Vanessa Williams
- Schauspiel
- 12. Mai 1963 · New York City, New York, USA
Biografie
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.
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Filmografie
- TFI Unplugged
- Wild Rose · Joyce
- Legacy of Screams: The Evolution of Horror Movies · Selbst
- Cruel Encounters · Corynne
- Black Girl, Erupted · Cassandra Cole
- Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story · Lucille
- Angie's Cure · Carla
- Mid-Century · Beverly Gordon
- Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion · Eve Christmas
- A Rich Christmas · Aggie Maggy / Madison
- Candyman · Anne-Marie McCoy
- American Horror Stories · Dr. Eleanor Berger
- A Luv Tale · Candice
- Love on a Two Way Street · Gloria
- I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones · Rebecca
- One Fine Christmas · Susan
- 40 and Single · Bertha Brown
- Thriller - Blutbad an der Compton High · Mrs. Walker
- 9-1-1 Notruf L.A. · Claudette Collins
- The Flash · Francine West
- Men, Money & Gold Diggers · Sandra Winslow
- Crossed the Line · Juice
- Raising Izzie · Tonya
- Sugar Mommas · Lynn
- Zuhause ist der Zauber los · Lori Strother
- Contradictions of the Heart · Lea
- Er ist zu jung für dich! · Kristine
- The Wendy Williams Show
- Phineas und Ferb · Flight Attendant (Stimme)
- Ice Spiders · Dr. April Sommers
- Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me · Selbst
- Cold Case - Kein Opfer ist je vergessen · Crystal Stacy (2007)
- Allergic to Nuts
- Black Listed · J.W.
- Our America · Sandra Williams
- Like Mike · Pharmacist
- Good Day Live · Selbst
- Soul Food · Maxine Chadway
- Punks · Jennifer
- Playing with Fire · Riana Roberts
- Incognito · Wilhelmina Hunter
- Total Recall 2070
- Die Prachtexemplare · Rebecca
- Mother · Donna
- Pretender · Denise Clements
- Malcolm & Eddie
- Mr. Funky · Nina
- Buddies
- Murder One - Der Fall Jessica · Lila Marquette
- Mission D.R.O.P. · Mali
- Chicago Hope - Endstation Hoffnung · Grace Carr
- Living Single
- Candyman's Fluch · Anne-Marie McCoy
- Melrose Place · Rhonda
- New Jack City · Keisha
- Law & Order · Vera
- The Word
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark
- Die Bill Cosby Show · Jade, Cheryl