{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Vanessa Bell Calloway","description":"You Might Know Her From Shameless, One of Them Days, Coming to America, Coming 2 America, Harriet, Bebe\u2019s Kids, Saints & Sinners, Daylight, the original cast of Dreamgirls on Broadway, and What\u2019s Love Got To Do With It? We talked to Vanessa about her full-circle Tina Turner moment from the \u201cWhat\u2019s Love Got to Do With It?\u201d music video to the Angela Bassett-led biopic; playing Tina\u2019s Ikette-turned-bestie Jackie; and the stunt gone wrong in the diner. Plus barking in Coming to America, acting opposite influencers and \u201chousewives,\u201d 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\u2019s 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\u2019s Love Got to Do With It (1993) Also a dancer in the music video for What\u2019s 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 \u201cKnow your lines and be on time, no exceptions, no excuses\u201d Plays Carol aka Veronica\u2019s mother in Shameless  Is a Stepp Sister in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls (VBC on far right) Michael Peters choreographed Dreamgirls Vanessa\u2019s review in the review for El Bravo in the NYT Bring Back Birdie with Donald O\u2019Conner 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\u2019 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\u2019s Kids (1992) Robin Harris died before production even started ","author_name":"You Might Know Her From","author_url":"http:\/\/youmightknowherfrom.libsyn.com\/website","html":"