Vanessa Williams
b. 1963 (age 63)
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Actress
Director
Vanessa A. Williams (born May 12, 1963) is an American actress who has appeared in numerous television series. She is best known for her roles as Anne-Marie McCoy in the 1992 horror film Candyman and Rhonda Blair in the first season of the television soap opera, Melrose Place. In 1995, she was also a series regular in the television series Murder One. 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 (TV series), while Vanessa L. Williams starred in the original film Soul Food (film).
Known For
Filmography
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★ 4.1
Wild Rose
2026 Actress
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★ 5.5
Angie's Cure
2025 Actress
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★ 6.4
The Couch: Black Girl Erupted
2023 Actress
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★ 6.0
Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story
2022 Actress
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★ 5.1
Welcome to the Christmas Family Reunion
2021 Actress
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★ 8.0
A Luv Tale: The Series
2021 Actress
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Start Your Day with Sharon + Mike
2021 Self
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★ 5.9
Candyman
2020 Actress
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★ 6.7
Singleholic
2020 Actress
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★ 6.1
One Fine Christmas
2019 Actress
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★ 7.3
I Left My Girlfriend for Regina Jones
2019 Actress
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★ 8.3
40 and Single
2018 Actress
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★ 6.7
Famous in Love
2017 Actress
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★ 6.1
The Secret She Kept
2016 Actress
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Love Had Everything to Do with It
2016 Actress
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★ 2.8
Oprah's Master Class: Civil Rights Special
2015 Self
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Ward of the State
2015 Actress
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★ 5.1
Men, Money & Gold Diggers
2014 Actress
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The Last Piece
2014 Actress
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And Then...
2013 Actress
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In the Company of Friends
2013 Self
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The Get Away
2013 Actress
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★ 6.8
Raising Izzie
2012 Actress
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★ 5.3
Sugar Mommas
2012 Actress
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★ 6.5
Tim Alexander's A Mother's Love
2011 Actress
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★ 5.6
Imagine That
2009 Actress
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Washington Watch with Roland Martin
2009 Self
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★ 5.6
Knight Rider
2008 Actress
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★ 5.8
Flirting with Forty
2008 Actress
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★ 6.6
Hummingbird
2008 Actress
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★ 3.2
Ice Spiders
2007 Actress
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★ 8.6
Drawing Angel
2007 Actress
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★ 8.7
Gift for the Living
2005 Actress
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★ 8.0
Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2004 Actress
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★ 6.5
Dense
2004 Director
Writer
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★ 8.6
Allergic to Nuts
2003 Actress
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★ 6.8
Our America
2002 Actress
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★ 7.7
Soul Food
2000 Actress
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★ 7.1
Punks
2000 Actress
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★ 5.4
Acapulco Black Film Festival
2000 Self
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★ 6.2
Playing with Fire
2000 Actress
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★ 7.0
Incognito
1999 Actress
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★ 6.5
Breakdown
1997 Actress
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A Woman of Color
1997 Actress
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★ 6.9
Mother
1996 Actress
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★ 5.8
Buddies
1996 Actress
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★ 5.0
Drop Squad
1994 Actress
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★ 6.7
Candyman
1992 Actress
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The Jaleel White Special
1992 Self
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Live! Dick Clark Presents
1988 Self
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Again Comes the Rain
Actress
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Phenom
Actress