Vanessa Bell Calloway

You Might Know Her From Shameless, One of Them Days, Coming to America, Coming 2 America, Harriet, Bebe's Kids, Saints & Sinners, Daylight, the original cast of Dreamgirls on Broadway, and What's Love Got To Do With It? We talked to Vanessa about her full-circle Tina Turner moment from the "What's Love Got to Do With It?" music video to the Angela Bassett-led biopic; playing Tina's Ikette-turned-bestie Jackie; and the stunt gone wrong in the diner. Plus barking in Coming to America, acting opposite influencers and "housewives," and originating in the iconic OBC of Dreamgirls. We LOVED Vanessa Bell Calloway. May we all manifest more Mama Ruth in the rumored One of Them Days sequel.   Patreon: www.patreon.com/youmightknowherfrom Follow us on social media: @youmightknowherfrom on IG || @youmightknowherfrom on TT @damianbellino || @rodemanne Discussed this week: Unrivaled women's basketball dance off in Philly  Makeshift matriarch in the Keke Palmer, Sza movie, One of Them Days Was in the room with Anne Marie Johnson  Jackie in What's Love Got to Do With It (1993) Also a dancer in the music video for What's Love Got to Do With It Laurence Fishburne accidentally smacks her in the diner scene Did nighttime soaps: Saints and Sinners and The Black Hamptons "Know your lines and be on time, no exceptions, no excuses" Plays Carol aka Veronica's mother in Shameless  Is a Stepp Sister in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls (VBC on far right) Michael Peters choreographed Dreamgirls Vanessa's review in the review for El Bravo in the NYT Bring Back Birdie with Donald O'Conner and Chita Rivera (directed by Joe Layton)  Purlie Victorious filmed for PBS Great Performances Debbie Allen directed her in Polly and its sequel Polly Coming Home, plus Stompin' at the Savoy Got a leaning board as Princess Imani in Coming to America  Sylvester Stallone maybe did NOT do his coverage in the last scene at Daylight  Played Johnnie Mae Matthews, the original manager of The Temptations tv miniseries The Inkwell has all-star cast that filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina (Wrightsville Beach) Has worked with Glynn Turman multiple times Sitcom with Anna Maria Horsford, Rhythm & Blues Gets speared through the neck in Death Spa (1988) Bebe's Kids (1992) Robin Harris died before production even started