Vanessa Williams
출생 : 1963-03-18, Tarrytown, New York, USA
약력
An American pop-R&B recording artist, producer, dancer, model, and actress. In 1983, she became the first woman of African-American descent to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal involving nude photographs caused her to relinquish her title early. Williams rebounded by launching a career as an entertainer, earning Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award nominations.
Williams released her debut album The Right Stuff in 1988, which spawned the hits "The Right Stuff," a #1 on Hot Dance Songs, and "Dreamin'," a #1 on R&B and #8 on Billboard Hot 100. Her second studio album, The Comfort Zone, in 1991 topped the Billboard R&B Album Chart, and spawned the number-one hit, "Save the Best for Last."
In 1994 she debuted on Broadway in the musical Kiss of the Spider Woman. In 1995 she recorded the Oscar-winner for Best Original Song, "Colors of the Wind," from the Disney animated feature film Pocahontas. It went on to reach #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Williams's first major movie role was as the star of the feature film Eraser in 1996. She also starred in the movies Soul Food, Dance with Me, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Shaft and Johnson Family Vacation.
From 2006 to 2010 she played the role of self-absorbed diva and former supermodel Wilhelmina Slater in the ABC comedy series Ugly Betty. In 2009, Williams released her eighth studio album, The Real Thing. In 2010 she joined the ensemble cast of the series Desperate Housewives as spoiled rich woman Renee Perry.
Patricia Chamberlain
Aspiring chef Lizzy sets off with her three best friends in tow to compete in the prestigious Saucy Food Festival. What begins as a calculated career move quickly turns into a madcap misadventure full of food, fun and female bonding, where the girls learn that struggle can be the secret ingredient to success.
With idiosyncratic style and an eye toward the future of fashion, Patricia Field has always been shaping culture. Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field brings us into the mind of the one-of-a-kind visionary and queer icon.
narrator
Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people, an unusual practice at the time, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.
Zora
1989년, 야심 찬 젊은 여성이 이미지에 집착하는 음악 방송계에서 성공하기 위해 헤어스타일을 바꾼다. 하지만 새로 심은 타인의 머리카락에 영혼이 있다는 사실을 알아차리고, 승승장구할 것만 같았던 음악 경력은 곧 대가를 치르게 된다.
Join us for a livestream concert series featuring singer and actress Vanessa Williams. Streamed live from New York’s Shubert Virtual Studios, the show will feature a mix of Broadway show tunes, pop songs, and personal stories from the Williams' life.
Jackie Chisolm
Story of a woman who wakes up on the morning of her 35th birthday and decides she wants to settle down and get married, so she goes on a series of hilarious dating encounters only to realize that the most important thing is for her to be comfortable in her own skin.
Sally Rae
A struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Unwilling to allow her son to stay in a dangerous school, she launches a movement that could save his future - and that of thousands like him.
Amanda Waller (voice)
한 소년이 유괴되고 몸값을 요구하는 킬러 크록과 배트맨의 한판 대결로 시작된다. 그 싸움의 와중에 돈가방을 살짝 빼간 이는 다름 아닌 캣우먼. 그녀를 쫓던 배트맨은 배트로프가 끊어지는 바람에 두개골 골절이라는 큰 부상을 입게 된다. 겨우 구출된 그를 수술하러 달려온 사람은 브루스의 어린시절 친구이자 저명한 의사인 토머스 엘리엇. 브루스와 토머스는 오랜만에 재회한다. 그리고 얼굴을 붕대로 감싼 미스테리의 인물 - 허쉬(HUSH)가 이 모든 과정을 조용히 지켜보고 있다.
Fire Goddess (voice)
After releasing a mythical monster upon the islands, a group of three young friends must use local legends to restore peace to their home.
Amanda Waller (voice)
태스크 포스 X팀이 파워풀하고 신비로운 물체를 훔치기위해 목숨을 건다.
Carolyn
14000년을 살아가는 남자의 일상과 그의 주변 인물들을 그린 SF 영화.
Self
A deep look at the class warfare and the contradictions that African-Americans face within their own community when many of them are ostracized because they are “not black enough.” An analysis of the reasons behind these absurd acts of hatred.
Beverly
Based on ReShonda Tate Billingsley's novel of the same name, The Secret She Kept, a successful magazine executive marries a driven lawyer, who's on the cusp of a major promotion, only to discover that his wife is severely bi-polar. The movie explores the meaning of love and the vow of "in sickness and in health."
Julie LaVerne
The landmark musical brought vividly to life by the New York Philharmonic, with an all-star cast led by Vanessa Williams, Julian Ovenden, Lauren Worsham, Norm Lewis, Jane Alexander and Fred Willard.
Jessie Mae Watts
Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house.
Vanessa Williams
할리 파이퍼는 한편의 인디영화로 할리우드의 샛별로 떠오르지만 계속되는 실패와 슬럼프로 6년 만에 인생 최대의 암흑기를 맞는다. 거기에 습관적 음주까지 더해 점점 폐인이 되어가던 어느 날 직접 영화를 제작하기로 굳게 결심하고 제 2의 전성기를 노리기로 한다. 남동생 라이언과 그의 친구 마이클의 도움을 받지만 머나먼 꿈일 뿐. 그러던 중 우연히 길에서 벤 스틸러를 만나고부터 뜻밖의 돌파구가 생기고, 이를 위해 벤 스틸러를 납치하고 제작비를 훔치는 등 갖가지 방법을 동원해 막무가내로 영화를 촬영해 나가는데... 과연 촬영을 무사히 마치고 대박 행진을 이뤄낼 수 있을까?
Janice
킴 카다시안은 아이비 리그 출신의 결혼중개 전문가이다. 영화는 '주인공인 유부녀의 외도'로 그녀의 가족의 삶을 잃게되는 비극적인 내용. 연기와도 같은 지나면 없어 질 스치는 감정의 선택이 얼마나 많이 남은 세월 ,사람들, 주인공 자신을 불행하게 하는지...
Regina Reynolds is a strong black woman in the truest sense -- but her taste for the good life doesn't necessarily include her husband, Marcus, or her daughter, Monica. It's going to take a mother's unconditional love to pray Regina down to earth.
Vita
마일리 스튜어트라는 이름의 10대 소녀가 록 스타 '한나 몬타나'라는 신분을 숨기고 살아가는 이야기를 다룬 디즈니 채널에서 방영되는 시트콤 의 영화 버전.
Julie
Successful New York journalist and single mom Julie Davidson's (Vanessa Williams) six-year old son Jake (Jeremy Gumbs) is acting up, so she finds his sperm-donor father Paul Cooper (Kevin Daniels), who's a struggling actor and law-school drop-out.
Support for the arts in America may be dwindling, but talent in our high schools isn't. Every year a group of the country's most gifted 17-year-old performing and visual artists - singled out among thousands of their peers - share a week of dreams as they learn from mentors like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Vanessa Williams, Jacques d'Amboise, Michael Tilson Thomas... and from each other. For seven transformative days, the passionate young artists revel in the support, encouragement and attention they have earned.
L'Tisha Morton
"My Brother" is an inner city story of two impoverished boys, Isaiah and James. James is developmentally disabled. Their mother, L'Tisha, finds herself in a tragic situation. Dying of tuberculosis, she desperately tries to get her two boys, eight and eleven at the time, adopted together. Finding that only Isaiah can be adopted. L'Tisha makes the only choice she feels she can make; creating an unbreakable bond of love between the boys, and hoping that bond will get them through life. Her prayers are answered as the boys overcome impossible odds on their way to adulthood, staying as close as ever as young men dealing with life's obstacles.
Witch (segment "Into the Woods")
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great musical performances from the archives of the Tony Award® broadcasts. Legendary stars from legendary shows strut their stuff in 23 performances that have become part of Broadway history.
Directed by Michael Stevens. With Michael McDonald, Phil McGraw, LeAnn Rimes, Ruben Studdard.
Self
An extremely unique celebration of Christmas for the young and hip and the young at heart.
Dorothy Johnson
Nate Johnson, a Los Angeles man estranged from his wife and three children, decides to reconnect with his family by taking them with him on a road trip to Missouri for a big family reunion.
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of Congress. These first-person anecdotes, ranging from the brutal to the bittersweet, have been brought to vivid life in this unique HBO documentary special, featuring the on-camera voices of over a dozen top African-American actors.
Hazel Scott
Harry J. Lennix stars as trailblazing and controversial African-American congressman and Civil Rights activist Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who started out as a preacher in Harlem and then went on to deal with such issues as the integration of schools in the 1940s and '50s. Vanessa Williams portrays his second wife, jazz singer Hazel Scott.
Self - Host
A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa Williams traces the struggles and triumphs of the superstars of music and film. Among the many artists featured are: Whitney Houston, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Ella Fitzgerald, and Little Richard, Also included are today's contemporary superstars: Snoop Dogg, Ice T, Quincy Jones, Spike Lee, Russell Simmons, and many, more! 80 minutes plus DVD bonus features.
Alicia (voice)
Songwriter Noel is struggling to write a hit song, and so he takes his frustrations out on his family. His daughter Dakota is granted one wih for doing a good deed and she wishes that her daddy will write a hit song. There is a sub-plot about kindness to animals that has almost nothing to do with the main story.
Ebony Scrooge
In this remake of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol", a cold-hearted superstar singer gets a reality check when she meets three Christmas spirits who would change her miserly ways for the better.
Herself
An extraordinary program of holiday music featuring special guest appearances and musical contributions by Vanessa Williams, Michael McDonald, David Sanborn, and introducing the artistry of Rob Mathes
Carmen Vasquez
돈 많은 아버지를 둔 월터 웨이드(크리스찬 베일)는 사소한 시비 끝에 젊은 흑인 학생을 살해하고 목격자마저 협박으로 함구시키나 형사 샤프트는 그를 구속한다. 그러나 월터는 보석으로 풀려나 여러 국가를 돌아다니며 도망다닌다. 2년 뒤 샤프트는 비밀리에 입국한 그를 다시 체포하나 월터는 다시 보석으로 석방되고 월터는 샤프트를 죽이려 한다. 그는 두 명의 샤프트의 동료 형사와 샤프트에게 모욕을 당한 바 있는 마약상을 고용한다. 이들의 음모로 샤프트는 경찰직에서 쫓겨나고 홀로 정의를 지키려 한다. 음모는 점점 그를 죄어들고 샤프트는 유일하게 사건 해결의 실마리를 쥐고 있는 살인 목격자인 미모의 여인을 추적하기 시작하는데...
Dulcinea / Aldonza
The classic tale of a man's dream, his epic journey, and one true love.
Executive Producer
In 19th century New Orleans creole Henriette must choose between love and devotion to the church. Neither choice is going to be easy, as there is great opposition to her ideas of breaking traditions.
Mother Henriette Delille
In 19th century New Orleans creole Henriette must choose between love and devotion to the church. Neither choice is going to be easy, as there is great opposition to her ideas of breaking traditions.
Self
Audrey McDonald
On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teachers come and go, resources are scant.
Queen of Trash
털이 보플거리는 낡은 푸른색 담요를 가장 사랑하는 엘모. 그의 제일 친한 친구 조이가 담요를 가져가서 돌려주지 않자 실랑이가 벌어지고, 담요는 세서미 스트리트로 날아가 버린다. 그리하여 엘모는 그 담요를 따라가 는데, 쓰레기통 바닥에서 갈가리 찢긴 담요를 발견하고 그걸 잡아당기다가 그만 세상에서 가장 역겨운 그라우 치랜드로 통하는 오색의 통로로 빨려 들어가게 된다. 엘모의 모험이 시작된 것이다.
Alexandra 'Alex' Torres
In the not too distant future, a new deadly sport is the only way to stop a war that will kill millions. Fix is the creator of the sport, but the spotlight has always been on Ramzey. Now this hothead must use the game to stop the Revolution.
Ruby Sinclair
미국 휴스턴의 조그마한 댄스교습소. 텅 빈 홀에서 열심히 스텝연습을 하고 있는 루비(바네사 L. 윌리엄스). 남편에게 버림받은 상처로 사랑에 대한 믿음을 잃어버린 루비는 오직 '국제 라틴 댄스 경연대회' 우승에 집착하고 있다. 어느날 쿠바 청년 라파엘(샤이안)이 댄스 교습소에 찾아온다. 어머니의 유언대로 아버지를 찾아 이국 땅에 온 그는 댄스 교습소에서 일을 시작하며 루비에게 생의 활력을 되찾아준다. 얼음처럼 차가워졌던 루비의 마음은 라파엘의 자유로움과 정열로 조금씩 녹기 시작한다. 그러던 중 우연히 라틴 댄스 홀에 같이 간 루비와 라파엘. 루비는 서 쿠바 살사춤을 추는 라파엘에게서 음악과 하나된 아름다운 동작을 보고 감흥을 받는다. 늘 정해진 룰 속에서 완벽한 스텝을 구사하던 루비는 차츰 스텝에 얽매이지 않고 음악을 느끼면서 춤을 추게 된다. 루비는 라파엘의 배웅을 받으며 댄스 경연대회가 열리는 라스베가스로 떠난다.
Self
Pavarotti And Friends for the Children of Liberia
Teri
아마드(브랜든 해몬드 분)의 가족은 언제나 일요일 저녁이면 함께 모여 식사를 한다. 집안의 오랜 전통이 된 이 모임은 어린 손자 아마드에게 빅 마마로 불리우는 조(아이마 P. 홀 분)가 만들어 온 것이다. 그녀는 맛있는 음식을 준비하고, 같이 식사를 하면서 가족들의 고민을 들어주고 사려깊은 조언을 아끼지 않는다. 조는 때론 누구보다 강한 어머니로, 때론 따뜻하고 자상한 할머니로 가족들에게 있어 든든한 닻과 같은 존재였다. 어느날, 남편의 외도로 마음에 상처를 입은 테리(바넷사 윌리암스)는 혼란에 빠지고 그런 그녀를 지켜보는 맥신(비비카 폭스 분)과 버드(니아 롱 분) 또한 고민에 빠진다. 더구나 어머니 조가 병으로 갑자기 쓰러지자 지지대를 잃어버린 자매들은 각자의 엇갈린 이해 속에서 갈등하게 된다. 맥신과 아마드는 가족들을 다시 이어줄 소중한 사랑을 되찾기 위해 일요일 저녁식사 모임을 준비하는데...
Francine Hughes (as Vanessa L. Williams)
1934년 할렘, '싱싱 교도소'를 막 출감한 엘스워스 "범피" 존슨은 옛 동료들에게 다시 돌아온다. 그가 돌아온 할렘에서는 잔인한 악당 갱스터 더치 슐츠가 무력으로 복권사업을 갈취하려고 혈안이 되어 있다. 더치일당은 루치아노와 내기를 걸고 불법 복권으로 부를 이룬, 할렘가의 대모 마담 퀸의 정책적인 빌미를 잡아 법적 문제를 일으킨다. 마담 퀸의 하수인으로 신임을 얻고 있던 범피는 더치와 루치아노의 싸움에 말려든 퀸이 체포되어 구속되자 그녀의 권한을 일임받게 된다. 퀸은 평화를 추구하는 사람이었던 반면 범피는 무력과 약삭빠른 지혜로 세력을 확장시켜 나간다. 더치와 루치아노를 사이에 두고 서로 싸우게 만들어 자신은 살짝 빠지고 그들을 함정에 몰아넣는다. 범피는 할렘가 거리를 온통 피바다로 만드는 거대한 전쟁을 일으키는데...
Lee Cullen
존 크루거(아놀드 슈워제네거)는 국가 기밀의 중요한 단서를 알고 있는 증인이 위험에 처할 경우 증인의 목숨을 구하고 그의 모든 과거 기록을 '지워버리는(이레이저)' 연방 경찰 증인 보호 프로그램 전문가이다. 한편 무기 제조업체의 중역인 리 컬른(바네사 윌리엄스)은 무기 제조업체가 정부 고위층과 짜고 국제 테러 조직에 신무기를 팔아 넘긴다는 정보를 입수해 FBI에 알린다. 위기에 처한 그녀는 자신의 존재 기록을 지우기 위해 크루거에게 도움을 청한다.
Rose Alvarez
In 1995, ABC presented a telemovie version of the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie produced by RHI Entertainment. It starred Seinfeld's Jason Alexander and Vanessa Williams of Desperate Housewives. While this version remained mostly faithful to the original musical (Michael Stewart remains the only credited author of this version), several songs were added and re-arranged, and dialogue was slightly rewritten to smoothly facilitate the musical changes. The musical revolves around an Elvis Presley-type rocker who's about to join the Army. To mark the occasion, his manager's secretary arranges for him to kiss a random fan goodbye on The Ed Sullivan Show. Bye Bye Birdie earned four Tony awards in 1961, including Best Musical and Best Actor in a Musical for its original star, Dick Van Dyke. In addition to Alexander and Williams, ABC's production starred Tyne Daly, George Wendt, Chynna Phillips and Mark Kudisch.
Dr. Kathy 'Kat' Hunter
Story of the personal lives and careers of three female doctors, from different backgrounds and walks of life, who work at a San Francisco county hospital.
47 minute comedic parody with Professor N. Likeflynn (Martin Keegan) offers dating advice on how to score with hot chicks and older women. Consists short clips of music videos, and examples of how to hit on women.
Pauline
As the Harlem Renaissance flourishes in jazzy New York City, Pauline, Esther and Alice struggle to survive. By day, they toil at dreary jobs, dreaming of stardom, riches and happiness. By night, they dance their troubles away at the famous Savoy Ballroom. But when World War II appears on the horizon, the girls find their fortunes unfolding too unevenly to reconcile, and they inevitably begin to drift apart.
Lulu Daniels
시대배경은 1996년, 앞으로 다가올 미래의 황량한 아리조나주. 할리는 삐죽삐죽 솟은 짧은 머리에 오렌지빛 나는 검은 쟈켓과 진바지처럼 잘 어울리는 가죽바지를 입은 모습으로 아리조나주에 나타난다. 문신으로 가득찬 팔과 히피족들에게나 어울릴 것 같은 철목걸이를 한 할리는 말수적은 부랑아로 그곳에서 우연히 떠돌이 카우보이 말보로를 만나 일대행각을 벌인다.
Gloria
George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognise George as a missing millionaire, Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation.
Lynette Parks
In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and his traveling musician dad is deemed unfit to care for him, being on the road too much. Now, the only thing that can help is if a cold, bureaucratic adoption agency caseworker sees the error of her ways and allows them to be together.
Terri Knight
Perry Mason defends the husband of a famous rock singer who was found being killed after having had a tremendous discussion with her husband and her manager.
Valentine Hayward
A high-priced call girl who has been secretly videotaping her rich clients is shot to death. An investigation of her murder ensues, bringing those involved into the underground world of pornography and prostitution.
Samantha Richards
A St. Louis cop, Mike Braxton (Sam Jones), receives an urgent call for help from his brother Tony (Nick Cassavetes), a small time thief in Los Angeles. Mike rushes to LA and finds that his brother has been murdered and his brother Tony's girlfriend gunned down right in front of him. Mike quickly learns Tony was a courier for an arms smuggler, Simon Stone (John Russell). When Mike meets Stone's lawyer, Samantha Richardson (Vanessa Williams), the two team up to bring down Stone's arms smuggling empire. However, Mike's infatuation with Samantha keeps putting them in greater danger.
Rae, Girl with Dog
바람둥이 잭은 우연히 클럽에서 남자들과 심하게 다투는 랜디를 보게된 후, 그녀에게 끌린다. 그녀가 박물관 가이드로 일한다는 사실을 알게된 잭은 그녀의 뒤를 쫓게 되고 그녀가 곤경에 처해있다는 사실을 알게되고, 도와주기로 마음먹는다. 랜디도 잭이 싫지는 않지만 그가 도와주겠다는 제의는 거절한다. 그리고 빚진 돈을 갚기 위해 카지노로 가지만 수중에 있던 돈을 또다시 모두 잃고만다. 잭은 자신의 차를 팔아 역시 도박을 해서 웬디의 빚을 갚아주는데...
