‘This Is Us’ Casts Vanessa Bell Calloway As Key Character; Behind Tonight’s Nicky Flashforward Twist

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SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about NBC’s January 11 This Is Us episode, “Lovebirds.”This Is Us resolved two flashforward mysteries tonight: who was in the white car pulling into Kevin’s driveway, and who Nicky is married to in the future.The answer to both is Edie, a new character introduced at the end of Episode 2 of This Is Us‘ final season.

She is played by veteran actress Vanessa Bell Calloway, probably best known for her roles in the Coming to America movie franchise and in Showtime’s Shameless.

She will be recurring, appearing in a few episodes, This Is Us creator/executive producer Dan Fogelman confirmed to Deadline.The episode, “Lovebirds,” juxtaposed two road trips: Nicky, joined by Rebecca and Miguel, drove to see his long-lost love, Sally, for whom he had been pining for decades.

Meanwhile, Deja takes the bus to Boston to visit her boyfriend, Malik, who is now at Harvard, and the two have sex.Sally, the one who got away after Nicky ages ago could not find the courage to leave Pittsburgh and follow her to Woodstock, has been a popular theory as to whom Nicky would get married to. (He has been seen wearing a wedding band while sitting by Rebecca’s bedside in the main 2030s flashforward the series has been building toward, and referred to his “wife” in the Kate’s wedding flashforward 4-5 years into the future.)There have been wilder fan hypotheses, from Nicky marrying the much younger Cassidy, played by Jennifer Morrison, to him settling down with his late brother’s widow, Mandy Moore’s Rebecca, which Fogelman has dismissed as farfetched.During Nicky, Rebecca and Miguel’s sit-down with Sally, Rebecca gives the heartbreaking speech about her fears over the devastating impact of Alzheimer’s that was