Vanessa Williams

Vanessa Williams

Nascimento : 1963-05-12, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

História

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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Vanessa Williams
Vanessa Williams

Filmes

Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
Lucille
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
Carla
A traumatized rape victim finds therapy in a most disturbing way.
Mid-Century
Beverly Gordon
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
Eve Christmas
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
Aggie Maggy / Madison
Spoiled socialite will learn a lesson after her father asks her to work in a family homeless center.
A Lenda de Candyman
Anne-Marie McCoy
Em um bairro pobre de Chicago, a lenda de um espírito assassino conhecido como Candyman assolou a população anos atrás. Agora, o local foi renovado e é lar de cidadãos de alta classe. Quando o espírito retorna, os novos habitantes também serão obrigados a enfrentar a ira de Candyman.
Love on a Two Way Street
Gloria
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.
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
Rebecca
A man in a committed relationship turns his love life upside-down when he accepts a $50,000 bet about getting a date with his celebrity crush.
One Fine Christmas
Susan
The families on Christmas Street have been so busy with their day-to-day lives that they lose sight of the importance of family during the holiday season.
Thriller
Mrs. Walker
Years after a childhood prank goes horribly wrong, a clique of South Central LA teens find themselves terrorized during Homecoming weekend by a killer hell-bent on revenge.
Crossed the Line
Juice
A young woman refuses to bow down to the local criminal kingpin who wants to take control of her late mother's flower shop in order to run drugs. However, when he crosses the line, she and her siblings seek revenge.
Raising Izzie
Tonya
Gertie and Izzie are two young girls on their own. Abandoned by their father and orphaned by their mother, they are doing the best they can to stay in school, stay undetected and stay together. With assistance from their mother before her passing, the girls are financially prepared to sustain themselves for some time. Gertie, 14, takes seriously, her charge to raise her younger sister Izzie, 10, alone. Greg and Tonya are a couple whose love for one another radiates and for some time now, they have attempted to build a family and have failed. Tonya longs to share the love and nurturing she has been channeling through her job as a teacher, into children of her own. Is it God’s will that they don’t have children?
Sugar Mommas
Lynn
Sisters Sheila and Lynn have little in common except their love for sweets. In need of a change, they partner with their close friend Tommi to open a bakery.
Imagine Só
Lori Strother
Evan (Eddie Murphy) é um executivo de finanças que já não consegue mais controlar o declínio vertiginoso de sua carreira. Desesperado e sem saber o que fazer, decide ouvir sua filha pequena, que o convida a penetrar em seu mundo imaginário. É quando Evan vai começar a encontrar vários caminhos para resolver seus problemas.
Contradictions of the Heart
Lea
A party chasing chick pounds on a restaurant door after closing. The closing manager opens it and the journey this encounter creates, places contradicting questions at the door step of race, friendship and sex.
Flertando aos 40
Kristine
Jackie é uma recém divorciada, mãe de dois filhos que viaja para o Havaí para comemorar os seus 40 anos. O amor chega novamente e com ele muitas e novas decisões a serem tomadas.
Ice Spiders
Dr. April Sommers
When a young ski team training for the Olympics arrives at the remote and isolated Lost Mountain Ski Resort to focus on training, they're thrilled to find a retired Olympic skier is there to help them train. But their plans are halted when a scientist working at a nearby government lab arrives with the horrifying news that a top secret Government project has produced giant spiders and they have escaped, killing and eating everything in sight.
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
(voice)
Today there are more reasons than ever for families to explore and celebrate diversity. Our ever-expanding world is full of differences in abilities, socioeconomic backgrounds, family structures, religious faiths, interests and cultures. This documentary introduces your family to children who are not only celebrating how they are unique, but who are also learning from and appreciating the differences in others.
Black Listed
J.W.
Alan Chambers (Townsend) is a lawyer and sick of his job. He corrals his friends into forming a vigilante group. Everyone goes along with it at first, until it turns sour and innocent people start dying, and Alan is the only one left standing.
Our America
Sandra Williams
The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.
Like Mike
Pharmacist
Calvin e os seus amigos, que vivem todos num orfanato, encontram umas sapatilhas velhas com as letras desbotadas MJ penduradas num cabo de electricidade. Numa noite de tempestade, eles vão tentar apanhar as sapatilhas quando Calvin e as sapatilhas são atingidos por um raio. Calvin tem agora poderes inacreditáveis ​​de basquetebol e com eles a hipótese de jogar na NBA.
Playing with Fire
Riana Roberts
A woman (Vanessa Williams) tries to save her sister (Tangi Miller), who stole a priceless African statue with her lover.
Incognito
Wilhelmina Hunter
A rape victim continues to be stalked by the man who attacked her. Her fiancé is no help, so her father hires a bodyguard to protect her.
Mãe é Mãe
Donna
Depois de dois casamentos fracassados, o escritor de ficção científica John Henderson (Albert Brooks) decide se aproximar mais da mãe. O motivo de sua ação, no entanto, não é nada nobre. Para John, se ele receber uma polpuda herança, poderá ser mais bem-sucedido nos relacionamentos. Determinado em reaproximar-se, ele se muda para a casa da mãe (Debbie Reynolds) e desencadeia uma série de situações hilárias.
Drop Squad
Mali
Controversial film about an underground organization that kidnaps and 'deprograms' African Americans who sell out or deny their cultural heritage. Spike Lee is the Executive Producer.
O Mistério de Candyman
Anne-Marie McCoy
Uma estudante decide provar que Candyman, uma lenda urbana, não existe. Ela, então, segue para o local de um crime brutal e o invoca. Para sua surpresa, ele surge iniciando horríveis assassinatos.
New Jack City: A Gangue Brutal
Keisha
Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes), um pequeno traficante de drogas, é convencido por um colega de gangue que a onda do futuro está em um derivado da cocaína, o crack. Nino vê o potencial do crack como negócio e se estabelece por conta própria, chefiando uma quadrilha e matando seus rivais até assumir um complexo de apartamentos. Para detê-lo surgem Scottie Appleton (Ice-T) e Nick Peretti (Judd Nelson), dois policiais disfarçados. Appleton quer pegar Nino, pois ele assassinou a mãe de Scottie como parte de uma iniciação de quadrilha. Também envolvido está Pookie (Chris Rock), um ex-viciado que também quer derrubar Nino.