Antoinette Crowe-Legacy

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Antoinette Crowe-Legacy
Born
Texas, United States
Education Southern Methodist University (BFA)
Yale School of Drama (MFA)
OccupationActress

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]

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Early life and education

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 form the Yale School of Drama, where she received the Carol Finch Dye Award. [5] [6]

Career

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]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleRef.
2021 Passing Felise [10]

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2019–2023 Godfather of Harlem Elise Johnson31 episodes [2]
2022 WeCrashed Leslie2 episodes [13]

Theatre

YearProductionRoleVenueNotesRef.
2013 The Odd Couple Cecily Pigeon Dallas Theater Center Credited as Antoinette Crowe [4]
2019If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a MuhfuckaMassassi Playwrights Horizons [5]
BLKSJune Newman Mills Theater [16]
2021 Slave Play Kaneisha August Wilson Theatre Originated the role during the play's 2017 reading at Yale [12]
2023This Land Was MadeSassy Vineyard Theatre [14]
The Winter's Tale Hermione Folger Theatre [15]

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