Vanessa Williams

Vanessa Williams

1963-03-18 Tarrytown, New York, USA 68 Credits

Biography

An American pop-R&B recording artist, producer, dancer, model, and actress. In 1983, she became the first woman of African-American descent to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal involving nude photographs caused her to relinquish her title early. Williams rebounded by launching a career as an entertainer, earning Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award nominations. Williams released her debut album The Right Stuff in 1988, which spawned the hits "The Right Stuff," a #1 on Hot Dance Songs, and "Dreamin...

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Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field

2024

as Self

Acting

Enter the colorful world of Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated Patricia Field, the costume designer behind Sex and the City, Emily in Paris, Ugly Betty, an...

The Little Pageant That Could

The Little Pageant That Could

2024

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

A documentary that chronicles the journey of L.A.’s “Best in Drag Show” to support the Alliance for Housing and Healing. The event, which started as a...

Tripped Up

Tripped Up

2023

as Patricia Chamberlain

5.1
Acting

Aspiring chef Lizzy sets off with her three best friends in tow to compete in the prestigious Saucy Food Festival. What begins as a calculated career ...

Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best

Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best

2023

as Self

2.0
Acting

Enjoy a revue of milestone Broadway shows and songs from 1973 to 2023 hosted by two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster. Features performances by And...

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

2023

as Narrator (voice)

5.0
Acting

Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She wou...

Show of Titles

Show of Titles

2021

as "Dear World" Performer

Acting

An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best.

Bad Hair

Bad Hair

2021

as Zora

5.8
Acting

In 1989, an ambitious young woman gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career ma...

Vanessa Williams: Live From the West Side

Vanessa Williams: Live From the West Side

2020

Acting

Join us for a livestream concert series featuring singer and actress Vanessa Williams. Streamed live from New York’s Shubert Virtual Studios, the show...

There She Is

There She Is

2020

Acting

The film examines the "who" and "why" of women and girls in beauty pageants, emphasizing the #MeToo era. It examines the good (pageants for the disabl...

Singleholic

Singleholic

2020

as Jackie Chisolm

2.0
Acting

Story of a woman who wakes up on the morning of her 35th birthday and decides she wants to settle down and get married, so she goes on a series of hil...

Miss Virginia

Miss Virginia

2019

as Sally Rae

8.2
Acting

A struggling inner-city mother sacrifices everything to give her son a good education. Unwilling to allow her son to stay in a dangerous school, she l...

Batman: Hush

Batman: Hush

2019

as Amanda Waller (voice)

7.2
Acting

A mysterious new villain known only as Hush uses a gallery of villains to destroy Batman's crime-fighting career as well as Bruce Wayne's personal lif...

The Legend of Hallowaiian

The Legend of Hallowaiian

2018

as Fire Goddess (voice)

8.1
Acting

After releasing a mythical monster upon the islands, a group of three young friends must use local legends to restore peace to their home.

Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay

Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay

2018

as Amanda Waller (voice)

7.1
Acting

It’s batter up at Belle Reve and that can only mean that Amanda Waller, the penitentiary’s cold and calculating warden, has a mission that only the da...

The Man from Earth: Holocene

The Man from Earth: Holocene

2017

as Carolyn

5.5
Acting

14,000-year-old "Man from Earth" John Oldman, now teaching in northern California, realizes that not only is he finally starting to age, but four stud...

Not Black Enough

Not Black Enough

2017

as Self

7.7
Acting

A deep look at the class warfare and the contradictions that African-Americans face within their own community when many of them are ostracized becaus...

VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night

VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night

2016

as Self

Acting

VH1’s beloved Divas franchise made its return after a four-year hiatus with a holiday spin. The Unsilent Night special, airing on December 5, 2016, br...

The Secret She Kept

The Secret She Kept

2016

as Beverly

6.8
Acting

Based on ReShonda Tate Billingsley's novel of the same name, The Secret She Kept, a successful magazine executive marries a driven lawyer, who's on th...

Show Boat

Show Boat

2015

as Julie LaVerne

Acting

The landmark musical brought vividly to life by the New York Philharmonic, with an all-star cast led by Vanessa Williams, Julian Ovenden, Lauren Worsh...

The Trip to Bountiful

The Trip to Bountiful

2014

as Jessie Mae Watts

5.9
Acting

Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forb...

He's Way More Famous Than You

He's Way More Famous Than You

2013

as Vanessa Williams

4.0
Acting

When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she finally realizes that so...

Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor

Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor

2013

as Janice

6.6
Acting

Judith has known her husband Brice since they were children, but now their marriage is growing stale. Having just completed her graduate work in psych...

A Mother's Love

A Mother's Love

2011

as Rochelle Richardson

Acting

Regina Reynolds is a strong black woman in the truest sense -- but her taste for the good life doesn't necessarily include her husband, Marcus, or her...

Hannah Montana: The Movie

Hannah Montana: The Movie

2009

as Vita

6.6
Acting

When Miley Stewart (aka pop-star Hannah Montana) gets too caught up in the superstar celebrity lifestyle, her dad decides it's time for a total change...

And Then Came Love

And Then Came Love

2007

as Julie

5.9
Acting

Successful New York journalist and single mom Julie Davidson's six-year old son Jake is acting up, so she finds his sperm-donor father Paul Cooper, wh...

Rehearsing a Dream

2006

as Self

Acting

Support for the arts in America may be dwindling, but talent in our high schools isn't. Every year a group of the country's most gifted 17-year-old pe...

My Brother

My Brother

2006

as L'Tisha Morton

4.7
Acting

"My Brother" is an inner city story of two impoverished boys, Isaiah and James. James is developmentally disabled. Their mother, L'Tisha, finds hersel...

Gift for the Living

Gift for the Living

2005

as Narrator

Acting

Inspired by the O. Henry short story "Gift of the Magi", Gift for the Living is a story about a grandmother and her granddaughter who, without the oth...

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

2005

as Witch (segment "Into the Woods") (archive footage)

7.2
Acting

Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great m...

Christmas in Washington

Christmas in Washington

2004

2.0
Acting

Directed by Michael Stevens. With Michael McDonald, Phil McGraw, LeAnn Rimes, Ruben Studdard.

The 7th Annual Soul Train Christmas Starfest

The 7th Annual Soul Train Christmas Starfest

2004

as Self

Acting

An extremely unique celebration of Christmas for the young and hip and the young at heart.

Johnson Family Vacation

Johnson Family Vacation

2004

as Dorothy Johnson

5.5
Acting

Nate Johnson, a Los Angeles man estranged from his wife and three children, decides to reconnect with his family by taking them with him on a road tri...

Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?

Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?

2004

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

Come one, come all for Sesame Street's 35th anniversary musical gathering! Is there one song the whole world can sing together? Find out when Super Gr...

101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment

101 Most Shocking Moments in Entertainment

2003

Acting

From Disturbing Discoveries to Astonishing Arressts, and Tragic Endings. In this tv-special, E! countdowns the greatest moments in the entertainment i...

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003

4.8
Acting

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors wer...

Keep the Faith, Baby

Keep the Faith, Baby

2002

as Hazel Scott

5.0
Acting

Harry J. Lennix stars as trailblazing and controversial African-American congressman and Civil Rights activist Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who started ou...

It's Black Entertainment

It's Black Entertainment

2002

as Self - Host

8.0
Acting

A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa Willi...

Santa, Baby!

Santa, Baby!

2001

as Alicia (voice)

3.8
Acting

Songwriter Noel is struggling to write a hit song, and so he takes his frustrations out on his family. His daughter Dakota is granted one wih for doin...

WW3

WW3

2001

as M.J. Blake (as Vanessa L. Williams)

5.3
Acting

Terrorists release a deadly biological-warfare virus in the United States.

A Diva's Christmas Carol

A Diva's Christmas Carol

2000

as Ebony Scrooge

6.1
Acting

In this remake of Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol", a cold-hearted superstar singer gets a reality check when she meets three Christmas sp...

Christmas is Coming: Rob Mathes & Very Special Friends

2000

as Herself

10.0
Acting

An extraordinary program of holiday music featuring special guest appearances and musical contributions by Vanessa Williams, Michael McDonald, David S...

Afrocentricity

2000

as Self

Acting

On the surface, this collection of shorts by up-and-coming African American filmmakers arrived at a perfect time. The cutting-edge products of the New...

Shaft

Shaft

2000

as Carmen Vasquez

6.0
Acting

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail...

Don Quixote

Don Quixote

2000

as Dulcinea / Aldonza

6.2
Acting

Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a ...

The Courage to Love

The Courage to Love

2000

as Mother Henriette Delille

6.4
Acting

In 19th century New Orleans, creole Henriette must choose between love and devotion to the church. Neither choice is going to be easy, as there is gre...

The Courage to Love

The Courage to Love

2000

Executive Producer

6.4
Producing

In 19th century New Orleans, creole Henriette must choose between love and devotion to the church. Neither choice is going to be easy, as there is gre...

Shaft: Still the Man

2000

as Self

6.0
Acting
Light It Up

Light It Up

1999

as Audrey McDonald

6.6
Acting

On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, cla...

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland

1999

as Queen of Trash

6.3
Acting

Elmo loves his fuzzy, well-worn blue blanket more than anything in the whole world. However, when Elmo's blanket gets sucked through a colorful, swirl...

Futuresport

Futuresport

1999

as Alexandra 'Alex' Torres

4.2
Acting

In the not too distant future, a new deadly sport is the only way to stop a war that will kill millions. Fix is the creator of the sport, but the spot...

Dance with Me

Dance with Me

1998

as Ruby Sinclair

6.9
Acting

Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't kn...

Pavarotti & Friends - For the Children of Liberia

Pavarotti & Friends - For the Children of Liberia

1998

as Self

Acting

The Pavarotti & Friends for the Children of Liberia was held on June 9, 1998, in support of the War Child charity, specifically to benefit the orphans...

Soul Food

Soul Food

1997

as Teri

6.3
Acting

Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's (Irma P. Hall) turn sour when sisters Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), Bird (Nia Long) and Maxine (Vivica A. Fox) ...

Hoodlum

Hoodlum

1997

as Francine Hughes

6.4
Acting

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harle...

Eraser

Eraser

1996

as Lee Cullen

6.1
Acting

A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.

Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie

1995

as Rose Alvarez

6.1
Acting

In 1995, ABC presented a telemovie version of the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie produced by RHI Entertainment. It starred Seinfeld's Jason Alexande...

Nothing Lasts Forever

Nothing Lasts Forever

1995

as Dr. Kathy 'Kat' Hunter

6.0
Acting

Story of the personal lives and careers of three female doctors, from different backgrounds and walks of life, who work at a San Francisco county hosp...

Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II

Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II

1995

as Self

Acting

In commemoration of the 100th birthday of lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, performers present classic Hammerstein songs.

Score with Chicks

Score with Chicks

1994

Acting

47 minute comedic parody with Professor N. Likeflynn (Martin Keegan) offers dating advice on how to score with hot chicks and older women. Consists sh...

Stompin' at the Savoy

Stompin' at the Savoy

1992

as Pauline

Acting

As the Harlem Renaissance flourishes in jazzy New York City, Pauline, Esther and Alice struggle to survive. By day, they toil at dreary jobs, dreaming...

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

1991

as Lulu Daniels

6.3
Acting

It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro, learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on t...

Another You

Another You

1991

as Gloria

5.4
Acting

George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is suppose...

The Kid Who Loved Christmas

The Kid Who Loved Christmas

1990

as Lynette Parks

6.6
Acting

In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and his...

Seriously... Phil Collins

Seriously... Phil Collins

1990

as Rachel - TV Executive

Acting

4 TV Executives attempt to make a television special to promote ...But Seriously. Mostly made of sketches this film includes a rap version of Don't Lo...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer

Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer

1990

as Terri Knight

7.3
Acting

Perry Mason defends the husband of a famous rock singer who was found being killed after having had a tremendous discussion with her husband and her m...

Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal

Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal

1989

as Valentine Hayward

4.6
Acting

A high-priced call girl who has been secretly videotaping her rich clients is shot to death. An investigation of her murder ensues, bringing those inv...

Under the Gun

Under the Gun

1988

as Samantha Richards

6.6
Acting

A St. Louis cop, Mike Braxton (Sam Jones), receives an urgent call for help from his brother Tony (Nick Cassavetes), a small time thief in Los Angeles...

The Pick-up Artist

The Pick-up Artist

1987

as Rae, Girl with Dog

5.7
Acting

A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.