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 O Nascimento de Uma Nação (1915), her comedic performances in Harold Lloyd's Haroldo Veloz (1928) and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's Apenas um Ligeiro Engano (1929). She also played a succession of queens and princesses in such films as Main Street (1923), Provocação de Amor (1926), Rei dos Reis (1927) and O Homem que Ri (1928).
