Vanessa Williams
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Acting Credits
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, ...
Known For
Filmography
Wild Rose
2026
as Joyce
Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies
2025
as Self - (archive footage)
Cruel Encounters
2023
as Corynne
Black Girl, Erupted
2023
as Cassandra Cole
Mid-Century
2022
as Beverly Gordon
Angie's Cure
2022
as Carla
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
2022
as Lucille
A Rich Christmas
2021
as Aggie Maggy / Madison
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
2021
as Eve Christmas
Candyman
2021
as Anne-Marie McCoy
American Horror Stories
2021
as Dr. Eleanor Berger
A Luv Tale
2021
as Candice
Love on a Two Way Street
2020
as Gloria
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
2019
as Rebecca
One Fine Christmas
2019
as Susan
Thriller
2018
as Mrs. Walker
9-1-1
2018
as Claudette Collins
40 and Single
2018
as Bertha Brown
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
2014
as Sandra Winslow
Crossed the Line
2014
as Juice
The Flash
2014
as Francine West
Raising Izzie
2012
as Tonya
Sugar Mommas
2012
as Lynn
Imagine That
2009
as Lori Strother
Contradictions of the Heart
2009
as Lea
Flirting with Forty
2008
as Kristine
The Wendy Williams Show
2008
Ice Spiders
2007
as Dr. April Sommers
Phineas and Ferb
2007
as Flight Attendant (voice)
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004
as Self (voice)
Black Listed
2003
as J.W.
Allergic to Nuts
2003
Cold Case
2003
as Crystal Stacy (2007)
Our America
2002
as Sandra Williams
Like Mike
2002
as Pharmacist
Good Day Live
2001
as Self
Punks
2000
as Jennifer
Playing with Fire
2000
as Riana Roberts
Soul Food
2000
as Maxine Chadway
Incognito
1999
as Wilhelmina Hunter
Total Recall 2070
1999
Between Brothers
1997
as Rebecca
Mother
1996
as Donna
Malcolm & Eddie
1996
The Pretender
1996
as Denise Clements
The Steve Harvey Show
1996
as Nina
Buddies
1996
Murder One
1995
Murder One
1995
as Lila Marquette
Drop Squad
1994
as Mali
Chicago Hope
1994
as Grace Carr
Living Single
1993
Candyman
1992
as Anne-Marie McCoy
Melrose Place
1992
as Rhonda
New Jack City
1991
as Keisha
Law & Order
1990
as Vera
The Word
1990
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
The Cosby Show
1984
as Jade
The Cosby Show
1984
as Cheryl