Krystal Joy Brown

Krystal Joy Brown is an American actress who has performed in Broadway musicals and on television. She began with the national tour of Rent in 2007, playing Mimi, and reached Broadway two years later as a replacement in the revival of Hair. She originated Ornella Sturdevant in Leap of Faith in 2012 and Josephine Bloom in Big Fish in 2013, then assumed the part of Diana Ross in Motown: The Musical in 2014. Her profile rose when she stepped into Hamilton as Eliza Hamilton, and she earned a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for her Gussie Carnegie in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along. On television she appeared in Castle, Deadbeat, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, voiced Netossa in the Netflix animation She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, played Renee Timmons in Power Book III: Raising Kanan, and voiced Barbara Gordon in Batman: Caped Crusader. She starred in the 2023 holiday film Heaven Down Here.