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Teyana Taylor’s Awards-Season Ascent Continues With TIME Women of the Year Honor

Her latest interviews spotlight a deliberate reinvention that now extends to directing.

Overview

  • Taylor is a Golden Globe winner and first-time Oscar nominee for Best Supporting Actress for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another.
  • In new interviews, she defends her character Perfidia as misunderstood, urging viewers to consider factors like postpartum depression.
  • She recounts recording an emotional voiceover in a single take on the production’s final day as the team mourned producer and first assistant director Adam Somner.
  • After stepping away from music in 2020, she returned with the 2025 album Escape Room, which earned a Grammy nomination for best R&B album.
  • She is preparing her feature directorial debut, Get Lite, targeted for 2027, while continuing creative studies through culinary school.