Vanessa Williams has been tapped for a lead role alongside Matt Walsh and JoAnna Garcia Swisher in Happy Accident, ABC’s single-camera family comedy pilot from Modern Family writers Abraham Higginbotham and Jon Pollack.
Happy Accident revolves around two Pittsburgh families, a father (Walsh) with three adult daughters (Swisher as Eleanor), and a hotel lounge singer (Williams) with her med student son, who are forced together after a decades-old secret is revealed.
Vanessa Williams is no stranger to TV on ABC. The actress played Wilhelmina Slater on ABC’s Ugly Betty, receiving three Emmy nominations for the role, and co-starred in the final two seasons of Desperate Housewives while also headlining ABC’s 666 Park Avenue.
