<P> The cast also includes : Frankie Faison as Mr. Townsend , Akeem and Semmi 's landlord in Queens ; Vanessa Bell as Imani Izzi , Akeem 's arranged wife , and Calvin Lockhart as Colonel Izzi , her father ; Louie Anderson as Maurice , a McDowell 's employee ; Allison Dean as Patrice McDowell , Cleo 's youngest daughter and Lisa 's sister ; Samuel L. Jackson as a robber ; Vondie Curtis - Hall as the Basketball game vendor ; Garcelle Beauvais as a rose bearer ; Victoria Dillard as one of Akeem 's Zamundan attendants , and Clint Smith as Sweets . Cuba Gooding Jr. made his film debut as a barber shop customer ( he was credited as Boy Getting Haircut ) . Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy reprise their roles as , respectively , Mortimer and Randolph Duke from Landis ' 1983 Murphy - starring comedy film Trading Places . A segment of the Trading Places score can be heard during their scene . The Dukes ' limo driver from that film also cameos as the driver of Akeem and Semmi 's limo . </P>
<P> The cast also includes : Frankie Faison as Mr. Townsend , Akeem and Semmi 's landlord in Queens ; Vanessa Bell as Imani Izzi , Akeem 's arranged wife , and Calvin Lockhart as Colonel Izzi , her father ; Louie Anderson as Maurice , a McDowell 's employee ; Allison Dean as Patrice McDowell , Cleo 's youngest daughter and Lisa 's sister ; Samuel L. Jackson as a robber ; Vondie Curtis - Hall as the Basketball game vendor ; Garcelle Beauvais as a rose bearer ; Victoria Dillard as one of Akeem 's Zamundan attendants , and Clint Smith as Sweets . Cuba Gooding Jr. made his film debut as a barber shop customer ( he was credited as Boy Getting Haircut ) . Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy reprise their roles as , respectively , Mortimer and Randolph Duke from Landis ' 1983 Murphy - starring comedy film Trading Places . A segment of the Trading Places score can be heard during their scene . The Dukes ' limo driver from that film also cameos as the driver of Akeem and Semmi 's limo . </P>
who played lisa 's sister in coming to america
who played lisa 's sister in coming to america
Allison Dean
Allison Dean