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Vanessa Williams is a Actor and Director American born on 12 may 1963 at New York City (USA)
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).
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Vanessa Williams
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).
Biography
Williams was born in New York City. In an ABC News interview, she stated that her background is from a family of slaves from Georgia and Virginia. In 1993, she met Andre Wiseman and they began dating, then married in Stuyvesant, New York. They have two children together, sons Omar Tafari Wiseman and Haile Zion Ali Wiseman. Williams is now married to her former Melrose Place (1992) co-star John Marshall Jones, who is stepfather to her two sons from her marriage to Andre Wiseman. Williams and Jones have a child together: John Marshall Jones Jr.Usually with
Filmography of Vanessa Williams (12 films)
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Imagine That (2009)
, 1h47Directed by Karey Kirkpatrick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Marin Hinkle, Nicole Ari Parker, Yara Shahidi, Ronny Cox
Roles Lori Strother
Rating56%
Evan Danielson (Eddie Murphy) is a very successful financial advisor, who had been working at the same securities firm for eight years as their top account manager, that is until Johnny Whitefeather (Thomas Haden Church) was hired as his rival. Whitefeather seems to have the whole company under some spell as he spiels his nonsensical idioms filled with Native American mumbo jumbo. These top executives seem more content with chanting Indian style noises rather than listen to how they can make money through sound investments. When Evan finally discovers that his daughter, Olivia (Yara Shahidi), is somehow able to tell the future within the financial world by using her 'goo-gaa' comfort blanket and her imaginary friends (Queen Qwali and Princesses Kupida, Sopida and Mopida), he discovers he has an invaluable upper hand now at the office.
Flirting with Forty (2008)
, 1h27Directed by Mikael Salomon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Christmas films
Actors Heather Locklear, Robert Buckley, Vanessa Williams, Cameron Bancroft, Chelah Horsdal, Stefanie von Pfetten
Roles Kristine
Rating56%
Jackie est une femme divorcée, décoratrice d'intérieur vivant à Denver. Elle a deux enfants et, pendant les fêtes de Noël, sa meilleure amie Kristine lui offre un voyage à Hawaï. Un voyage sans enfants qui va lui permettre de rencontrer un beau moniteur de surf, Kyle. Mais, une fois le retour venu, il est difficile de maintenir une relation amoureuse à distance malgré plusieurs allers-et-retours.
Ice Spiders (2007)
, 1h26Directed by Tibor Takács
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Natural horror films, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Patrick Muldoon, Vanessa Williams, Thomas Calabro, David Millbern, Noah Bastian, Stephen J. Cannell
Roles Dr. April Sommers
Rating32%
Dan "Dash" Dashiell (Patrick Muldoon) is a retired Olympic skier who works at a ski resort in the mountains of Utah. On a restricted side of the mountain, Dr. April Sommers (Vanessa A. Williams) is working on creating a new breed of spider with several others. When a group of teen skiers arrives at the mountain, Chad (Noah Bastian) challenges Dash to a race. The two show some impressive moves as the others look on. When Dash reaches a large rocky slope, he turns back and goes down another way rather than risk a leg injury like the one that ruined his career. As Dash makes it to the bottom, he meets Dr. Sommers. While they talk for a while, Frank (Stephen J. Cannell) takes the teens inside the resort. After a brief discussion, Dr. Sommers returns to the lab, where she finds dead scientists everywhere. She finds the sole survivor cocooned in a spider web. He warns Dr. Sommers about the spiders escaping and then slowly dies. When she turns to leave, the last spider remaining at the lab, a mutated Black Widow, attacks her and forces her into a locked office. She finds an alarm and engages it, which alerts Professor Marks (David Millbern) and Army Captain Baker (Thomas Calabro), who are elsewhere on the mountain, to her location.
Black Listed (2003)
, 1h35Directed by Robert Townsend
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Robert Townsend, Harry Lennix, Vanessa Williams, Dick Anthony Williams, Heavy D, Victoria Rowell
Roles J.W.
Rating54%
Lawyer Alan Chambers (Robert Townsend) grows tired of watching criminals being released and takes it upon himself to create a list of criminals he feels should be put to death. He sends it to his closest friends, only to find later that the killing has already begun without his involvement.
Our America (2002)
Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Josh Charles, Brandon Hammond, Irma P. Hall, Peter Paige, Vanessa Williams, Mykelti Williamson
Rating67%
Like Mike (2002)
, 1h39Directed by John Schultz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Sports films, Basketball films, Documentary films about sports, Children's films
Actors Shad Moss, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki, Robert Forster, Crispin Glover, Jesse Plemons
Roles Pharmacist
Rating54%
Calvin Cambridge is a teenage orphan whose two best friends, Murph and Reg Stevens, are also orphans. At night they have to sell chocolate for a greedy orphanage director, Stan Bittleman, (Crispin Glover) after each home game of the Los Angeles Knights.
Punks (2000)
, 1h31Directed by Patrik-Ian Polk
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Seth Gilliam, Dwight Ewell, Renoly Santiago, Rockmond Dunbar, Jazzmun, Rudolf Martin
Roles Jennifer
Rating68%
Mother (1997)
, 1h44Directed by Albert Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about families, Psychologie, Psychanalyse
Actors Debbie Reynolds, Paul Collins, Albert Brooks, Rob Morrow, Vanessa Williams, Isabel Glasser
Roles Donna
Rating68%
John Henderson (Albert Brooks) is a successful science fiction writer who is finalizing his second divorce. Perplexed by the issues he has with women, John decides to initiate a project that will help him understand what went wrong in his relationships—he moves back in with his mother (Debbie Reynolds), occupying the same bedroom he had as a child.
Soul Food (1997)
, 1h55Directed by George Tillman Jr., George Tillman, Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Cooking films
Actors Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Vanessa Williams, Michael Beach, Nia Long, Mekhi Phifer
Roles Teri
Rating69%
Soul Food is told through the eyes of 11-year-old Ahmad (Hammond), follows the trials of the Joseph family, a close-knit Chicago family that gets together to have Sunday dinner every week, with plenty of soul food to go around. Mother (Big Mama) Joe (Hall) has three daughters, who each have had varying success in life: oldest daughter Teri (Williams) has become a successful lawyer, but has a strained relationship with younger sister Maxine (Fox) who stole and eventually married Teri's former boyfriend, Kenny (Sams). Teri is currently married to Miles (Beach), a lawyer who quit his job to pursue his dream of being an R&B musician, which Teri doesn't support. Youngest daughter Robin (Long)—nicknamed "Bird"—has just opened a barbershop/beauty parlor, and is married to Lem (Phifer), an ex-convict.
Candyman (1992)
, 1h39Directed by Bernard Rose
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about music and musicians, Ghost films, Serial killer films, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Vanessa Williams, Kasi Lemmons, Bernard Rose
Roles Anne-Marie McCoy
Rating66%
Helen Lyle, a graduate student, conducts research on urban legends, and, in the process, learns of a local legend known as Candyman. The legend claims that Candyman can be summoned by saying his name five times while facing a mirror, whereupon he will murder the summoner with his hook-hand. Later that evening, Helen and her friend Bernadette, skeptical of Candyman's existence, call Candyman's name into the mirror in Helen's bathroom, but nothing happens.
New Jack City (1991)
, 1h37Directed by Mario Van Peebles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson, Russell Wong, Allen Payne
Roles Keisha; a female gang member of the CMB.
Rating65%
Nino Brown and his gang, the Cash Money Brothers, become the dominant drug ring in New York City once crack cocaine is introduced to the streets during the late 1980s. His gang consists of his best friend, Gee Money; enforcer Duh Duh Duh Man; gun moll Keisha; Nino's girlfriend, Selina, and her tech-savvy cousin, Kareem. Nino converts the Carter, an apartment complex, into a crack house. Gee Money and Keisha kill rival Fat Smitty, the CMB throws out the tenants, and Nino forces the landlord out onto the streets naked. Undercover detective Scotty Appleton attempts to make a deal with stick-up kid Pookie, but Pookie runs off with the money. Scotty chases Pookie and shoots him in the leg, but the police let him go.
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Dense (2004)
, 35minutesDirected by Vanessa Williams
Origin USA
Actors Lanei Chapman, Michael Ralph, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Yolonda Ross
A man gives his girlfriend an ultimatum: to drop her career to start a family or he will leave her. She begins to question the relationship realizing maybe she was dense.