Biography
Vanessa Bell Calloway is an American actress. Born on 20 March 1957 in Cleveland, Ohio, she trained as a dancer and appeared in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls. She began her screen career in the daytime soap All My Children in 1985 and made her film debut in Number One with a Bullet (1987). She is known for her role as Imani Izzi in Coming to America (1988), as well as appearances in What's Love Got to Do with It (1993), The Inkwell (1994), Crimson Tide (1995) and Daylight (1996), in which she played Grace Calloway.
Calloway has appeared in numerous television series, including Under One Roof (1995), Grey's Anatomy, Dexter, Shameless and NCIS. She is a nine-time NAACP Image Award nominee. She has also worked in made-for-television films and voiced a role in the animated feature Bébé's Kids (1992).
