Regina Taylor
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Regina Taylor is an actress and playwright born in Dallas, Texas on August 22, 1960 and raised in Oklahoma. Her first role to gain attention might be as Mrs. Carter in the 1989 film Lean on Me. She is likely best known for a television role that started two years later, Lily Harper on I'll Fly Away. This role won her a and also an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series. Since then she had some critical success for her role in the Spike Lee film Clockers, but has not managed to find a role as successful since the show was cancelled. Although she did have an interesting guest shot on Law & Order playing a noticeably different character opposite to Sam Waterston's character. (Sam Waterston having also been a main character in "I'll Fly Away").
She is currently working on the CBS drama The Unit as 'Molly Blaine,' the tough-minded housewife who holds the women of 'the Unit' together when their men are on covert assignments.
As a playwright she won a best new play award for "Oo-Bla-Dee", a work that involves 1940s female jazz musician. She also did an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull.
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