Vanessa Bell Calloway

Personal Info

Birthday

March 20, 1957

(68 years old)

Place of Birth

Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Also Known As

Vanessa Bell

Vanessa Bell Calloway

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 Crest, 227, China Beach, A Different World, and L.

Known For

Grey's Anatomy

NCIS

Dexter

Shameless

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Castle

CSI: Miami

Diagnosis: Murder

Filmography

2025
One of Them Days
as Mama Ruth
2024
Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch
as Idella Landy
2023
Under the Boardwalk
as Val (voice)
Black Girl, Erupted
as Dr. Rebecca Francis
2022
Mosquito
as Eve
The Devil You Know
as Della Cowans
Starkeisha
as The Voice
2021
Baby
as Jackie
A Holiday Chance
as Sheryl
Coming 2 America
as Imani Izzi
Saints & Sinners: Judgment Day
as Ella
2019
Harriet
as Rit Ross
American Skin
as Bernice
Dragged Across Concrete
as Jennifer Johns
2018
Throwback Holiday
as Mildred Anderson
Her Only Choice
as Dr. Bailey
Thriller
as Mrs. Jackson
Unbroken: Path to Redemption
as Lila Burkholder
Love, Once and Always
as Isabel
2017
Message From a Mistress
as Heather
The Preacher's Son
as Elena
2016
Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story
as Josephine
The Bounce Back
as Ellen
2014
The Divorce
as Eva
2013
Holla 2
as Marion
Between Sisters
as Lillian
2012
The Obama Effect
as Molly Thomas
A Beautiful Soul
as Guardian Angel
The Last Fall
as Marie Bishop
The Undershepherd
as Deaconess Carter
2009
Good Hair
as Self
2008
Lakeview Terrace
as Aunt Dorrie
2007
Stompin'
as Mrs. Jackson
2003
Cheaper by the Dozen
as Diana Philips
Love Don't Co$t a Thing
as Vivian Johnson
Biker Boyz
as Anita
2002
Dawg
as Christine Hodges
The Red Sneakers
as Berniece
2001
The Brothers
as Dr. Thelma Woolridge
2000
Love Song
as Evie Livingston
A Private Affair
as Nikka
1998
Archibald the Rainbow Painter
as Diana
1996
The Cherokee Kid
as Abby Holsopple
Daylight
as Grace Calloway
America's Dream
as Miss Williams (segment "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black")
1995
Crimson Tide
as Julia Hunter
1994
The Inkwell
as Francis Phillips
1993
What's Love Got to Do with It
as Jackie
1992
Bebe's Kids
as Jamika (voice)
Stompin' at the Savoy
as Dorothy
Memphis
as Martha Kinship
1990
Polly: Comin' Home!
as Nancy Dodds
1989
Polly
as Nancy
1988
Death Spa
as Marci Hewitt
Coming to America
as Imani Izzi
The Return of Desperado
as Molly Pickett
1987
Number One with a Bullet
as Woman