Vanessa Williams

Overview

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Birthday
May 12, 1963 (62 years old)

Vanessa Williams

Known For

Cruel Encounters
1h 32m
Movie 2023

Cruel Encounters

After the founder of a huge holding company dies in a mysterious helicopter crash, his wife, son and daughter jockey for the reins of his company in a struggle that involves deception, intrigue and murder.

Black Girl, Erupted
1h 17m
Movie 2023

Black Girl, Erupted

After a series of setbacks, high-achieving lawyer Reina must learn how to handle her mental health before her emotional outbursts destroy her career and her relationships.

Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
1h 34m
Movie 2022

Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story

Follows the successful career of Jackson as well as her unique friendship and devotion to Martin Luther King Jr. and her unsung contribution to the Civil Rights Movement.

Angie's Cure
2h 0m
Movie 2022

Angie's Cure

A traumatized rape victim finds therapy in a most disturbing way.

Mid-Century
1h 45m
Movie 2022

Mid-Century

A husband and wife's weekend in a mid-century modern vacation rental turns deadly when the husband discovers the owner is a psychopath with a backyard of buried secrets and designs on his wife.

Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
1h 25m
Movie 2021

Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion

Event planner Amy helps rising singer Tiffanie Christmas plan her holiday family reunion. Along the way Amy must navigate some challenging family dynamics, especially among Tiffanie's aunts as well as her own growing feelings for Tiffanie's cousin, Calvin. Will she be able to pull off an amazing Christmas family reunion?

A Rich Christmas
1h 31m
Movie 2021

A Rich Christmas

Spoiled socialite will learn a lesson after her father asks her to work in a family homeless center.

Candyman
1h 31m
Movie 2021

Candyman

A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.

Love on a Two Way Street
1h 15m
Movie 2020

Love on a Two Way Street

Regina McKenzie struggles with still living at home with her parents, juggling questionable career choices, and dating the wrong men. Love on a Two Way Street is a live stage play event that covers the entire emotional spectrum.

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.