
Biography
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.
Filmography36 titles

Angie's Cure

Wild Rose

40 and Single

Between Brothers

9-1-1

Raising Izzie

Living Single

Phineas and Ferb

American Horror Stories

The Flash

Cold Case

Malcolm & Eddie

Murder One

The Pretender

Law & Order

The Steve Harvey Show

The Cosby Show

Mother

Candyman

New Jack City

Crossed the Line

Like Mike

Candyman

Imagine That

Melrose Place

A Rich Christmas

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion

Mid-Century

Thriller

Ice Spiders

Black Girl, Erupted

I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones

Cruel Encounters

Love on a Two Way Street

Sugar Mommas