Josephine Crowell was a Canadian-born character actress. She appeared in vaudeville as early as 1879. On screen, she is best remembered for her dramatic portrayal of the mother in D.W. Griffith's El nacimiento de una nación (1915), her comedic performances in Harold Lloyd's Relámpago (1928) and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's Wrong Again (1929). She also played a succession of queens and princesses in such films as La calle mayor (1923), Flor de capricho (1926), El rey de reyes (1927) and El hombre que ríe (1928).
