Candace Neolani Maxwell

Candace Neolani Maxwell


in New York City, New York, USA
Candace Maxwell is a first generation Caribbean-American actress and dancer hailing from Queens, New York and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She is best known for her work as Cassandra Haynes on "Power" (2019) and "Insatiable" (2019). Before starting her acting career, she worked extensively as a dancer on stage, film, and Broadway having been a back-up dancer for hip-hop icons Beyonce, Lil Kim and P. Diddy. Her skills landed her dance segments on major TV shows and catapulted her to Broadway where she was cast in "Holler If You Hear Me". Having her eyes set on expanding her opportunities in an acting career, Candace trained at the Maggie Flanigan Studio with an in-depth focus on the Meisner technique. Outside of Film & TV, she is passionate about travel, food & culture, animals, and is an advocate for underprivileged youth

Movies for Candace Neolani Maxwell...

The Christmas Clapback
Title: The Christmas Clapback
Character: Jasmine
Released: November 24, 2022
Type: Movie
​Every year the three Miles sisters, Jasmine, Kira, and Tisha, battle each other for a chance to win the neighborhood Christmas Church Cook-Off competition. But when Aaliyah, the vivacious Social Media Influencer, enters the competition, the sisters must choose to rise together, or fall divided.
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Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming
Title: Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming
Character: Ellie
Released: February 25, 2022
Type: Movie
Madea's back - hallelujer! And she's not putting up with any nonsense as family drama erupts at her great-grandson's college graduation celebration.
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Title: All the Queen's Men
Character: DJ Dime
Released: September 9, 2021
Type: TV
Marilyn "Madam" DeVille is at the top of her game in the Atlanta nightclub industry, and she won't let anyone or anything stand her in way as she rules a crew of male exotic dancers.
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Title: Insatiable
Character: Jasmine
Released: August 10, 2018
Type: TV
A bullied teenager turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge, with the help of a disgraced coach who soon realizes he's in over his head.
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Bad Dad Rehab
Title: Bad Dad Rehab
Character: Paula
Released: July 3, 2016
Type: Movie
After turbulence with their respective baby mamas and ex-wives force them to take definitive action, the four guys sign up for Deadbeat Dad Rehab with Mr Leon to help them get their act together. Through all the hilarity, hi-jinks, drama and soul-searching, the guys discover that fatherhood is less about making babies, and more about becoming men.
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Paramedics
Title: Paramedics
Character: Grandmother
Released: May 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Two brothers posing as paramedics kidnap their victims and harvest their organs for the black market. That is until they kidnap a woman they find impossible to kill and it turns out she has more power over them than they over her.
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Title: Power
Character: Cassandra Haynes
Released: June 7, 2014
Type: TV
A successful New York entrepreneur lives a double life as the head of a drug empire that serves only the rich and influential, all while wanting to escape the underworld and keep his family safe.
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Footloose
Title: Footloose
Character: Finale Dancer
Released: October 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where loud music and dancing are prohibited. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizing the town and falling in love with the minister’s troubled daughter Ariel in the process.