
The Steve Harvey Show
1996
Living Single
1993
Melrose Place
1992
Total Recall 2070
1999
Chicago Hope
1994
Buddies
1996
The Wendy Williams Show
2008
Good Day Live
2001
American Horror Stories
2021
The Flash
2014
Like Mike
2002
A Luv Tale
2021
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Soul Food
2000
9-1-1
2018
Phineas and Ferb
2007
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
40 and Single
2018
Between Brothers
1997
Wild Rose
2026