{"id":3288,"date":"2021-06-13T08:34:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T08:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lauradowrich.com\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2021-08-09T20:06:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:06:46","slug":"canadian-actress-with-tobagonian-parents-breaks-barriers-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradowrich.com\/canadian-actress-with-tobagonian-parents-breaks-barriers-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian actress with Tobagonian parents breaks barriers on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Vinessa Antoine remembers her last trip to Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was 13 years old and visited for Christmas with her parents and brother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTill to this day it is the most memorable Christmas of my life,\u201d she says. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have gifts and Santa Claus and all of that, it was so much family and music and food. To me, that is what Christmas is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Antoine is a Canadian actress. The daughter of Tobagonian parents, Michael and Yolande Antoine, she is the first black person to ever play a lead role in a drama on Canadian television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She portrays the character Marcie Diggs on the CBC drama Diggstown, a role that earned her a nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series at the 9th<\/sup> Canadian Screen Awards this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diggstown is a series that follows Diggs, a corporate lawyer who, according to the show\u2019s description, reconsiders her priorities after a tragedy in her family following a malicious prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prior to Diggstown, Antoine starred in the CBC series Being Erica and the popular American soap General Hospital where she played the original Jordan Ashford, becoming the first black woman to have her name in the opening credits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n