Antoinette Crowe-Legacy | |
|---|---|
| Born | Texas, United States |
| Education | Southern Methodist University (BFA) Yale School of Drama (MFA) |
| Occupation | Actress |
Antoinette Crowe-Legacy [1] is an American actress best known for her role as Elise Johnson, the daughter of Bumpy Johnson, in the Epix series Godfather of Harlem . [2]
Crowe-Legacy was raised in Garland, Texas and attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. In 2010, she was a finalist for a National YoungArts Foundation award. [3]
Crowe-Legacy attended Southern Methodist University, performing in a 2013 production of The Odd Couple at the Dallas Theater Center. [4] In 2018, she graduated from the Yale School of Drama, where she received the Carol Finch Dye Award. [5] [6]
While at Yale, Crowe-Legacy appeared in productions of Three Sisters , Seven Guitars , and Our Lady of 121st Street. [7] [8] She performed in the Playwrights Horizons premiere of If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka by Tori Sampson and the Off-Broadway premiere of BLKS by Aziza Barnes in 2019. [5] [9] That year, she made her screen debut as Elise Johnson, the daughter of Bumpy Johnson as played by Forest Whitaker, in Godfather of Harlem on Epix. [2] [6]
In 2021, Crowe-Legacy featured in Passing , a film adaptation of the Nella Larsen novel of the same name directed by Rebecca Hall. [10] She also served as the replacement for the role of Kaneisha in that year's Broadway production of Slave Play , a role she had originated during the initial 2017 reading of the play as she attended Yale alongside playwright Jeremy O. Harris. [11] [12]
Crowe-Legacy appeared in two episodes of the 2022 Apple TV+ series WeCrashed as Leslie, a WeWork employee. [13] She performed in the original cast of another Tori Sampson play, This Land Was Made, at the Vineyard Theatre in 2023. [14] That fall, she portrayed Hermione in a production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale at the Folger Theatre in Washington, DC. [15]
| Year | Title | Role | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Passing | Felise | [10] |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019–2023 | Godfather of Harlem | Elise Johnson | 31 episodes | [2] |
| 2022 | WeCrashed | Leslie | 2 episodes | [13] |
| Year | Production | Role | Venue | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | The Odd Couple | Cecily Pigeon | Dallas Theater Center | Credited as Antoinette Crowe | [4] |
| 2019 | If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka | Massassi | Playwrights Horizons | — | [5] |
| BLKS | June | Newman Mills Theater | — | [16] | |
| 2021 | Slave Play | Kaneisha | August Wilson Theatre | Originated the role during the play's 2017 reading at Yale | [12] |
| 2023 | This Land Was Made | Sassy | Vineyard Theatre | — | [14] |
| The Winter's Tale | Hermione | Folger Theatre | — | [15] |