Vanessa Williams

US pop/R&B vocalist/producer

Since 1963

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Fri Nov 13 Englewood, United States · Bergen Performing Arts Center Tickets
Thu Feb 18 Glasgow, United Kingdom · The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Tickets
Sat Feb 20 Nottingham, United Kingdom · Theatre Royal Concert Hall Tickets
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Tue Feb 23 Southend-on-sea, United Kingdom · Cliffs Pavilion Tickets
Wed Feb 24 Brighton, United Kingdom · Theatre Royal Brighton Tickets
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Sat Feb 27 Manchester, United Kingdom · Opera House Manchester Tickets
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Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963) is an American singer, actress, model, producer and dancer. She gained recognition as the first Black woman to win the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984. She would later resign her title amid a media controversy surrounding nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine. Thirty-two years later, Williams was offered a public apology during the Miss America 2016 pageant for the events.

Williams rebounded from the scandal with a successful career as a singer and actress. In 1988, she released her debut studio album The Right Stuff, whose title single saw moderate success as well as "Dreamin'", which peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States in 1989. With her second and third studio albums, The Comfort Zone (1991) and The Sweetest Days (1994), she saw continued commercial success and received multiple Grammy Award nominations, including her number-one single and signature song, "Save the Best for Last", which she performed live at the 1993 Grammy Awards ceremonies. Her later studio albums include Everlasting Love (2005), The Real Thing (2009), and Survivor (2024).

As an actress, Williams enjoyed success on stage and screen. She made her Broadway debut in 1994 with Kiss of the Spider Woman. In 2002, she starred as The Witch in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods that earned her a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical at the 56th Tony Awards. She starred in the revival of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful in 2013, and the ensemble political farce POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive in 2022. In television, Williams has played Wilhelmina Slater on Ugly Betty (2006–2010) for which she was nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series; and Renee Perry on Desperate Housewives (2010–2012). Since 2024, she has been starring as Miranda Priestly in the musical The Devil Wears Prada at the Dominion Theatre, London.

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Vanessa Williams, née le 18 mars 1963 à Tarrytown, État de New York (États-Unis) est une actrice, chanteuse, productrice et mannequin américaine.

En 1984, elle est la première Afro-Américaine couronnée Miss America. Chanteuse à succès, principalement aux États-Unis, elle a sorti 8 albums, entre 1988 et 2009. Elle a été nommée, à de nombreuses reprises, à la cérémonie des Grammy Awards.

Au cinéma, elle confirme sa notoriété, à la fin des années 1990, grâce à des productions comme : L'Effaceur (1996), Soul Food et Les Seigneurs de Harlem (1997) et Shaft (2000). En 2009, elle joue dans le film Hannah Montana et elle confirme avec la comédie Tentation : Confession d'une femme mariée, sorti en 2013.

À la télévision, elle est reconnue pour avoir joué dans les séries télévisées South Beach, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives et 666 Park Avenue grâce auxquelles elle se retrouve nommée aux Emmy Awards et remporte des prix aux NAACP Image Awards et lors des Satellite Awards.

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