London Rose Sellars - Exclusive Interview - Wed, May 6, 2020 - 7pm PST

At Seven, London Rose Has Landed Two Tyler Perry Shows And An Oscar-Nominated Film. 

Tucked away in her homeschool room in Lexington, Kentucky, London Rose Sellars is your typical seven-year-old. She goes through her lessons and plays with her toys, shrugging off the fact that she is one of the most talked-about television kids right now as viewers of Tyler Perry’s ‘The Oval’ wonder where her character Callie ended up after being kidnapped by her birth mother.

So far, viewers have learned that Tyler Perry’s spinoff show ‘Ruthless’ will feature a woman in a cult trying to free herself and her daughter and they are hoping the scene-stealing Callie will reappear.

The Memphis-born child actress is too young to watch the show but when she’s in Atlanta, whether it's at the airport or taking an Uber, adults do a double-take. 

“If it’s not that, then they realize she’s the little girl who was kidnapped in ‘The Oval’,” her mother Meckaela laughs. “It’s truly surreal to go from just minding your business to adults who watch Tyler Perry shows automatically calling your child out by her character’s name.”

London Rose started out as a model and has done Disney campaigns and more. That eventually evolved to acting which led to her being cast on BET’s top-rated new show for fall 2019, written and directed by Tyler Perry.

“You have to listen and do what the director says,” London Rose says of acting. “Sometimes it’s hard because you have to remember a lot and you have to do it over and over until it’s right. Then sometimes you feel happy but you still have to act like you’re really sad and cry.