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Vanessa L. Williams
Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Teri Joseph in the 1997 feature film ''Soul Food'', and the television characters Wilhelmina Slater in ''Ugly Betty'', Renee Perry in ''Desperate Housewives'', and Courtney Paige in ''The Good Wife.'' In 1983, Williams became the first African–American woman to win the title of Miss America (Miss America 1984). Williams was forced to resign a few weeks prior to the end of her reign on July 22, 1984 due to a scandal surrounding the publication of unauthorized nude photographs in ''Penthouse'' magazine. In 2015, 32 years after being crowned during the Miss America 2016 pageant (where she was serving as head judge), Miss America CEO Sam Haskell apologized to Williams for what was said to her during the events of 1984.
After her resignation as Miss America in 1984, Williams rebounded with a successful career in the entertainment industry. Her work as an actor on television and in film earned her multiple Emmy nominations and a Tony Award nomination. She likewise received a number of Grammy nominations for her work in the music industry, including hits such as "The Right Stuff," "Save the Best for Last," "Colors of the Wind," and "Oh How the Years Go By." Finally, Williams is the recipient of 7 NAACP Image Awards and 3 Satellite Awards.
==Early life==
Williams was born in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of music teachers Helen and Milton.〔 Her great-great grandfather was William A. Feilds, an African American legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives. A DNA test revealed that her ancestry is 23% from Ghana, 17% from the British Isles (specifically English, Welsh and Irish), 15% from Cameroon, 12% Finnish, 11% Southern European, 7% Togo, 6% Benin, 5% Senegal and 4% Portuguese.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Actress Vanessa Williams Explains How DNA Powers Her Family Tree )〕 Williams and her younger brother Chris, who is also an actor, grew up in Millwood, a predominantly white middle-class suburb of New York City. Prophetically, her parents put on her birth announcement: "Here she is: Miss America."
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