Vanessa Bell Calloway
Birthday
1957/03/20 (67 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Also know as
Vanessa Bell
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...Read more
Acting
(1996) Daylight
as Grace Calloway
(2009) Good Hair
as Self
(2003) Love Don't Co$t a Thing
as Vivian Johnson
(2003) Biker Boyz
as Anita
(2008) Lakeview Terrace
as Aunt Dorrie
(1988) Death Spa
as Marci Hewitt
(2021) Saints & Sinners: Judgment Day
as Ella
(1992) Bebe's Kids
as Jamika (voice)
(2021) A Holiday Chance
as Sheryl
(1993) What's Love Got to Do with It
as Jackie
(1989) Polly
as Nancy
(1994) The Inkwell
as Francis Phillips
(2014) To Hell and Back
as ---
(2012) A Beautiful Soul
as Guardian Angel
(2007) Stompin'
as Mrs. Jackson
(2022) Starkeisha
as The Voice
(2022) The Devil You Know
as Della Cowans
(2002) The Red Sneakers
as Berniece
(2012) The Obama Effect
as Molly Thomas
(2001) All About You
as ---
(2023) Black Girl, Erupted
as Dr. Rebecca Francis
(1998) Archibald the Rainbow Painter
as Diana
(2000) Love Song
as Evie Livingston
(2013) Holla 2
as Marion
(2023) Under the Boardwalk
as Val (voice)
(1990) Polly: Comin' Home!
as Nancy Dodds
(2013) Between Sisters
as Lillian
(2012) The Last Fall
as Marie Bishop
(1992) Memphis
as Martha Kinship
(2016) Southside with You
as ---
(2024) Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
as Idella Landy
(1996) The Cherokee Kid
as Abby Holsopple
(2016) The Bounce Back
as Ellen
(1988) The Return of Desperado
as Molly Pickett
(2016) Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story
as Josephine
(1996) America's Dream
as Miss Williams (segment "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black")
(2025) One of Them Days
as Mama Ruth
(1987) Number One with a Bullet
as Woman
(2017) The Preacher's Son
as Elena
(2000) A Private Affair
as Nikka
(2018) Love, Once and Always
as Isabel
(2018) Unbroken: Path to Redemption
as Lila Burkholder
(1988) Coming to America
as Imani Izzi
(2022) Mosquito
as Eve
(2018) Thriller
as Mrs. Jackson
(1992) Why Colors?
as ---
(2018) Throwback Holiday
as Mildred Anderson
(2018) Her Only Choice
as Dr. Bailey
(2019) Dragged Across Concrete
as Jennifer Johns
(2001) The Brothers
as Dr. Thelma Woolridge
(2021) Coming 2 America
as Imani Izzi
(2019) Harriet
as Rit Ross
(1992) Stompin' at the Savoy
as Dorothy
(2003) Cheaper by the Dozen
as Diana Philips
(1995) Crimson Tide
as Julia Hunter
(2021) Baby
as Jackie
(2014) The Divorce
as Eva
(2017) Message From a Mistress
as Heather
(2019) American Skin
as Bernice
(2012) The Undershepherd
as Deaconess Carter
(2024) Queens of Christmas
as ---
(2002) Dawg
as Christine Hodges
(1996) Malcolm & Eddie
as ---
(1986) L.A. Law
as Robyn Edwards
(1987) A Different World
as Lily Connors
(2000) Boston Public
as Mrs. Michelle Ronning
(2000) The District
as Gwen Hendrix
(2000) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Judge Himmel
(2001) One on One
as Michelle McCall
(2003) Joan of Arcadia
as ---
(2002) CSI: Miami
as Tonya Washington
(2001) The Division
as ---
(1994) Touched by an Angel
as Debra Willis
(1981) Simon & Simon
as ---
(1988) China Beach
as ---
(1993) The Sinbad Show
as ---
(1985) 227
as ---
(2003) Cold Case
as Geraldine Watkins (1970)
(1997) The View
as Self
(1993) Where I Live
as ---
(1996) Moesha
as ---
(1993) Diagnosis: Murder
as Mrs. Calender
(1999) The Parkers
as ---
(1998) Prey
as ---
(1985) The Colbys
as ---
(2012) Go On
as Joyce
(1991) The 100 Lives of Black Jack Savage
as ---
(1995) Under One Roof
as Maggie Langston
(1997) Orleans
as Rosalee Clark
(2003) 10-8: Officers on Duty
as ---
(1992) Rhythm & Blues
as ---
(2005) Black in the 80s
as Self
(2011) Let's Stay Together
as ---
(2009) Castle
as Beryl Wickfield
(2010) Rizzoli & Isles
as Assistant District Attorney
(2003) NCIS
as Sally Hammond
(2021) Kenan
as Bobbi
(2016) Saints & Sinners
as Lady Ella Johnson
(1987) A Different World
as Danielle Vinson
(2022) Sherri
as Self - Guest
(1995) Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Princess Katusha (voice)
(2016) This Is Us
as Edie
(2022) The Black Hamptons
as Carolyn Britton
(2016) This Is Us
as Edie (uncredited)
(1998) The Temptations
as Johnnie Mae Matthews
(2019) A Black Lady Sketch Show
as Kiley's Mother
(2024) The Vince Staples Show
as ---
(2018) The Conners
as Carrie Langham
(2005) Grey's Anatomy
as Lucinda Gamble
(2019) Unbelievable
as Sarah
(1990) Dream On
as Jeanette
(2006) Dexter
as Crisis Counselor
(2000) Strong Medicine
as Melanie Rhodes
(2011) Shameless
as Carol Fisher
(2019) Black Monday
as Ruth
(2005) The Closer
as Lynn Talmadge
(1981) Falcon Crest
as Nurse
(2022) Wicked City
as Tabitha