Antoinette Crowe-Legacy

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]

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

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 from 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

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2021	Passing	Felise	[10]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2019–2023	Godfather of Harlem	Elise Johnson	31 episodes	[2]
2022	WeCrashed	Leslie	2 episodes	[13]

Theatre

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]