Vanessa Williams
Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American singer, actress, producer, dancer, and model. She was the first Black woman to win Miss America in 1984, but resigned after nude photos of her were published in Penthouse magazine. Williams has since had a successful career in music and acting, selling millions of albums and earning critical acclaim.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.5156 |
| Birthday | 1963-03-18 |
| Place of Birth | Tarrytown, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Vanessa L. William, Vanessa Lynn Williams, |
2000
Shaft
6.008/1434
New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail...
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Shaft
2023
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
5/2
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...
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Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
1991
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
6.317/480
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...
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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
1997
Hoodlum
6.404/235
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...
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Hoodlum
2000
A Diva's Christmas Carol
6.222/36
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...
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A Diva's Christmas Carol
1996
Eraser
6.088/2007
A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.
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Eraser
2007
And Then Came Love
5.9/9
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...
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And Then Came Love
1997
Soul Food
6.244/90
Traditional Sunday dinners at Mama Joe's turn sour when sisters Teri, Bird and Maxine start bringing their problems to the dinner table in this ensemb...
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Soul Food
1995
Bye Bye Birdie
6.15/20
In 1995, ABC presented a telemovie version of the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie produced by RHI Entertainment. It starred Seinfeld's Jason Alexande...
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Bye Bye Birdie
2006
My Brother
5.75/4
"My Brother" is an inner city story of two impoverished boys, Isaiah and James. James is developmentally disabled. Their mother, L'Tisha, finds hersel...
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My Brother
1999
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
6.39/91
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...
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The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
1999
Futuresport
4.317/63
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...
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Futuresport
2024
Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
0/0
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...
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Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
1998
Dance with Me
6.864/217
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...
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Dance with Me
1987
The Pick-up Artist
5.658/200
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.
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The Pick-up Artist
2023
Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best
2/1
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...
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Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best
2009
Hannah Montana: The Movie
6.589/2096
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...
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Hannah Montana: The Movie
1999
Light It Up
6.75/36
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...
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Light It Up
2004
Johnson Family Vacation
5.515/206
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...
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Johnson Family Vacation
2000
The Courage to Love
6.786/7
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...
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The Courage to Love
2005
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
7.2/4
Broadway royalty and Tony-winners Tommy Tune, Carol Channing, Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein are your hosts for this third compilation of great m...
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Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2013
Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
6.6/191
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...
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Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
1989
Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
4.833/9
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...
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Full Exposure: The Sex Tapes Scandal
2013
He's Way More Famous Than You
4.2/20
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...
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He's Way More Famous Than You
2000
Shaft: Still the Man
7.5/2
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Shaft: Still the Man
2001
WW3
5.375/16
Terrorists release a deadly biological-warfare virus in the United States.
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WW3
2000
Don Quixote
6.342/38
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...
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Don Quixote
1995
Nothing Lasts Forever
6.5/2
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...
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Nothing Lasts Forever
2023
Tripped Up
5/17
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...
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Tripped Up
2006
Rehearsing a Dream
0/0
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...
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Rehearsing a Dream
2011
A Mother's Love
0/0
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...
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A Mother's Love
2014
The Trip to Bountiful
6/16
Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forb...
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The Trip to Bountiful
1991
Another You
5.439/106
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...
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Another You
1988
Under the Gun
7.1/5
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...
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Under the Gun
2001
Santa, Baby!
5.5/4
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...
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Santa, Baby!
2000
Afrocentricity
7/1
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...
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Afrocentricity
1990
Seriously... Phil Collins
8/1
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...
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Seriously... Phil Collins
2016
The Secret She Kept
6.8/4
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...
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The Secret She Kept
2017
The Man from Earth: Holocene
5.491/275
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...
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The Man from Earth: Holocene
2016
VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night
0/0
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...
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VH1 Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night
2000
Christmas is Coming: Rob Mathes & Very Special Friends
10/1
An extraordinary program of holiday music featuring special guest appearances and musical contributions by Vanessa Williams, Michael McDonald, David S...
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Christmas is Coming: Rob Mathes & Very Special Friends
1990
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
7.55/10
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...
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer
2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
5.188/8
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...
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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2002
Keep the Faith, Baby
5.714/7
Harry J. Lennix stars as trailblazing and controversial African-American congressman and Civil Rights activist Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who started ou...
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Keep the Faith, Baby
2017
Not Black Enough
7.8/4
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...
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Not Black Enough
2020
Singleholic
2/1
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...
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Singleholic
2015
Show Boat
0/0
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...
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Show Boat
1994
Score with Chicks
7/1
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...
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Score with Chicks
2019
Miss Virginia
8.1/9
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...
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Miss Virginia
2002
It's Black Entertainment
8.667/3
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...
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It's Black Entertainment
2019
Batman: Hush
7.165/954
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...
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Batman: Hush
2004
The 7th Annual Soul Train Christmas Starfest
0/0
An extremely unique celebration of Christmas for the young and hip and the young at heart.
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The 7th Annual Soul Train Christmas Starfest
2004
Christmas in Washington
3.667/3
Directed by Michael Stevens. With Michael McDonald, Phil McGraw, LeAnn Rimes, Ruben Studdard.
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Christmas in Washington
2018
The Legend of Hallowaiian
7.8/9
After releasing a mythical monster upon the islands, a group of three young friends must use local legends to restore peace to their home.
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The Legend of Hallowaiian
1998
Pavarotti & Friends - For the Children of Liberia
0/0
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...
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Pavarotti & Friends - For the Children of Liberia
1992
Stompin' at the Savoy
0/0
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...
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Stompin' at the Savoy
2021
Bad Hair
5.696/92
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...
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Bad Hair
2020
Vanessa Williams: Live From the West Side
0/0
Join us for a livestream concert series featuring singer and actress Vanessa Williams. Streamed live from New York’s Shubert Virtual Studios, the show...
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Vanessa Williams: Live From the West Side
1990
The Kid Who Loved Christmas
6.6/4
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...
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The Kid Who Loved Christmas
2018
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay
7.093/714
Amanda Waller's top-secret "Task Force X" — consisting of Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Killer Frost, Captain Boomerang, Harley Quinn, and Copperhead — is o...
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Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay
2005
Gift for the Living
9/1
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...
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Gift for the Living
2021
Show of Titles
0/0
An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best.
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Show of Titles
2020
There She Is
0/0
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...
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There She Is
1995
Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II
0/1
In commemoration of the 100th birthday of lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, performers present classic Hammerstein songs.
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Some Enchanted Evening: Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II
2024
The Little Pageant That Could
0/0
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...
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The Little Pageant That Could
2004
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
0/0
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...
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Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
2005
Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade
7/1
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Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade
2008
Walt Disney World Christmas Day Parade
0/0
Walt Disney World Very Merry Christmas Parade is a live television special.
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