Vanessa Williams

Vanessa Williams is a singer, actress and the first African-American to be crowned Miss America, in 1983. Though Williams famously lost her crown as a result of a nude picture scandal, she rebounded by focusing on music. Her 1988 debut album, The Right Stuff, earned her a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. She went on to star in the Broadway production of Kiss of the Spider Woman. Outside of stage and film, she has been successful as a TV actor, playing neighbor Renee Perry on Desperate Housewives and receiving three Emmy nominations for her work on the ABC comedy Ugly Betty.
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Stars of the new Broadway play The Trip to Bountiful, Cicely Tyson and Vanessa Williams, attend the show's opening night after-party at Copacabana in New York City. (Photo: Robin Marchant/Getty Images)

Vanessa Williams on starring in the new Broadway production of The Trip to Bountiful: 

“This is a human story about a family. The fact that this family is Black during Jim Crow in Houston is one aspect. It talks about aging, longing to go home… Those are things we deal with now, and if it brings more [people] to Broadway it is fanta...

Broadway Buds

Castmates in the new Broadway play A Trip to Bountiful, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Vanessa Williams, attend opening night of Motown: The Musical at Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City. (Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Sony Music)

Vanessa Williams 

Before actress Vanessa Williams appeared on screens both big and small, she was the first African-American crowned Miss America in 1983. She was forced to give up her crown after nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.  (Photo: NBCU Pho...

Vanessa Williams, 50

The former Miss America didn't let a little scandal derail her career. The regal beauty just proves that style and grace will always reign supreme. (Photo: Ivan Nikolov/WENN.com)

Vanessa Williams: March 18

The former beauty queen turned singer and actress is as gorgeous as ever at 50. (Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
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