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Vanessa Lynn Williams  (born March 18, 1963) is an American singer, actress, and fashion designer. She initially gained recognition as the first woman of  African-American  descent to receive the  Miss America  title when she was crowned  Miss America 1984  in 1983. However, a scandal arose the following year when, a few weeks prior to the end of her reign, Williams learned that  Penthouse  magazine would be publishing unauthorized nude photographs of her in an upcoming issue. Amid growing media controversy and scrutiny,  Williams resigned as Miss America in July 1984  (under pressure from the Miss America Organization), and was replaced by first runner-up  Miss New Jersey   Suzette Charles . Thirty-two years later,  Miss America CEO Sam Haskell offered her a public apology  (during the  Miss America 2016  pageant) for the events of 1984. Williams rebounded from the scandal with a successful career...

He is best known for his roles as the ruthless Nietzschean mercenary  Tyr Anasazi  in the science-fiction series  Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda  from 2000 to 2002 and as Noah Keefer on  All My Children  from 1994 to 1996. Cobb was born in  North Tarrytown, New York ; he graduated from  New York University 's Tisch School of the Arts in 1987. A classically trained actor, he appeared in a number of Shakespearean productions in the New York area before breaking into television in the mid-1990s. One of his first movies was the 1995 film  Eyes Beyond Seeing  in which he plays a mental patient who claims to be Jesus Christ. In 1999, Cobb was in two episodes of the  Beastmaster  television series, portraying a character very similar to his character from  Andromeda . In 1996, Cobb was named on  People  magazine's annual list of the "50 most beautiful people". He left the  Andromeda  TV series at the ...