Biography
Vanessa Estelle Williams, also credited as Vanessa A. Williams, is an American actress and producer. She was born on 12 May 1963 in New York City and raised in Brooklyn.
She is known for her role as Anne-Marie McCoy in the horror film Candyman (1992) and its 2021 sequel, as Keisha in New Jack City (1991), and as Maxine Joseph–Chadway in the television series Soul Food (2000–2004), for which she received an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series. Other credits include Rhonda Blair in the first season of Melrose Place (1992–93).
