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Regina Taylor

Regina Taylor TV Listings

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CINEMAXFri, Dec 5, 2:00 PMThe NegotiatorBuy
CBSSat, Dec 6, 8:00 PMThe UnitBuy
BETSun, Dec 7, 7:30 PMLean on MeBuy
CINEMAXSun, Dec 14, 2:05 PMThe NegotiatorBuy
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Regina Taylor Biography

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  • Birth Name: Regina Annette Taylor
  • Birth Place: Dallas, TX
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: August 22,
  • Profession: Actor; playwright
A versatile character actress who worked on stage before coming to prominence on the small screen, Taylor manages to exude fierce intelligence without saying a word. After earning a Golden Globe and two Emmy nods for her performance as a conflicted nanny on the critically acclaimed Civil Rights-era drama I'll Fly Away, she tackled supporting roles in a string of features while simultaneously pursuing a career as a playwright. By the late '90s, perhaps fed up with the lack of challenging screen roles available for black women, she focused her attention on the stage and all but fell off the Hollywood radar. She resurfaced in 2006 as the supportive wife of a military man on The Unit.
Regina Taylor Fast Facts:
  • Intended to become a journalist, but switched her focus to theater after taking her first acting class in college.
  • Landed her first professional acting job while still a college student in the TV-movie Crisis at Central High (1981).
  • Was the first black woman to play Juliet in Romeo and Juliet on Broadway.
  • An artistic associate of the famed Goodman Theater in Chicago, she has written a number of plays including Oo-Bla-Dee, A Night in Tunisia, Escape from Paradise, Watermelon Rinds, Inside the Belly of the Beast, Crowns, The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove, and one Broadway show, Drowning Crow, her critically reviled adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.
    Regina Taylor Relationships:
  • Leannell 'Nell' Taylor - Mother

    • Regina Taylor Awards:
  • 1993 Golden Globe: Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama - Winner
  • 1992 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series - Nominee
  • 1993 Emmy: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series - Nominee

  • College:
  • Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (1981)
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