18 Facts About Regina Taylor

Regina Taylor has won several awards throughout her career, including a Golden Globe Award and NAACP Image Award.

In July 2017, Taylor was announced as the new Denzel Washington Endowed Chair in Theater at Fordham University.

At the age of 12, Regina Taylor moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma.

Regina Taylor became well known to the television viewing public for her role as Lilly Harper on the early 1990s TV series I'll Fly Away.

In 2018, Regina Taylor had a role as Dr Hannah Moshay in season 5 of the highly successful NBC crime thriller series The Blacklist.

Regina Taylor was a cast member for all four seasons of the CBS drama The Unit.

Regina Taylor is an accomplished stage actress, and was the first black woman to play Juliet in Romeo and Juliet on Broadway.

Regina Taylor appeared in Off-Broadway and regional productions of such plays as Jar the Floor, Machinal, L'Illusion, and A Map of the World.

Regina Taylor appeared as "Ariel" in The Tempest at the La Jolla Playhouse, California in 1987, for which she received a Dramalogue Award.

In 2016, Regina Taylor starred in the original pilot of Time After Time as Vanessa Anders, but was replaced by Nicole Ari Parker before the series aired, containing a new pilot with Parker.

Regina Taylor wrote Escape from Paradise, a one-woman show which was produced at the Goodman Theatre Studio, Chicago, in October 1995.

Regina Taylor's short plays Watermelon Rinds and Inside the Belly of the Beast were incorporated into a program at the Goodman Theatre Studio in 1994.

Regina Taylor wrote and appeared in the play Millennium Mambo, a one-woman work, presented at the Goodman Theatre in February 2000.

Regina Taylor wrote the play A Night in Tunisia, which premiered during the 2000 Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

In 2000, Regina Taylor won a best new play award from the American Critics' Association for Oo-Bla-Dee, a play about 1940s female jazz musicians.

Regina Taylor wrote and directed Crowns, which is a co-production of the McCarter Theatre, where it premiered in October 2002 and the Second Stage Theatre, produced in December 2002.

Regina Taylor wrote and directed an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull titled Drowning Crow.

Regina Taylor returned to the Goodman Theatre in January and February 2011 for the world premiere of her new play entitled The Trinity River Plays, a co-production with Dallas Theater Center, directed by Ethan McSweeny.