VH1 All I Didn’t Want for Christmas cast is led by Andrew Bushell and Academy Award nominee Gabourey Sidibe. The movie is set to release on December 7, 2022.
All I Didn’t Want for Christmas is one of the most anticipated movies from VH1’s Christmas Line Up for 2022, along with A New Diva’s Christmas Carol and Fuhgeddabout Christmas, all of which are yet to release.
Directed by Brittany Scott Smith from A Black Lady Sketch Show, the movie is a story of holiday wishes gone wrong. And, Gabourey Sidibe quotes, “Finally, a feel-good Holiday Story for adults who hate feel-good Holiday Stories.”
Here’s What We Know of All I Didn’t Want For Christmas Cast
Gabourey Sidibe and Andrew Russell are the main VH1 All I Didn’t Want For Christmas leads. The comedy movie lands on the screens as Christmas approaches.
The TV movie has a great lineup of actors in the main lead and supporting roles. Let’s meet the cast of VH1’s soon-coming holiday Comedy.
Gabourey Sidibe as Emily Harris
Gabourey Sidibe is an Academy Award nominee known for her debut role in the 2009 film Precious. The actress received Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead and earned nominations at the Golden Globes and Oscars.
39-year-old Sidibey is from Bedford–the Stuyvesant neighborhood, Brooklyn, NYC. She was raised in Harlem by her mother, Alice Tan Ridley, an American R&B and gospel singer, and Senegalese father, Ibnou Sidibe.
The actress made her first TV appearance as an SNL host for an episode in 2010. She was cast as one of the leads in Fox’s musical drama series Empire, created by Lee Daniels Danny Williams, playing Becky Williams.
Sidibe was previously featured in one of the episodes of American Horror Stories as Jaslyn Taylor. Her other notable TV and Film roles include Tower Heist, White Bird in a Blizzard, Antebellum, BoJack Horseman, and Difficult People.
Andrew Bushell as Wyatt
Canadian actor Andrew Bushell is popularly known for his roles in feel-good holiday-themed movies such as Secretly Santa, Dashing Home for Christmas, and Christmas Catch. Originally from Alberta, the actor is also an improviser based in Toronto, Ontario.
Aside from the VH1 movie, Bushell will next appear in Max Mcguire’s holiday special, Record Breaking Christmas. he plays the role of Devan Bancroft opposite actress Michelle Argyris playing Leah.
The actor has 20 known acting credits under his name, predominated by holiday movies such as Christmas Plus One, Secretly Santa, Dashing Home for Christmas, Twinkle All the Way, and Christmas Catch.
The 2020 film Jump Darlin saw the actor play Justin, one of the leads, alongside Cloris Leachman and Thomas Duplessie. Bushell was also featured in the political thriller, Designated Survivor as Staffer Dennis in 2017.
Loretta Devine as Lorraine
Veteran actress Loretta Devine, 73, has been professionally acting since 1977. She rose to fame with her performance in the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls, playing one of the three original “Dreamgirls,” Lorrell Robinson.
Her feature film Will, by Jessie Maple, is the first independent feature-length film directed by an African-American woman. Her roles in Waiting to Exhale and The Preacher’s Wife earned her NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture.
Devine made a recurring appearance as Dr. Richard Webber’s first wife, Adele, in the medical drama series Grey’s Anatomy, for which she received Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in the drama series.
The Houston, Texas native is also a singer and voice actor. She has worked beside famous singers such as Whitney Houston and Gregory Hines. Devine has starred in several TV and movies in her forty-five-year-long career.
Kel Mitchell as Wolf
South side Chicago actor and stand-up comedian Kel was born Kel Johari Rice Mitchell on August 25, 1978. The actor is also a pastor at Spirit Food Christian Center in Winnetka, Los Angeles.
At the age of 15, Kel got featured as one of the cast in the Nickelodeon comedy sketch series, All That, for five seasons, opposite Kennan Thompson. The comedy duo later worked in the Nickelodeon sitcom Kenan & Kel.
His role in the animated series Clifford the Big Red Dog as T-Bone earned him nominations at the Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program in 2001 and 2002.
Kel and his partner Whitney Carson ended up as the runner-up on the reality show Dancing with the Stars in 2019. He also works as a music video director and shot the video for the Pop artist “V.Rose” featuring Billboard’s top charting hip-hop artist “Flame.”
The remaining cast for All I Didn’t Want From Christmas Include:
- Karen Knox as Ginger
- Darrin Baker as Spicer
- Jessica Clement as Boss Elf
- David Pinard as Chet Charles
- Jenna Katz as Janice Bryce
- Cnnie Wang as Sylvie
- Sarah Cleveland as a photographer
All I Didn’t Want For Christmas is Releasing This Holiday Season
VH1’s All I Didn’t Want For Christmas is releasing on December 7, 2022, at 8/7c. Written by Noelle Stehman and Betsy Van Stone, the movie follows Emily Harris (Gabourey Sidibe) chasing away her holiday woes.
While the rest of the world is getting into the holiday spirits, Emily Harris is doing not so great. With Christmas just around the corner, Emily desperately attempts to improve her life and drunkenly writes a letter to Santa.
Fortunately, and unfortunately, her wine-soaked wishes start coming true, but the problem is, she doesn’t remember most of what she wrote in the letter. So Emily here is in for lots of surprises. Which eventually leads to some Christmas-fueled soul-searching about herself.
The holiday comedy is Blue Ice Pictures production, and Josh Van Houdt, Lance Samuels, and Samantha Levine serve as the executive producers. Additionally, lead actress Gabourey Sidibe is also executively producing the movie.
All I Didn’t Want For Christmas will run 1 hour and 30 minutes and air on the VH1 network this Wednesday at 8 o’clock Eastern Time or 7 o’clock Central time.
Make your Christmas merry and joyous with the main leads Gabourey Sidibe and Andrew Bushell in VH1 All I Didn’t Want For Christmas on December 7.