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Actress. Producer. Additional Crew. IMDbPro Starmeter Top 5,000 642. Play trailer 1:43. Tripped Up (2023) 33 Videos. 99+ Photos. Vanessa Lynne Williams was born on March 18, 1963 in Tarrytown, Greenburgh, New York and raised in Millwood, New Castle, New York to Helen Williams & Milton Williams, both music teachers.
- Actress, Producer, Additional Crew
- March 18, 1963
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- Early Life and Education
- Name Misattribution
- Miss America
- Career
- Personal Life
- Activism
- Honors and Awards
- Bibliography
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Vanessa Lynn Williams was born in Tarrytown with a birth announcement that read: "Here she is: Miss America". She was raised in Millwood, New York. A paternal great-great-grandfather was William Fields, an African-American legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives. Williams is also of English and Welsh descent. Her mother Helen Tinch met...
Williams is most often publicly recognized simply as "Vanessa Williams". There is, however, occasional confusion with the similarly named actress Vanessa E. Williams. It has been reported that Vanessa L. became aware of Vanessa E. in the 1980s when the New York University registrar told her that another, similarly aged student with the same name an...
Williams was the first African-American recipient of the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984 on September 17, 1983. Several weeks before the end of her reign, however, a scandal arose when Penthouse magazine bought and published unauthorized nude photographs of her. Williams was pressured to relinquish her title and was succee...
Music
Williams first received public recognition for her musical abilities when she won the preliminary talent portion of the Miss America pageant with her rendition of "Happy Days Are Here Again" (Williams would later be crowned Miss America 1984). Four years later in 1988, Williams released her debut album, The Right Stuff. The first single, "The Right Stuff", found success on the R&B chart, while the second single, "He's Got the Look", found similar success on the same chart. The third single, "...
Television and film
Williams has had a successful career in television. Her first television appearance was on a 1984 episode of The Love Boat followed by guest appearances in a number of popular shows. In 1995, Williams starred as Rose Alvarez in a television adaptation of the 1960 Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie and portrayed the nymph Calypso in the 1997 Hallmark Entertainment miniseries The Odyssey. In 2001, Williams starred in the Lifetime film about the life of Henriette DeLille, The Courage to Love and in...
Theatre
Williams began her career on stage in the 1985 production, One Man Band, as one of "the women". She followed it in 1989 as "Laura" in Checkmates. In 1994, she broadened her ascendant music career into a theatrical role when she replaced Chita Rivera as Aurora in the Broadway production of Kiss of the Spider Woman. In 1998, she portrayed Della Green in the revival of St. Louis Woman, and Carmen Jones in the 2002 Kennedy Center Special Performance of Carmen Jones. In the same year, she was also...
Williams and her mother Helen co-authored a memoir titled You Have No Idea, published in April 2012. In the book, Williams discusses her childhood, rise to fame, and personal struggles (including life with type 1 diabetes), including the fact that she was sexually molested by a woman when she was ten years old. She also spoke candidly about having ...
Williams is involved with a number of humanitarian causes. She is a supporter of LGBT rights and same sex marriage, and in 2011 participated in the human rights campaign New Yorkers for Marriage Equality. She is partnered with Dress For Success, an organization that provides professional attire for low-income women seeking employment.Williams is al...
Williams is the recipient of many awards and nominations including eleven Grammy nominations for hits such as "The Right Stuff", "Save the Best for Last", and "Colors of the Wind". In addition, she has earned three Emmy nominations, a Tony Award nomination, seven NAACP Image Awards, and four Satellite Awards. She received a star on the Hollywood Wa...
Williams, Vanessa; Williams, Helen (2012). You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-Nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss (and Each Other). New York: Gotham Book...Williams, Vanessa (2020). Bubble Kisses. New York: Sterling Children's Books. ISBN 978-1-4549-3834-7.Vanessa Williams at IMDbVanessa Williams at AllMusicVanessa Williams at the Internet Broadway Database20 de fev. de 2022 · Below are The 10 Best Vanessa Williams Songs of All-Time: 10. Happiness. Video unavailable. Watch on YouTube. Happiness was the third and final single from Vanessa Williams’s 1997 album Next. The song generally received favorable reviews, with most critics noting the song as one of the best tracks on the album.
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- March 18, 1963
Vanessa Lynn Williams (Tarrytown, 18 de março de 1963) é uma cantora, atriz, compositora, modelo, escritora e ativista norte-americana. Ficou famosa em 1983, por ter sido a primeira afro-americana a ser coroada Miss América 1984. [1]
- Vanessa Lynn Williams
REMASTERED IN HD!Official Music Video for Save The Best For Last performed by Vanessa Williams. Follow Vanessa Williams:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/...
She’s earned 13 Grammy® Award nominations ( including Best New Artist, and Record of the Year). She has placed 13 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart. “Save the Best for Last” was ...
