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She is best known for her roles as Maxine Joseph–Chadway in the Showtime drama series, Soul Food (2000–04), 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.
Coming soon Vanessa will reprise her role as Anna Marie in the Candyman sequel "Say My Name," directed by Nia DaCosta, written and produced by Jordan Peele. Williams made her film debut playing as the gun toting head of security "Keisha" in the urban classic film "New Jack City."
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Mar 8, 2016 · 25 Years Later Vanessa A. Williams Revisits 'New Jack City'. By Brennan Williams. Mar 8, 2016, 05:27 PM EST. LEAVE A COMMENT. Warner Bros. Pictures. Twenty-five years ago today, ‘New Jack City’ was released in theaters after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival months earlier.
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Christopher Williams as Kareem Akbar; Vanessa Estelle Williams as Keisha, a female gang member of the CMB. Tracy Camilla Johns as Uniqua, Gee Money's ex-girlfriend who falls for Nino. Anthony DeSando as Frankie Needles; Nick Ashford as Reverend Oates; Thalmus Rasulala as Commissioner Fred R. Price; Phyllis Yvonne Stickney as Prosecuting ...
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Mar 12, 2024 · Vanessa Estelle Williams was cast as Keisha in New Jack City. Her character was one of the few women in Nino’s Cash Money Brothers gang.
Mar 8, 2016 · Twenty-five years ago today, ‘New Jack City’ was released in theaters after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival months earlier. Directed by Mario Van Peebles, who was making his directorial debut, the film starred Wesley Snipes, Allen Payne, Ice-T, Judd Nelson, Vanessa Williams, Bill Nunn, Chris Rock, Michael Michele, Russell Wong ...
