Vanessa Williams

American singer

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2024 Williams takes a recurring voice role as Dr. Perdue in the animated series Velma
2024 Vanessa Williams released the single 'Survivor'.
2024 Vanessa Williams released the single 'Legs (Keep Dancing)', which peaked at position 3.
2024 Vanessa Williams collaborated with Trixie Mattel and Lion Babe on the single 'Bop!'.
2024 Vanessa Williams released the single 'iLike Moonlight'.
November 11 2024 Producing 'A Wonderful World' at Studio 54, Broadway
October 2024 Playing Miranda Priestly in 'The Devil Wears Prada' at Dominion Theatre, West End
August 23 2024 Vanessa Williams released her album 'Survivor' under Mellian Music and WMG.
July 2024 Playing Miranda Priestly in 'The Devil Wears Prada' at Theatre Royal, Plymouth
April 15 2024 Performing in 'KRISTIN: An Evening with Friends for Todd' at Stephen Sondheim Theatre, Broadway
2023 Williams appears in 'American Experience', narrates a documentary, and returns as a guest on RuPaul's Drag Race
2023 Starred in Tripped Up as Patty
2022 Performed in Seth Rudetsky's Broadway Concert Series at Town Hall, Broadway
2022 Performed in '50 Years of Broadway at the Kennedy Center' at Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2022 Played Cora Hoover Hooper in 'Anyone Can Whistle' at Carnegie Hall
April 14 2022 Began performances as Margaret in POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre.
2021 Williams takes on voice roles in 'Marvel's Wastelanders: Star-Lord' and appears in 'Girls5eva'
2021 Quietly divorced Jim Skrip.
2021 Williams begins recurring role in Girls5eva and joins as a judge on Queen of the Universe
May 14 2021 Vanessa Williams released her fourth compilation album titled 'The Best' on May 14, 2021, under the label Mercury.
2020 Appeared in Bad Hair as Zora Choice
2020 Williams won episode 2 of RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race and donated her $20,000 prize to The Trevor Project.
2020 Performed in 'City of Angels' as Carla/Alaura at Garrick Theatre, West End
2020 Vanessa Williams was part of the cast of 'RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race' featuring the performance titled 'Twerking 5 to 9: The Rusical.'
2019 Voiced Amanda Waller in Batman: Hush (direct-to-video) and starred in Miss Virginia
2018 Williams returned as a spokesmodel for L'Oréal's 'Age perfect' campaign.
2018 Performed in 'Hey Look Me Over' at City Center, Off-Broadway
2018 Voiced multiple roles: Amanda Waller in Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (direct-to-video), Fire Goddess in The Legend of Hallowaiian, and starred in the television film False Profits as Suzanne
April 2018 Announced she was working on a new studio album incorporating R&B, pop, and Broadway influences.
2017 Starred as Maxine in the VH1 television series Daytime Divas during its single season.
2017 Appeared in The Man From Earth: Holocene as the character Carolyn
December 2017 Participated in the COAF Gala fundraising event, where she performed her Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning song 'Colors of the Wind' and paid tribute to Patricia Field, her Ugly Betty collaborator.
2016 Receives a public apology from Miss America during the 2016 pageant for the previous nude photograph controversy.
2016 Joined the cast of The Librarians as recurring villainess General Rockwell.
March 2016 Vanessa Williams launched her own clothing line called V. by Vanessa Williams, which was sold on EVINE Live shopping network.
2015 Married Jim Skrip, a businessman from Buffalo, New York, at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church after receiving a Church annulment of her first marriage.
September 2015 During the Miss America 2016 pageant, where Williams served as head judge, former Miss America CEO Sam Haskell publicly apologized for the events of 1984.
2014 Played Julie in 'Show Boat' at New York Philharmonic, Avery Fisher Hall
2014 Starred in two productions: The Trip to Bountiful as Jessie Mae Watts (television film) and voiced Hisako in When Marnie Was There
2014 Starred in the Broadway musical After Midnight and appeared in a PBS production of Show Boat as Julie La Verne.
2013 Participated in the 'Who Do You Think You Are?' program to investigate her genetic ancestry, discovering her diverse ethnic background through DNA testing.
2013 Appeared as Special Guest Star in 'After Midnight' at Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway
2013 Stars in the revival of Horton Foote's 'The Trip to Bountiful'.
2013 Appeared in two films: He's Way More Famous Than You (as herself) and Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (as Janice)
2012 Williams takes on multiple acting roles, including a main role in '666 Park Avenue' and voice acting in 'Phineas and Ferb'
2012 Williams starts her main role in the supernatural drama series 666 Park Avenue
2012 Williams voiced the character Ms. Brown in a Super Bowl XLVI commercial for M&Ms.
April 2012 Vanessa Williams and her mother Helen co-authored a memoir titled 'You Have No Idea', in which she candidly discusses her childhood, rise to fame, personal struggles including her experience with type 1 diabetes and sexual molestation as a child.
2011 Williams becomes a guest judge on RuPaul's Drag Race, starting a long-term association with the show
2011 Vanessa Williams voiced the character Beggum in the animated film Delhi Safari

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