Vanessa Bell Calloway
NAACP Theater Award for Best Actress for her role as Zora Neale Hurston in her one-woman critically-acclaimed play “Letters From Zora”. Currently she’s one of the stars of the hit Broadway Play “Purlie Victorious” starring Leslie Odom Jr at The Music Box Theater. Vanessa stars in the NAACP Image Award nominated limited series “The Black Hamptons” now streaming on BET PLUS, “Whicked City” a new series for ALLBLK and she’ll soon be seen in the new Netflix’s series “The Vince Staples Show”, produced by Kenya Barris and a Netflix’s pilot “Little Sky” created and directed by Rightor Doyle. “Black Girl Erupted”, a TV movie that she directed, produced and co-starred in for BETHER will air this July. She was a special guest star in the final season of NBC’s hit drama “This Is Us”, as well as BET Plus Drama “ Sacrifice” and “The Games People Play”. She stared as the matriarch Lady Ella for six seasons on Bounce TV’s one-hour hit-drama “Saint & Sinners”, which can now be viewed on Hulu.”. Movie credits include Lionsgate’s feature film “The Devil You Know”, “A Holiday Chance”,“American Skin”, “Coming To America” , “Coming 2 America”. “Harriet”, “South Side With You”, “What’s Love Got to Do With”, “Biker Boyz”, “Daylight”, “Crimson Tide”, “Love Don’t Cost A Thing”, “Cheaper By The Dozen” and “The Inkwell”. Her other TV credits are many! Other shows include “Grand Crew”, “Shameless”, “Black Monday”,“Kenan”, “Queen Sugar”, “Unbelievable”, “Love Is”, “Survivors Remorse”.
