Vanessa Bell Calloway

ActorDirector Mar 20 (age 69) Cleveland, Ohio, USA 1981–2025 (44 year career)

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Biography

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 Cre…

Known For

Film

Coming to America

Imani Izzi

Film

Crimson Tide

Julia Hunter

Film

Cheaper by the Dozen

Diana Philips

Film

Harriet

Rit Ross

Film

Coming 2 America

Imani Izzi

Film

Love Don't Co$t a Thing

Vivian Johnson

Film

Dragged Across Concrete

Jennifer Johns

Film

Daylight

Grace Calloway

Filmography

Acting (119)

Movies (62)

One of Them Days

as Mama Ruth

Queens of Christmas

as Julia Mason

Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch

2024

as Idella Landy

Under the Boardwalk

2023

as Val (voice)

7.2

Black Girl, Erupted

2023

as Dr. Rebecca Francis

Starkeisha

as The Voice

Mosquito

as Eve

The Devil You Know

as Della Cowans

Coming 2 America

as Imani Izzi

A Holiday Chance

as Sheryl

Baby

as Jackie

Saints & Sinners: Judgment Day

as Ella

Harriet

as Rit Ross

Dragged Across Concrete

as Jennifer Johns

American Skin

as Bernice

Throwback Holiday

as Mildred Anderson

Unbroken: Path to Redemption

as Lila Burkholder

Thriller

as Mrs. Jackson

Her Only Choice

as Dr. Bailey

Love, Once and Always

2018

as Isabel

6.3

Message From a Mistress

as Heather

The Preacher's Son

as Elena

Southside with You

The Bounce Back

as Ellen

Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story

as Josephine

To Hell and Back

The Divorce

as Eva

Holla 2

2013

as Marion

4.4

Between Sisters

2013

as Lillian

The Last Fall

as Marie Bishop

The Undershepherd

as Deaconess Carter

A Beautiful Soul

as Guardian Angel

The Obama Effect

as Molly Thomas

Good Hair

as Self

Lakeview Terrace

as Aunt Dorrie

Stompin'

as Mrs. Jackson

Love Don't Co$t a Thing

as Vivian Johnson

Biker Boyz

as Anita

Cheaper by the Dozen

as Diana Philips

Dawg

as Christine Hodges

The Red Sneakers

as Berniece

All About You

as Donna Taylor

The Brothers

as Dr. Thelma Woolridge

Love Song

as Evie Livingston

A Private Affair

as Nikka

Archibald the Rainbow Painter

1998

as Diana

Daylight

as Grace Calloway

The Cherokee Kid

as Abby Holsopple

America's Dream

as Miss Williams (segment "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black")

Crimson Tide

as Julia Hunter

The Inkwell

as Francis Phillips

What's Love Got to Do with It

as Jackie

Bebe's Kids

as Jamika (voice)

Memphis

as Martha Kinship

Stompin' at the Savoy

1992

as Dorothy

Why Colors?

Polly: Comin' Home!

as Nancy Dodds

Polly

as Nancy

Coming to America

as Imani Izzi

The Return of Desperado

as Molly Pickett

Death Spa

as Marci Hewitt

Number One with a Bullet

1987

as Woman

4.6

Television (57)

The Vince Staples Show

Sherri

as Self - Guest

The Black Hamptons

as Carolyn Britton

Wicked City

as Tabitha

Kenan

as Bobbi

Black Monday

as Ruth

Unbelievable

as Sarah

A Black Lady Sketch Show

as Kiley's Mother

The Conners

as Carrie Langham

This Is Us

as Edie (uncredited)

Saints & Sinners

as Lady Ella Johnson

Go On

as Joyce

Shameless

as Carol Fisher

Harry's Law

as Jude Campbell

Let's Stay Together

Rizzoli & Isles

as Assistant District Attorney

Castle

as Beryl Wickfield

Dexter

as Crisis Counselor

Grey's Anatomy

as Lucinda Gamble

The Closer

as Lynn Talmadge

Black in the 80s

as Self

NCIS

2003

as Sally Hammond

7.6

Cold Case

2003

as Geraldine Watkins (1970)

7.8

Joan of Arcadia

2003

as Corey Phillips

7.3

10-8: Officers on Duty

as Gina Barnes

CSI: Miami

as Tonya Washington

The Division

as Dana

One on One

as Michelle McCall

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

as Judge Himmel

Strong Medicine

as Melanie Rhodes

Boston Public

as Mrs. Michelle Ronning

The District

as Gwen Hendrix

The Parkers

The Temptations

as Johnnie Mae Matthews

Prey

The View

as Self

Orleans

as Rosalee Clark

Moesha

as Dr. Woods

Malcolm & Eddie

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

1995

as Princess Katusha (voice)

6.0

Under One Roof

1995

as Maggie Langston

Touched by an Angel

as Debra Willis

Diagnosis: Murder

as Mrs. Calender

Where I Live

The Sinbad Show

Rhythm & Blues

The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage

Dream On

as Jeanette

Max Monroe: Loose Cannon

as Velma Jones

China Beach

A Different World

as Lily Connors

L.A. Law

as Robyn Edwards

227

The Colbys

Simon & Simon

Falcon Crest

as Nurse

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954

as Nancy

7.8

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

Black Girl, Erupted

Director

Someday At Christmas

Director