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Saints & Sinners Review: Calloway’s “First Lady Ella Johnson is a force to be reckoned with!”
Article reprinted from The Plain Dealer, March 6, 2016:
Set in a small Georgia town near Atlanta, the new drama ”Saints & Sinners” is a steamy mix of deceit, greed, corruption and murder. Might the setting for this power struggle be City Hall, a powerful local business or maybe a hospital?
Nope. Welcome to the Greater Hope Baptist Church. Premiering tonight on Bounce TV, the network founded in 2011 for black viewers, ”Saints & Sinners” explores the complex world of a church that’s a major player in a small town.
Looming over that world is the formidable figure of ”first lady” Ella Johnson, played by Vanessa Bell Calloway.
”One of the things that most appealed to me about this series is that the women are so strong,” said Bell Calloway, the Toledo native who grew up in Cleveland. ”Not just me, but the mayor, played by Gloria Reuben, and my daughter, played by Jasmine Burke. These are very strong female characters, and Lady Ella is not your typical sit-inthe-church-with-a-new-hatevery- Sunday kind of firstlady.” No, she’s not. When she speaks her mind, you’d better listen.
Sunday March 6th Premiere: Vanessa Bell Calloway in Bounce TV’s “Saints & Sinners”
It’s like Empire in the church! Watch #SaintsandSinners @bouncetv Sunday at 9pm.
bnce.tv/find-us – find your local listing.
Coming Soon: Bounce TV original drama “Saints & Sinners”, starring Vanessa Bell Calloway
Bounce TV — the nation’s first and only broadcast television network designed for African-American (AA) audiences and TV’s fastest-growing AA network — is expanding into hour-long drama with Saints & Sinners, which will center around the pursuit of power, intertwined with deceit, greed, corruption and murder – all set against the backdrop of a large southern church.
Vanessa Bell Calloway Cast in A&E’s Crime Drama: “The Infamous”
Casting has begun on A&E’s pilot for what will be a pre-riots 1990s-set Los Angeles crime drama, titled “The Infamous,” which hails from Joshua Zetumer (writer of the upcoming X-Men “Gambit” spinoff), and will follow the collision between a reformed South Central gangster looking to leave his criminal past behind him (but they keep pulling him back in, I’m sure), and the LAPD detective who is determined to take him down.
Vanessa Bell Calloway has landed a series regular role, playing Ellie, a mother (likely to one of the two leads) and gifted singer who once performed with James Brown but now drives a city bus.
Interview: Black Actress Web Series [VIDEO]
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Vanessa Bell Calloway offers sage advice and words of wisdom in her interview on the web series Black Actress. Black Actress is a mockumentary that follows the life of “Kori Bailey” (played by Andrea Lewis), as she struggles with the pursuit of getting her big break. and other prominent black actresses everyday struggle to succeed in an industry that thrives on stereotypes.
In Her Words: Vanessa Bell Calloway Shares Her Breast Cancer Survival Story
Six years ago, I woke up from my sleep with the funniest feeling. Others call it a hunch or voices from the dead, but I knew God was whispering in my ear to tell me something was wrong. Even though I wasn’t in any pain, I needed to call my physician as soon as possible for an appointment.
I wanted every test he could administer in his office, so he gave me a CAT scan and blood work. Then he asked, “When was your last mammogram?”
I had missed my test that year by about four months, because the clinic I frequented had closed permanently and I hadn’t found another yet. My doctor suggested a facility right down the street from his office, so I went that same day for an examination.
A couple of days later, the nurses called and said there were some suspicious calcifications in my right breast. I told myself at that moment, “That’s what God was telling me.”
I went back, and the radiologist read my x-ray to point out some questionable white dots. Although he couldn’t detect anything specific until I had a biopsy, I believed it was cancer. Days later, I found out I was right.
“Letters from Zora” is coming to Washington, DC!
Who Killed Wendy? Watch the New “Divas” Movie Trailer
In Hollywood, you don’t get to the top without making a few enemies.
When a conniving and bitchy Hollywood diva mysteriously turns up dead, no one who knew her is surprised. Now everyone from her co-stars to her director is a suspect and an ambitious police detective, who’s also an aspiring screenwriter/actor/rapper, must get to the bottom of this hilarious Hollywood whodunit.
On DVD and On Demand April 28th | Facebook: facebook.com/divasmovie | Twitter: @divasmovie | Vine: vine.co/divasmovie
“News One Now” Interviews Vanessa Bell Calloway on her new movie “To Hell and Back” [Video]
This Easter weekend TV One will air its latest movie “To Hell and Back” starting Ernie Hudson and Vanessa Bell Calloway.
The new and original production will premiere on Saturday, April 4th at8PM/ET and is a modern day adaptation of “The Book of Job.”
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