Playing Princess Imani Izzi, she is arranged to be married to Eddie Murphy’s Prince Akeem at the start of the film… but suffers the issue of not having a personality divorced from her devotion to her would-be husband.
In John Landis’ Coming To America, Vanessa Bell Calloway plays what is an incredibly memorable role.
For a small part it is a great one – though the actor has now come out saying that she feels she would have had a much bigger part in the film if she had lighter skin.