Tawny Cypress has appeared in various television and stage plays.
10 Facts About Tawny Cypress
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Tawny Cypress starred as art dealer Simone Deveaux on the TV series Heroes.
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Tawny Cypress previously held roles on several TV series, including Fox's drama K-Ville as Ginger "Love Tap" LeBeau, Carly Heath on House of Cards, and Cherie Rollins-Murray on the second and third seasons of the CBS series Unforgettable.
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Since 2021, Tawny Cypress has starred as Taissa Turner on Showtime's Yellowjackets.
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Tawny Cypress attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
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Tawny Cypress attended William Esper Studio, where she was invited to teach in 2020.
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Tawny Cypress had a main role in The Blacklist: Redemption as Nez Rowan, a mercenary.
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In 2021, Tawny Cypress was cast on Yellowjackets in the main role of Taissa Turner, a survivor of a horrific plane crash in the 1990s, now running for the New Jersey State Senate while trying to keep quiet the demons of eighteen months of survival in the Canadian wilderness.
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Tawny Cypress's mother is of Hungarian descent and her father was Black and Native American, a descendent of the Accawmacke Nation of the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
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Tawny Cypress revealed in the documentary Queer for Fear that she is attracted to women.