Teyana Me Shay Jacqueline Taylor (/tiˈɑːnə/; born December 10, 1990) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, choreographer, and music video director. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award, two Critics' Choice Awards, and an NAACP Image Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award, two Actor Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and a Grammy Award. She was named one of Time's 2026 Women of the Year. At age 15, she choreographed the video for "Ring the Alarm" by Beyoncé and signed a recording contract with the Neptunes' Star Trak Entertainment. During this period, Taylor appeared as a dancer in the video for Jay-Z's "Blue Magic" and released her debut single, "Google Me." She earned wider recognition for work on Kanye West's "Dark Fantasy" and "Hell of a Life" from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010). In 2012, she signed with West's GOOD Music and appeared on the label's compilation album, Cruel Summer, which peaked at number two on the Billboard 200. Her debut studio album, VII (2014), topped the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Taylor starred in and co-choreographed "Fade" by Kanye West, earning the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography. She then released K.T.S.E. (2018), followed by The Album (2020), which entered the top ten on the Billboard 200 and featured collaborations with Missy Elliott and Lauryn Hill. Her fourth album, Escape Room(2025), received a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Album. As an actress, Taylor appeared in films such as Stomp the Yard: Homecoming (2010) and Madea's Big Happy Family (2011) before taking on starring roles in Coming 2 America (2021) and The Rip (2026). She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Inez in A Thousand and One (2023), earning the National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance. For her performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another (2025), she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and received an Academy Award nomination. On television, she starred in the Ryan Murphy legal drama All's Fair (2025–present) and won an NAACP Image Award for her performance in the 2025 Netflix television film Straw. Her other ventures include collaborations with Adidas and Air Jordan on limited-edition releases. Taylor has directed music videos for herself and other artists, and her feature directorial debut, Get Lite, starring actress Storm Reid, for Paramount Pictures. Description above from the Wikipedia article Teyana Taylor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- December 10, 1990 (35)
- Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
- Actor, also producer
- 22 on MovieCove · 34 credits in all
What are Teyana Taylor's films like?
Across their 18 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Self.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 14
A split, not a type: Light 9 · Serious 2 · Dark 4
Grounded 10 · Stylized 4 · Heightened 1
Gentle 4 · Charged 6 · Intense 5
A split, not a type: Steady 8 · Shifting 5 · Whiplash 2
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 4 · Funny 6
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 11 · Relentless 2
Casual 10 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 1
A split, not a type: Easy watch 8 · Affecting 3 · Heavy 4
Resolved 9 · Open-ended 5 · Ambiguous 1
Roles they play
Usually the Hero: 2 of 5 analyzed roles.
- Threshold guardianas Steph in The Love Section (2013)
- Heroas Skyler in Honey: Rise Up and Dance (2018)
- Allyas Tammy in Miracles Across 125th Street (2021)
- Heroas Inez de la Paz in A Thousand and One (2023)
- Heraldas Imani in White Men Can't Jump (2023)
Moods and endings
- Happy6
- Bittersweet7
- Ambiguous5
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Teyana Taylor's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 19 of their 22 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (7).
Subscription and free streaming for Teyana Taylor's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
34 credits, 22 with a MovieCove page; 32 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
Get Lite (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2027)
72 Hours(2026)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
Scary Movie(2026)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films
The Rip(2026)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
All's Fair(2025)
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all shows
One Battle After Another(2025)
Midcredits score: 93rd percentile of all films
Escape Room (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Straw(2025)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
The Book of Clarence(2023)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films
White Men Can't Jump(2023)
Midcredits score: 25th percentile of all films
A Thousand and One(2023)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
Entergalactic (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 52nd percentile of all shows (provisional, few ratings)
Coming 2 America(2021)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all films
Hottieween (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
The Trap(2019)
Midcredits score: 7th percentile of all films
The Masked Singer(2019)
Midcredits score: 21st percentile of all shows
The After Party(2018)
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films
Honey: Rise Up and Dance(2018)
Midcredits score: 32nd percentile of all films
Teyana & Iman (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Star(2016)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all shows
VH1 Hip Hop Honors: All Hail the Queens (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Brotherly Love(2015)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Hit the Floor(2013)
Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all shows
The Love Section(2013)
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films
Cruel Summer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Gang of Roses 2: Next Generation (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Madea's Big Happy Family(2011)
Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films
VH1 Divas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1998)
Slime (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Parlay (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Untitled Dionne Warwick Biopic (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 98th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 33 titles, 29 of them dated from 1998 to 2026; peak year 2024.
Film career
Peak 2024 · at the high point of their film career. Top draw in 5 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 2010Screen debut· Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming
- 2018First top-billed film· Honey: Rise Up and Dance
- 2023Career best· A Thousand and One
Billing
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.
Awards
a Golden Globe from 8 major nominations, 2024–2026.
- Oscar, nominated · Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
- Golden Globe, won · Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture
- BAFTA Award, nominated · Best Supporting Actress
- Screen Actors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
- Screen Actors Guild Award, nominated · Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
+2 other major bodies · 2 nominations
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best R&B Album
- Critics Choice Award, nominated · Best Supporting Actress
- Independent Spirit Award, nominated · Best Lead Performance
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Teyana Taylor's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 38th percentile, the median of all 17; across their 15 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 36th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up2
- 50th to 74th6
- 25th to 49th7
- Below 25th7
Shape of the crowd
11 of their 22 titles are Mixed.
- Divisive5
- Cult Classic2
- Crowd Pleaser4
- Mixed11
Reviewers score the acting 60/100 in their films, across 14 reviewed titles; fans 72, detractors 40. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Teyana Taylor's work okay for kids?
Across up to 11 MovieCove titles with content scores, sex & nudity, profanity and alcohol & drugs run heavier than most films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Teyana Taylor work with?
People who share at least 2 of Teyana Taylor's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Tyler Perry shares the most, 2.
Directors
- Tyler PerryShared titles: Straw (2025), Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Tyler Perry
Writers
- Kenya BarrisShared titles: White Men Can't Jump (2023), Coming 2 America (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Kenya Barris
Actors
- Loretta DevineShared titles: The Trap (2019), Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Loretta Devine
Composers
- Chris PaultreShared titles: The Trap (2019), Brotherly Love (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Chris Paultre
Producers
- Joseph Patrick GenierShared titles: Miracles Across 125th Street (2021), Madea's Big Happy Family (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Joseph Patrick Genier
- Mike ElliottShared titles: Miracles Across 125th Street (2021), Honey: Rise Up and Dance (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Mike Elliott
- Queen LatifahShared titles: The Trap (2019), Brotherly Love (2015)See all 2 shared titles with Queen Latifah
