---
name: "Nafessa Williams"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nafessa-williams"
fi1m_id: "nafessa-williams"
imdb_id: "nm4049910"
tmdb_id: 1532331
wikidata_id: "Q28943186"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 December 1989"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T20:44:47.636521+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Nafessa Williams

## Identity

Nafessa Williams

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nafessa-williams
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nafessa-williams
- **IMDb ID:** nm4049910
- **TMDB ID:** 1532331
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28943186
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nafessa_Williams, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28943186, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4049910/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1532331

Actor. Born 4 December 1989 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 December 1989, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nafessa_Williams, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28943186, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4049910/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1532331

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Rivals*](https://film.one/tv/rivals.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Nafessa Williams is an American actress. She trained at West Chester University, where she studied criminal justice, before beginning her acting career in 2011.

Her early roles included a recurring part as Deanna Forbes in the soap opera *One Life to Live* and a film appearance in *Streets*. She is known for playing Anissa Pierce / Thunder in *Black Lightning* (2018–2021), Dr Charlotte Piel in *Code Black*, Jade in the 2017 *Twin Peaks* revival, and Robyn Crawford in the 2022 biopic *Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody*.

In 2024 she starred as Cameron Cook in the series *Rivals*, an adaptation of Jilly Cooper's *Rutshire Chronicles*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, tvmaze.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Rivals* (2024), Fi1m 80, as Cameron Cook — [page](https://film.one/tv/rivals.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Rivals* (2024), series, as Cameron Cook — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/rivals.md)
- *Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody* (2022), as Robyn Crawford
- *A Holiday Chance* (2021), as Noel · Producer, Story
- *Black and Blue* (2019), as Missy
- *Black Lightning* (2018), series, as Anissa Pierce / Thunder / Blackbird
- *True to the Game* (2017), as Sahirah
- *Tales* (2017), series, as Jenny
- *Burning Sands* (2017), as Toya
- *Asterisk* (2016), as Angela
- *Restored Me* (2016), as Monica Berry
- *The Man in 3B* (2015), as Krystal
- *Code Black* (2015), series, as Charlotte Piel
- *Brotherly Love* (2015), as Simone
- *Whitney* (2015), as Kim
- *Survivor's Remorse* (2014), series, as Adina Parker
- *Streets* (2012), as Nicole Gordon
- *Twin Peaks* (1990), series, as Jade — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md)

## Gallery

- ![Nafessa Williams](https://film.one/media/person/22129/gallery-2c04823aa3c2.jpg) Nafessa Williams — Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Nafessa_Williams_-_LATFOB_2026-01.jpg/1280px-Nafessa_Williams_-_LATFOB_2026-01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Salim Akil, Nafessa Williams, Cress Williams, China Anne McClain, Christine Adams and Mara Brock Akil speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, fo](https://film.one/media/person/22129/gallery-9b15d4221727.jpg) Salim Akil, Nafessa Williams, Cress Williams, China Anne McClain, Christine Adams and Mara Brock Akil speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, fo — vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Black_Lightning_cast_%2835762122053%29.jpg/1280px-Black_Lightning_cast_%2835762122053%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dominic Treadwell-Collins & Nafessa Williams at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2026](https://film.one/media/person/22129/gallery-8673e19461d3.jpg) Dominic Treadwell-Collins & Nafessa Williams at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2026 — Kevin Paul, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f6/Dominic_Treadwell-Collins_%26_Nafessa_Williams_-_LATFOB_2026.jpg/1280px-Dominic_Treadwell-Collins_%26_Nafessa_Williams_-_LATFOB_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nafessa Williams, Cress Williams, China Anne McClain and Christine Adams speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Black Lightning", at the S](https://film.one/media/person/22129/gallery-e984cbc2a4a5.jpg) Nafessa Williams, Cress Williams, China Anne McClain and Christine Adams speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Black Lightning", at the S — vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Nafessa_Williams%2C_Cress_Williams%2C_China_Anne_McClain_%26_Christine_Adams_%2836174902500%29.jpg/1280px-Nafessa_Williams%2C_Cress_Williams%2C_China_Anne_McClain_%26_Christine_Adams_%2836174902500%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nafessa Williams](https://film.one/media/person/22129/gallery-13eddc39b620.jpg) Nafessa Williams — Image via TMDB
- ![Nafessa Williams, Cress Williams, China Anne McClain and Christine Adams speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Black Lightning", at the S](https://film.one/media/person/22129/gallery-00243cca2233.jpg) Nafessa Williams, Cress Williams, China Anne McClain and Christine Adams speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Black Lightning", at the S — vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Nafessa_Williams%2C_Cress_Williams%2C_China_Anne_McClain_%26_Christine_Adams_%2836174906520%29.jpg/1280px-Nafessa_Williams%2C_Cress_Williams%2C_China_Anne_McClain_%26_Christine_Adams_%2836174906520%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Nafessa Williams, Cress Williams, China Anne McClain and Christine Adams speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Black Lightning", at the S](https://film.one/media/person/22129/gallery-755c5ded6953.jpg) Nafessa Williams, Cress Williams, China Anne McClain and Christine Adams speaking at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con International, for "Black Lightning", at the S — vagueonthehow from Tadcaster, York, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Nafessa_Williams%2C_Cress_Williams%2C_China_Anne_McClain_%26_Christine_Adams_%2836174916820%29.jpg/1280px-Nafessa_Williams%2C_Cress_Williams%2C_China_Anne_McClain_%26_Christine_Adams_%2836174916820%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/nafessa-williams