Biography
Regina Taylor is an American actress and playwright. She has won several awards throughout her career, including a Golden Globe Award and NAACP Image Award. In July 2017, Taylor was announced as the new Denzel Washington Endowed Chair in Theater at Fordham University. She is best known for her recurring roles as Lilly Harper on I'll Fly Away (1991) and as Molly Blaine on The Unit (2006).
Known For
Complete Filmography

E. Jean Carroll V. Donald J. Trump
2024
as Attorney Roberta Kaplan
E. Jean Carroll V. Donald Trump is a powerful documentary that brings to life the brave testimony of writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused former Presid...

Dreams in Nightmares
2024
as Bernice
After an abrupt layoff, Z embarks on a trip across the Midwestern United States in search of a friend who has seemingly disappeared off the grid. Trav...

A Jenkins Family Christmas
2021
as Baneatta
After burying their father earlier during the year, two sisters have to make Christmas happen without falling in an argument. An unexpected twist will...

All Day and a Night
2020
as Tommetta
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

Saturday Church
2018
as Aunt Rose
Ulysses is a shy and effeminate boy who finds himself coping with new responsibilities as man of the house after the death of his father. Living along...

Who Is Clark Rockefeller?
2010
as Megan Norton
Called "the longest running con in FBI history," Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man that people knew as "Clark Rockefeller" had brilliantly impers...

In from the Night
2006
as Dr. A. Gardner
Vicki Miller is a writer who has cut herself off from her dysfunctional family. Her life drastically changes when one night, her 16-year-old nephew Bo...

Cora Unashamed
2000
as Cora Jenkins
From the short story by Langston Hughes.

Strange Justice
1999
as Anita Hill
In this historical drama, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall announces his retirement. The White House nominates Clarence Thomas as Marshall...

The Negotiator
1998
as Karen Roman
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elabo...

Hostile Waters
1997
as Lt. Curtis
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total...

Spirit Lost
1997
as Willie
John Chapman and his beautiful wife Willie have just moved into a seaside village on the North Carolina coast. But they quickly discover that their qu...

Courage Under Fire
1996
as Meredith Serling
A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a desk job. He is tasked to investigate a female cho...

A Family Thing
1996
as Ann
Earl Pilcher Jr. runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother...

Clockers
1995
as Iris Jeeter
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bu...

The Keeper
1995
as Angela Lamont
Paul Lamont, a corrections officer and law student, leads a comfortable if culturally bankrupt, middle-class existence. Lamont's marriage is already i...

Losing Isaiah
1995
as Gussie
Khaila Richards, a crack-addicted single mother, accidentally leaves her baby in a dumpster while high and returns the next day in a panic to find he ...
I'll Fly Away: Then and Now
1993
as Lilly Harper
Lilly Taylor returns to her hometown for the first time in thirty years, where she remembers the dramatic events that led to her leaving, and learns w...

Jersey Girl
1992
as Rosie
A working girl from New Jersey looks for love with a fast-lane Manhattan salesman from Queens.

Lean On Me
1989
as Mrs. Carter
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined...

Crisis at Central High
1981
as Minniejean Brown
The historic federal-state controversy over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as seen through the eyes of Elizabeth Huc...