Regina Taylor Bio, Age, Husband, Playwright, Weight Loss, Crowns, Awards, Movies

Regina Taylor Biography

Regina Taylor (Regina Annette Taylor) is an American actress and playwright; who has won several awards throughout her career, including a Golden Globe Award and NAACP Image Award.

Regina was in July 2017, announced as the new Denzel Washington Endowed Chair in Theatre at Fordham University’s theatre program.

Regina Taylor Career

She began acting while she was studying at Southern Methodist University where she played in the 1980’s Nurse and 1981’s Crisis at Central High.

She gained widespread attention after playing Mrs. Carter, the drug-addicted mother of a promising young female student, in the 1989 film Lean on Me.

Her role as Lilly Harper on the early 1990s TV series I’ll Fly Away, gained her more acclaim. It is the role that won her a Golden Globe award for Best Actress in a Television Drama as well as an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series.

Taylor has since appeared in so many other films. Some of them are like Spike Lee film Clockers, Courage Under Fire, A Family Thing, and The Negotiator. She was also a cast in all of the easons of the CBS drama The Unit as Molly Blane.

Regina Taylor Actress | Regina Taylor Playwright

Regina is a writer-in-residence at Signature Theatre, where her new play stop.reset. premiered at the Off-Broadway Pershing Square Signature Center on September 8, 2013, and she also directed the production. She is a Distinguished Artistic Associate of Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.

Regina wrote Escape From Paradise which is a one-woman show that was produced at the Goodman Theatre Studio, Chicago, in October 1995. Her other short plays Watermelon Rinds and Inside the Belly of the Beast were incorporated into a program at the Goodman Theatre Studio in 1994.

A play she had written and appeared in, Millennium Mambo, a one-woman work was presented at the Goodman Theatre in February 2000. This work included short pieces by playwrights Adrienne Kennedy, Ntozake Shange, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Kia Corthron. She also wrote the play, A Night in Tunisia which premiered during the 2000 Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

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

She also wrote and directed Crowns, a co-production of the McCarter Theatre, where it premiered in October 2002 and the Second Stage Theatre, produced in December 2002. Regina also wrote and directed an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull titled Drowning Crow, which was produced on Broadway in February 2004 by the Manhattan Theatre Club at the Biltmore Theatre, directed by Marion McClinton.

In addition, she also wrote and directed The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove, which is a dramatic rendering of the financial gains and emotional losses of African-American businesswoman Madam C.J. Walker. It received its world premiere production in January 2005 at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Her play, Magnolia, which is set during the beginning of desegregation in Atlanta in 1963, premiered on March 2009 at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.

Regina Taylor Age

Regina was born on August 22, 1960, Dallas, Texas, U.S.

Regina Taylor Husband

Regina has been very secretive about her dating life and she has not dated anyone publicly. It has been rumored that she is married and is staying with her secret husband but no one has come out to confirm if the rumors are true or not.

Regina Taylor Body Measurements

Height: ‎5 Feet 8 Inches
Weight: 54 kg
Shoe Size: 8 US
Body Shape: Not Available
Hair Colour: Not Available
Eye Colour: Brown

Regina Taylor Net Worth

Taylor has an estimated net worth of around $3 million.

Regina Taylor Crowns

Crowns is a musical written and directed by Regina and is a co-production of the McCarter Theatre.

Crowns is a coming of age story about a 17-year-old girl, Yolanda who is on a self-destructive path running the mean Englewood streets of Chicago.

Her mother sends her down south to live with her Grandma Shaw after her brother is shot
and killed. Her grandma Shaw, introduces her to her circle of “Hat Queens”(each
woman owns at least one hundred hats).

Yolanda tells her story in a mix of hip-hop and spoken word. Her sound is mixed
with gospel, jazz, blues, R&B and other idioms of the women who become a part of
her life. Yolanda, at first, thinks these women have nothing in common – think “Joy
Luck Club” or “The Secret Life of Bees”- as this community joins together to save
Yolanda’s life.

Each of their hats holds a story of a wedding, funeral, baptism as they share their
stories of how they moved through life’s struggles. They then baptize Yolanda in
history/memory and Yolanda realizes she’s not alone in her feelings. She realizes the hats aren’t just a fashion statement. They are testimonies of sisterhood and they are hard earned Crowns.

Yolanda returns to Chicago with new eyes and she now can see better, where she’s from, who she is and where she’s going.

Regina Taylor Lean On Me

Lean on Me, is a 1989 American biographical drama film. It was written by Michael Schiffer and directed by John G. Avildsen.

The film is loosely based on the story of Joe Louis Clark, a real life inner city high school principal in Paterson, New Jersey. His school is at risk of being taken over by the New Jersey state government unless students improve their test scores on the New Jersey Minimum Basic Skills Test.

The film’s title refers to the 1972 Bill Withers song of the same name and parts of the film, including the elementary school scenes, were filmed in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.

In the film, Regina played Mrs. Carter, the drug-addicted mother of a promising young female student.

Regina Taylor Weight Loss

Regina had a weight loss surgery and she lost 185 pounds. Speaking about the surgery, she said, “On December 03, 2002, My life changed forever. I elected to have WLS & experienced every complication you could imagine & today I believe that I’m a better me because of it. People ask me all the time do I have any regrets and the answer is and always will be no. From 360lbs to 175lbs.

I had the RNY (Roux-en-y Gastric Bypass). I’m very particular about what I eat. I do a lot of juicing, fresh fruits & veggies. I try to stick with all-natural products and it’s rare that I eat out.” She also revealed that she runs 5 miles 4 days a week and hit the gym 3 days a week. The weird part is before surgery I was walking 6miles a day and eating pretty healthy.”

Regina Taylor Blacklist

In the film, The Blacklist, Regina played Dr. Hannah Moshay in the episode, Pattie Sue Edwards.

Regina Taylor Plays

stop.reset.
Escape From Paradise
Watermelon Rinds
Inside the Belly of the Beast
Mudtracks
Love Poem #97
Love Poem #98
Millennium Mambo
A Night in Tunisia
Crowns
Drowning Crow
The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove
Magnolia
The Trinity River Plays

Regina Taylor Awards

Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Viewers for Quality Television Award for Best Actress in a Quality Drama Series (1992–93)
Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture – Nominated (1995)
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series (1992–93)
Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture – Nominated (1996)
Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – Nominated (1995)
Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film – Nominated (1999)
Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Image Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series – Nominated

Regina Taylor Movies

All Day & A Night (2019)
The Blacklist – Dr. Hannah Moshay (2018)
Saturday Church – Aunt Rose (2017)
Time After Time – Vanessa Anders (2016)
Elementary – Dr Wilkerson (2016)
Dig – Ruth Lidell (2015)
Who Is Clark Rockefeller? – Megan Norton (2010)
Grey’s Anatomy – Greta (2008)
The Unit – Molly Blane (2006 – 2009)
In From the Night – Dr. A. Gardner (2006)
The Education of Max Bickford – Judith Bryant (2001 – 2002)
Cora Unashamed – Cora Jenkins (2000)
Strange Justice – Anita Hill (1999)
The Negotiator – Karen Roman (1998)
Spirit Lost – Willy (1997)
Hostile Waters – Lieutenant Curtis (1997)
The Third Twin – Sergeant Michelle Delaware (1997)
A Family Thing – Ann (1996)
Courage Under Fire – Meredith Serling (1996)
Children of the Dust – Drusilla (1995)
Losing Isaiah – Gussie (1995)
Clockers – Iris Jeeter (1995)
The Keeper – Angela Lamont (1995)
Law & Order – Sarah Maslin (1994)
I’ll Fly Away: Then and Now – Lilly Harper (1993)
Jersey Girl – Rosie (1992)
Law & Order – Evelyn Griggs (1991)
I’ll Fly Away – Lilly Harper (1991- 1993)
Lean on Me – Mrs. Carter (1989)
American Playhouse – Burnetta (1984)
Crisis at Central High – Minniejean Brown (1981)
Nurse – Unknown (1980)

Frequently Asked Questions About Regina Taylor

Who is Regina Taylor?

Taylor is an American actress and playright.

How old is Regina?

taylor is 59 years old as of 2019.

How tall is Regina?

Taylor stands at a height of 5 Feet 8 Inches.

Is Regina married?

It is not known whether Regina is married or not. This information will be provided once it is available.

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