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Vanessa L. Williams

Highest Rated:: 80% Soul Food (1997)
Lowest Rated:: 6% Johnson Family Vacation (2004)

Birthday:: Mar 18, 1963
Birthplace:: Bronx, New York, USA
Bio:: The roller coaster career of actress and singer Vanessa L. Williams provides an excellent example of fortitude, resilience, and real talent winning out over adversity. In 1983, Williams made history when she was the first black woman to be chosen Miss America. For a time she was the country's…

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Highest Rated Movies

Soul Food
80%
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
77%
Shaft
68%
The Pick-Up Artist
55%

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 6% - 80%

Number of Movies: 53

Box Office Since 2001: $161.9M

Year	Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office
2013	16%	Temptation	Janice	$51.4M
2012	17%	Delhi Safari	Begam	--
2009	44%	Hannah Montana: The Movie	Vita	$79.5M
2008		Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies - Its Movie Time!	Actor	--
2008		Flirting with Forty	Actor	--
2007	15%	And Then Came Love	Julie	--
2007	30%	My Brother	L'Tisha Morton	--
2006		Angels Can't Help but Laugh	Actor	--
2005		#1 Country Hits: Country Love Songs	Actor	--
2005		Broadway's Lost Treasures III	Into the Woods	--
2005		Love Songs 2	Actor	--
2004	6%	Johnson Family Vacation	Dorothy Johnson	$31.0M
2004		Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song	Actor	--
2004		Vanessa Williams - 20th Century Masters	Actor	--
2004		Courage To Love	Actor	--
2003		Santa, Baby!	Actor	--
2002		WW3 (Winds of Terror)	Actor	--
2002		Unchained Memories - Readings from the Slave Narratives	Actor	--
2002		Our America	Director	--
2002		Unchained Memories: Slave Narratives	Actor	--
2002		Black Listed	Actor	--
2001		Keep the Faith, Baby	Actor	--
2000	68%	Shaft	Carmen Vasquez	--
2000		A Diva's Christmas Carol	Ebony Scrooge	--
2000		Our Favorite Things - Christmas in Vienna	Actor	--
2000		The Courage to Love	Actor	--
2000		Don Quixote	Dulcinea	--
2000		Afrocentricity	Actor	--
1999	77%	The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland	Queen of Trash	--
1999	38%	Light It Up	Audrey McDonald	--
1999		It's Black Entertainment!	Host	--
1999		Christmas is Coming - Rob Mathes and Very Special Friends	Actor	--
1998		Pavarotti and Friends - For The Children Of Liberia	Actor	--
1998	50%	Dance with Me	Ruby Sinclair	--
1998		Futuresport (Future Sport)	Actor	--
1997	45%	Hoodlum	Francine Hughes	--
1997	80%	Soul Food	Teri	--
1997		The Odyssey	Calypso	--
1996	36%	Eraser	Director Lee Cullen	--
1996		Images & Realities: African American Family	Actor	--
1995		Bye Bye Birdie	Rose Alvarez	--
1995		People	Actor	--
1994	14%	Drop Squad	Director	--
1992		The Jacksons: An American Dream	Suzanne de Passe	--
1991	24%	Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man	Lulu Daniels	--
1991	11%	Another You	Gloria	--
1990		Kid Who Loved Christmas	Actor	--
1990		Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer	Terri Knight	--
1989		Full Exposure - The Sex Tapes Scandal	Valentine	--
1988		Under the Gun (Iron Fist)	Samantha Richards	--
1988		Under the Gun	Actor	--
1987	55%	The Pick-Up Artist	Rae	--
		Vanessa Williams - The Right Stuff	Actor	--

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1. Janice: Can't you just knock. Just the person I want to see have a seat
2. Judith: No! I wanted to just say thank you for the job but it's going to be my last week.
3. Janice: No! This is your last day, I just got a call telling me Harley is out of the deal with me and going to open practice with you.
4. Judith: That's what we are planning to do!
5. Janice: We? Little Girl you have no idea what you are in for. But I wish you with all the best with your struggle.
6. Judith: You know I've been meaning to tell you are in a existential identity crisis; I done my research on you spent those two weeks in Paris and now of a sudden with a french accent, we know you from Georgia!
7. Janice: Bitch you better get your ass out of my office!
From Temptation. Submitted by Dillon B (4 days ago)

1. Lee Cullen: [John knocks down a door and shoots a guy] You're late!
2. "Eraser" John Kruger: Traffic.
From Eraser. Submitted by Francis L (14 months ago)