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Vanessa Estelle Williams

1963 - Today

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Vanessa Estelle Williams (born May 12, 1963) is an American actress and producer. She is best known for her roles as Maxine Joseph–Chadway in the Showtime drama series, Soul Food (2000–2004), for which she received NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series and as Nino Brown's feisty gun moll, Keisha in the 1991 crime drama film, New Jack City. Williams is also known for her role as Anne-Marie McCoy in the first and fourth of the Candyman films, and as Rhonda Blair in the first season of the Fox prime time soap opera, Melrose Place (1992–93). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Vanessa Estelle Williams is the 6,454th most popular actor (up from 10,477th in 2024), the 9,991st most popular biography from United States (up from 15,227th in 2019) and the 2,973rd most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Vanessa Estelle Williams ranks 6,454 out of 13,578Before her are Madelaine Petsch, Hayden Panettiere, Jaaved Jaaferi, Padmini, Norma Varden, and Christopher Heyerdahl. After her are Lee Yo-won, Richard M. Sherman, Noriko Hidaka, Olivia Harrison, Edgar Kennedy, and Yum Jung-ah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Vanessa Estelle Williams ranks 417Before her are Denniz Pop, Domenico Battaglia, Larry the Cable Guy, Franck Dubosc, Jaaved Jaaferi, and Christopher Heyerdahl. After her are Sylvain Chomet, Armin Schwarz, Viktar Babaryka, Milan Luhový, Lori Petty, and Rand Paul.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vanessa Estelle Williams ranks 9,993 out of 20,380Before her are Charles Hartshorne (1897), MC Ren (1969), Norman Greenbaum (1942), Norman Granz (1918), Kathy Hochul (1958), and Robert Elswit (1950). After her are George Clymer (1739), Beatrix Loughran (1900), Erik Prince (1969), Richard M. Sherman (1928), Sam Altman (1985), and Alvin Sargent (1927).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Vanessa Estelle Williams ranks 2,974Before her are Ira Aldridge (1807), Donald Gibb (1954), Charles Stanton Ogle (1865), Elle Fanning (1998), Madelaine Petsch (1994), and Hayden Panettiere (1989). After her are Richard M. Sherman (1928), Olivia Harrison (1948), Edgar Kennedy (1890), Ben Feldman (1980), Charlotte Mineau (1886), and Estelle Reiner (1914).