Actress/director/playwright & Golden Globe winner Regina Taylor is best known to

television audiences for her role as Lily Harper in "I'll Fly Away.” She received a Golden

Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series, 3 NAACP Image

Awards and two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama

Series for her role. Her recent guest starring credits include “The Blacklist,”

“Elementary,” and the upcoming CBS drama “Red Line” while other television roles

include “Dig,” “The Unit,” “The Education of Max Bickford," "Feds,” “Strange Justice,”

Masterpiece Theatre’s "Cora Unashamed," "Children of the Dust," "I'll Fly Away: Then

and Now" and "Howard Beach: Making a Case for Murder.”

She most recently recurred in the HBO critically acclaimed series “Lovecraft Country”

and starred in the Netflix feature All Day & A Night opposite Jeffrey Wright and Ashton

Sanders.

In addition to her film and television work, she holds the honor as being the first Black

woman to play William Shakespeare's Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" on Broadway.

Taylor’s critically acclaimed "Crowns" continues to be one of the most performed

musicals in the country and is the winner of four Washington D.C. Helen Hayes awards

including Taylor’s win for Best Direction and Best Regional Musical

Taylor has received honorary doctorates from Columbia College, DePaul University and

Lake Forest College.

Regina can currently be seen on BET Plus in A Jenkins Family Christmas.