Crystal McCrary McGuire is a writer, film producer and director, a former attorney and a broadcast personality.
11 Facts About Crystal McCrary
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Crystal McCrary is a creator and producer of entertainment content, including award-winning BET Networks shows Leading Women and Leading Men and youth basketball documentary Little Ballers.
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Crystal McCrary was born in October 24,1969, in Detroit, Michigan, to Magellan Gomez McCrary and Thelma Barrington, and into a family that includes 10 lawyers.
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Crystal McCrary rose to prominence as an entertainment lawyer, and married NBA basketball player Greg Anthony, with whom she had two children, including Orlando Magic point guard Cole Anthony, prior to divorcing.
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Crystal McCrary later married former Wall Street executive Ray McGuire, whom she joined on the campaign trail during his 2021 bid for Democratic mayoral candidate, and with whom she has one son.
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Crystal McCrary's second work, Gotham Diaries, grew out of a collaboration with Tonya Lewis Lee, who is a lawyer, and the spouse of filmmaker Spike Lee.
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Crystal McCrary began a film career in 2006, as an executive producer, with Nathan Hale Williams, for the feature film Dirty Laundry, which offers a perspective on homosexuality in Southern African-American families, winning top honors, including Best Feature Film award, at the American Black Film Festival in 2007.
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Crystal McCrary has developed projects with BET Networks, co-hosted My Two Cents, and served as executive producer, in 2006, for reality show My Model Is Better Than Your Model, and for the series Real-Life Divas, which profiles African-American women and ran for four seasons.
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Crystal McCrary was executive producer for documentary series Leading Women and Leading Men, which earned an NAACP Image Award nomination in 2009.
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Crystal McCrary has been featured in People, Essence and Newsweek, and has appeared as herself in a variety of productions, including Today, Good Morning America, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, in 2006, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, in 2008, Closet Envy, in 2010, and Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, during 2010 to 2011.
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Crystal McCrary appeared as a pop-culture commentator on American Morning for CNN in 2004 and 2005.