Cynda WilliamsFilmography

Born:: Chicago, IL
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: African American actress Cynda Williams made her feature film debut in Spike Lee's Mo' Better Blues (1990) and has subsequently forged a steady career as a supporting and occasionally lead actress in films of widely varying quality. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide...Read More

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Tru Loved

Actors: Najarra Townsend, Bruce Vilanch, Matthew Thompson, Alec Mapa, Jasmine Guy, Alexandra Paul, Cynda Williams, Jane Lynch, David Kopay

Synopsis: Uprooted from her comfortable San Francisco home and transplanted to a generic Southern California suburb by her two well-meaning moms, open-minded high-school sophomore Tru despairs at being surrounded by close-minded football players and air-headed Paris Hilton wannabes until she gets the idea Read More

10/17/08
Divine Intervention

Actors: Wesley Jonathan, Jazsmin Lewis, Laz Alonso, Reynaldo Rey, James Avery

Synopsis: When the traditionally minded pastor of a fundamentalist Baptist church suffers a debilitating stroke, the energetic young preacher brought in as a temporary replacement draws the ire of both his ailing predecessor and the jealous deacon who seeks to sabotage the stylish but sincere clergyman's Read More

11/30/07
When Do We Eat?

Actors: Michael Lerner, Lesley Ann Warren, Ben Feldman, Shiri Appleby, Adam Lamberg

Synopsis: An old-fashioned Jewish father vows to bring his stubborn family together after being slipped a dose of ecstasy during the annual Passover celebration in director Salvador Litvak's psychedelic Seder comedy. Family patriarch Ira Stuckman (Michael Lerner) has taken a few tips from his hard-nosed Read More

4/7/06
With Or Without You

Synopsis: A guy who's having jitters about his relationship ends up polarizing nearly everyone he knows in this comedy. Robert thinks his life is just the way he wants it until his girlfriend announces one day that she's going to be having his baby. While she wants to get married, Robert isn't sure he wants Read More

2005
MacArthur Park

Actors: Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Brandon Adams, B-Real, Badazz

Synopsis: Playwright Tyrone Atkins lost a promising career in theater and film -- as well as his home, his belongings, and (for a time) his freedom -- when he became addicted to crack cocaine. After conquering his habit, Atkins used his experiences living on the streets as the basis for this story about a Read More

2001
March

Actors: Sean Kanan, Julia Pennington

2001
Hidden Blessings

Actors: Cynda Williams, Marc Gomes, Kim Fields

Synopsis: When the wife of prominent architect Jackson Gray (Marc Gomes) is murdered, detective Brandy Taylor (Cynda Williams) enters dangerous territory when she begins falling for the prime suspect. Though Jackson's assistant, Carrie (Kim Fields), provides her boss with a seemingly bulletproof alibi Read More

2000
Stingers

Synopsis: A pair of low-rent hoods botch their shot at the big time in this stylish crime-drama. Ross (Andrew Roperto) and Martin (Richmond Arquette) are a pair of close friends and small-time hustlers looking for a bigger score. Ross and Martin are regulars at a downtown saloon, where they make the Read More

2000
Relax ... It's Just Sex

Actors: Jennifer Tilly, Mitchell Anderson, Cynda Williams, Lori Petty, Serena Scott Thomas

Synopsis: Tara (Jennifer Tilly) hosts a dinner party. When she discusses the HIV-positive results of her lover's brother, others join in with their opinions on AIDS. Black artist Buzz (T.C. Carson), brought to the party as the date of Vincey (Mitchell Anderson), quickly becomes a twosome with Javi (Eddie Garcia Read More

3/12/99
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Actors: Halle Berry, Brent Spiner, Obba Babatunde, Loretta Devine, Cynda Williams

Synopsis: Dorothy Dandridge was a singer, nightclub entertainer, and actress who became the first African-American woman to receive an Academy award nomination as Best Actress (for her standout performance in 1954's Carmen Jones; she lost to Grace Kelly). However, despite her striking beauty and obvious Read More

1999
Caught Up

Actors: Bokeem Woodbine, Cynda Williams, Joseph Lindsey, Clifton Powell, Basil Wallace

Synopsis: Darin Scott made his directorial debut with this neo-noir crime drama set in South Central L.A. and featuring Cynda Williams in a dual role. Back in L.A. after serving time on drug charges, Daryl Allen (Bokeem Woodbine), who narrates, plans to open a nightclub, and a pal offers to bankroll the Read More

1998
Oprah Winfrey Presents: The Wedding

Actors: Halle Berry, Eric Thal, Lynn Whitfield, Carl Lumbly, Mike Warren

Synopsis: This two-part TV miniseries, adapted from Dorothy West's novel The Wedding, takes a look at mid-century issues of race and class in well-to-do black society. On Martha's Vineyard in 1953, debutante Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) stirs discord in her social-climbing family when she chooses to marry Read More

1998
Spirit Lost

Actors: Leon, Regina Taylor, Cynda Williams, Juanita Jennings, Tamara Tunie

Synopsis: In this spooky horror movie, a painter and his pregnant wife buy a beautiful island home without realizing that it is haunted by the lovely and terribly lonely ghost of a sea captain's lover. Anxious for a new lover to join her, this sexy she-ghost does all she can to simultaneously seduce the Read More

1997
Gang in Blue

Actors: Mario Van Peebles, Josh Brolin, J.T. Walsh, Stephen Lang, Cynda Williams

Synopsis: In this highly-charged police drama, Officer Michael Rhoades is becoming increasingly disturbed by the amount of white-on-black violence that has been escalating in his quiet town. He is especially disturbed that much of that interracial brutality is coming from the police. Rhoades calls they FBI Read More

1996
The Sweeper

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Ed Lauter, Kristen Dalton, Janet Gunn, Cynda Williams

Synopsis: In this actioner, a secret group of citizens who want to take the law into their own hands do their best to convince an L.A. cop to join them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
The Tie That Binds

Actors: Daryl Hannah, Keith Carradine, Moira Kelly, Vincent Spano

Synopsis: Produced by the same team that bankrolled the hit The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, this violent domestic thriller is often compared to that mega-hit. Screenwriter Wesley Strick made his directorial debut with this script by Michael Auerbach. Vincent Spano and Moira Kelly are Russell and Dana Read More

1995
Condition Red

Actors: James Russo, Cynda Williams, Paul Calderon

Synopsis: In this gritty prison thriller, a passionate prison guard finds himself intimate with a sexy inmate and trouble ensues. The guard, Dan Cappelli, works in a Philadelphia jail. He has a hair-trigger violent temper and after brutally defending a fellow guard who was attacked by an inmate, is Read More

1995
Black Rose of Harlem

Synopsis: Set in the roaring '20s amidst the chaotic jazz clubs of Chicago, gangster Johnny Varona embarks upon a forbidden love affair with Georgia, a beautiful black chanteuse. While racism plays a part in dooming the relationship, the most damning factor is Constanza, Johnny's bloodthirsty boss and Read More

1995
Wet

Actors: Arliss Howard, Cynda Williams, Kathleen Wilhoite, John Toles-Bey, Lela Ivey

1995
Tales of Erotica

Actors: Arliss Howard, Cynda Williams, Kathleen Wilhoite, John Toles-Bey, Mira Sorvino

Synopsis: This German film consists of six separate vignettes each created by a different international director, each challenged to create brief erotic scenarios. The first, named "Wet," was directed by Bob Rafelson and involves an encounter between a bathroom fixtures salesman and a customer who comes Read More

1994
Grey Knight

Synopsis: Night of the Living Dead meets Gone with the Wind, in which the Blue and the Gray have to battle the Ghoulish and the Undead. When the Confederate army accidentally unleashes a supernatural voodoo baddie, the spirit starts organizing an army full of dead soldiers, and soon a take-no-prisoners Read More

1993
One False Move

Actors: Bill Paxton, Cynda Williams, Jim Metzler, Billy Bob Thornton, Michael Beach

Synopsis: Carl Franklin made his directorial bow with the story of three LA drug dealers who, after committing a rather messy murder, hide out in a rural Arkansas town. Assuming that the local "rubes" will offer them little interference, the criminals have not reckoned with sheriff "Hurricane" Dixon (Bill Paxton Read More

5/8/92
Mo' Better Blues

Actors: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Joie Lee, Cynda Williams

Synopsis: Spike Lee's 1990 directing effort is a jazz film, the story of a fictional trumpeter named Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington). He leads a quintet at the Beneath the Underground club with a flashy saxophonist named Shadow Henderson (Wesley Snipes). Though Shadow takes a few too many solos Read More

8/3/90