Reese Antoinette is a Caribbean-American actress whose work spans television, film, music,and immersive storytelling. She will next be seen in Showtime’s Dexter: Resurrection, premiering July 2025. She was last seen as “Dawnie” on Apple TV’s Bad Monkey opposite Vince Vaughn and as “Renee” in the feature film The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire.
Reese also produced and starred as Kiki in the horror-comedy short Sam & Kiki, which premiered in October 2023 at the 23rd Annual Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Reese is also a singer and in August 2023 released the R&B/reggae single “What Is Love” in collaboration with Tuff Gong International Records. The single is available on all major streaming platforms. Reese holds an MFA in Acting from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, studied at the British American Drama Academy at Oxford University, and earned a BA in Communications with a minor in music from Manhattan College. She is a committed advocate for women, immigrants, and youth empowerment—having served as Graduate Student Senator and Head of Diversity at NYU and as a mentor for Ghetto Film School, an arts nonprofit which aims to educate, develop and celebrate the next generation of great storytellers.
She is also the co-founder of The ORIXA Project, an immersive storytelling initiative that explores Black women’s narratives through live performance, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Reese has been an Artist-in-Residence at Columbia University’s Barnard College and is a member of the ONX Studio at The Onassis Foundation.
A New York native, she now splits her time between NYC, Los Angeles, and Miami.