Regina Taylor (born August 22, 1960) is a Golden Globe Award and NAACP Image Award winning American actress and playwright.
Taylor was born in Dallas, Texas, but starting at age 12 she went to a newly-integrated school in Muskogee, Oklahoma where she was subjected to an incident of racism by another student. The family later returned to Dallas, where she graduated from L. G. Pinkston High School in 1977.
Her earliest professional acting roles wer...
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Regina Taylor (born August 22, 1960) is a Golden Globe Award and NAACP Image Award winning American actress and playwright.
Taylor was born in Dallas, Texas, but starting at age 12 she went to a newly-integrated school in Muskogee, Oklahoma where she was subjected to an incident of racism by another student. The family later returned to Dallas, where she graduated from L. G. Pinkston High School in 1977.
Her earliest professional acting roles were two made-for-television films while she was studying at Southern Methodist University: 1980's Nurses and 1981's Crisis at Central High. In the latter movie, she was praised by critic John O'Connor of The New York Times for her portrayal of Minnijean Brown, a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who braved violence and armed guards to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Her first role to gain widespread attention was that of Mrs. Carter, the drug-addicted mother of a promising young female...
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