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Regina Taylor on CBS's "The Unit" |
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Regina Taylor is best known to television audiences for her role as Lilly Harper in the series "I'll Fly Away," for which she won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Regina Taylor was nominated in 2007 for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her work in "The Unit." She was nominated again and won in 2008.
Regina Taylor made her professional acting debut on CBS in the movie "Crisis at Central High." Regina Taylor's other television credits include the series "The Education of Max Bickford," on the Network, and "Feds" as well as television movies "In From the Night," "Cora Unashamed," "Strange Justice," "The Third Twin" "Hostile Waters," "Children of the Dust," "I'll Fly Away: Then and Now," "Howard Beach: Making a Case for Murder," "Concealed Enemies," "Crisis at Central High" and "Nurse."
Regina Taylor's feature film credits include "The Negotiator," "Courage Under Fire," "A Family Thing," "The Keeper," "Clockers," "Losing Isaiah," "Jersey Girl" and "Lean on Me." She was the first Black woman to play William Shakespeare's Juliet in Broadway's "Romeo and Juliet." Regina Taylor's other theater credits include "As You Like It," "Macbeth," "Machinal," "A Map of The World," "The Illusion" and "Jar the Floor." In addition, Regina Taylor won the L.A. Dramalogue Award for her performance in "The Tempest" on the west coast.
Regina Taylor's credits as playwright include "Oo-Bla-Dee," for which she won the American Critics' Association new play award, "Drowning Crow," (her adaptation of Chekhov's "The Seagull," which was produced on Broadway by Manhattan Theatre Club in its inaugural season at the Biltmore Theatre and starred Alfre Woodard), "A Night in Tunisia," "Escape from Paradise," "Watermelon Rinds," and "Inside the Belly of the Beast." Taylor's critically acclaimed "Crowns" was the most performed musical in the country this past year. Regina Taylor's play "The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove" opened at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in June 2006 where she is a member and Artistic Associate. Regina Taylor is also currently Playwright in Residence at the Magnolia Theatre in Atlanta.
Regina Taylor was raised in Dallas and currently resides there.
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