THE GREAT PRETENDER

I got into acting because I was doing too much cocaine after I graduated high school,” says actress Rachel Crowl with refreshing frankness. The multi-talented performer (she’s also a photographer and musician) exudes a cool confidence and quick wit that is immediately disarming and endearing. This woman knows exactly who she is—and knows how to have fun with it.

I made a deal with the universe…. You can have my acting career if I can have a decent quality of life.

“I graduated high school in the ’80s, and I was supposed to go to college because I was an upper-middle class white kid, and that was the expectation,” continues Crowl, a woman of transgender experience, on how she got”