Rachael Crawford
Rachael Crawford (born c. 1969 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is an actress best known for her roles in Brewster Place, Here and Now, and Show Me Yours, as well as guest appearances on various television series such as Cold Squad, Crossing Jordan, and more recently The Firm and Suits. Throughout her career, Crawford has received three Canadian Screen Award nominations. Career Crawford began her acting career in the mid-1980s. She portrayed Renee, a teenage cousin of Mr. T's character, in crime drama T. and T. Crawford won the role of Kiswana Browne in the Oprah Winfrey produced series Brewster Place (1990), replacing Robin Givens who portrayed the character in The Women of Brewster Place. Crawford appeared regularly as college student Danielle in the sitcom Here and Now. She appeared in various television movies during the 1990s. Crawford played the lead role of Tai Babilonia in biopic On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story. In 1996's Captive Heart: The James Mink Story, Crawford appeared as Myra Mink, a young black woman in the 1850s who becomes enslaved by her husband, a white man. James Mink was played by Louis Gossett Jr. She worked with Gossett again the following year, with In