Vanessa Bell Calloway
Acting
Vanessa Bell Calloway is an American actress and dancer. She is known for her film roles as Princess Imani Izzi in the 1988 comedy Coming to America, as well as for her roles in What's Love Got to Do with It, The Inkwell, Crimson Tide, and Daylight. She is a nine-time NAACP Image Award nominee.
She began her acting career in the ABC daytime soap opera, All My Children in 1985. After moving to Los Angeles in 1986, she began appearing in episodes of prime time shows such as The Colbys, Falcon Crest, 227, China Beach, A Different World, and L.A. Law. She made her film debut on Number One with a…
Filmography
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One of Them Days
2025
Queens of Christmas
2024
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
2024
The Vince Staples Show
2024
Under the Boardwalk
2023
Black Girl, Erupted
2023
Wicked City
2022
The Black Hamptons
2022
Mosquito
2022
The Devil You Know
2022
Starkeisha
2022
Baby
2021
Grand Crew
2021
Someday At Christmas
2021
A Holiday Chance
2021
Coming 2 America
2021
Kenan
2021
Saints & Sinners: Judgment Day
2021
Harriet
2019
Unbelievable
2019
American Skin
2019
A Black Lady Sketch Show
2019
Dragged Across Concrete
2019
Black Monday
2019
Throwback Holiday
2018
The Conners
2018
Her Only Choice
2018
Thriller
2018
Unbroken: Path to Redemption
2018
Love, Once and Always
2018
Message From a Mistress
2017
The Preacher's Son
2017
This Is Us
2016
Southside with You
2016
Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story
2016
Saints & Sinners
2016
The Bounce Back
2016
Divas!
2015
To Hell and Back
2014
The Divorce
2014
Holla 2
2013
Between Sisters
2013
Go On
2012
The Obama Effect
2012
A Beautiful Soul
2012
The Last Fall
2012
The Undershepherd
2012
Ringer
2011
Harry's Law
2011
Let's Stay Together
2011
Shameless
2011
Rizzoli & Isles
2010
Castle
2009
Lakeview Terrace
2008
Stompin'
2007
Dexter
2006
The Closer
2005
Grey's Anatomy
2005
Cheaper by the Dozen
2003
Love Don't Co$t a Thing
2003
Cold Case
2003
10-8: Officers on Duty
2003
Joan of Arcadia
2003
NCIS
2003
Biker Boyz
2003
CSI: Miami
2002
Dawg
2002
The Red Sneakers
2002
All About You
2001
The Brothers
2001
The Division
2001
Love Song
2000
Boston Public
2000
The District
2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
A Private Affair
2000
Strong Medicine
2000
The Parkers
1999
The Temptations
1998
Archibald the Rainbow Painter
1998