Taylour Paige
Birthdate: Oct 5, 1990
Birthplace: Santa Monica, California, USA
As a trained dancer, Taylour Paige (birthname: Taylour Dominique Paige) first appeared in the movies in the background, but she hasn’t stayed there. Her lead performance in Stella Meghie’s writing-directing debut, Jean of the Joneses (2016), with Gloria Reuben, announced a striking actor who could command the screen.
This was more than confirmed four years later when Paige starred as a somewhat unlucky sex worker in Janicza Bravo’s stylish crime comedy, Zola (premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020, theatrically released in 2021), with Riley Keough, Nicholas Braun, and Colman Domingo, earning her the Independent Spirit Award for the best female lead.
In between, Paige appeared in the true-crime drama, White Boy Rick (2018), with Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Brian Tyree Henry. Although Paige filmed Zola before her role as Dussie Mae in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Ma Rainey arrived first (on Netflix and limited theatrically), in Paige’s first-period film led by distinguished stage director George C. Wolfe and the stellar cast of Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, and Domingo.
Taylour Paige’s film activity has greatly accelerated since 2020, with a co-starring role opposite Taylor Takahashi in writer-director Eddie Huang’s debut coming-of-age feature, Boogie (2021), followed by her involvement as co-star and executive producer of Lena Dunham’s Sharp Stick (2022), with Dunham, Jon Bernthal, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Paige appeared with Diane Keaton and Elizabeth Lail in the Palm Springs-set comedy, Mack and Rita (2022). In a change of pace, Paige co-starred with Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, and Jacob Tremblay in the big-budget version of the original 1984 Troma movie, The Toxic Avenger (date to be announced), written and directed by Macon Blair and produced by Legendary Pictures, with co-producer Guillermo del Toro. In another Legendary production starring Dinklage, Paige is in the comedy (co-written by Toxic director-writer Blair) Brothers (date to be announced), with Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, and Brendan Fraser.
Paige joined the notable ensemble of The Trainer (2023), director Tony Kaye’s first feature in over a decade, starring Steven Dorff, Gina Gershon, Bella Thorne, Julia Fox, Beverly D’Angelo, Steven Van Zandt, director Gus Van Sant, tennis star John McEnroe, surf legend Laird Hamilton, and the inimitable Paris Hilton. Taylour Paige’s resume continued to grow with a co-starring role in writer-director Elijah Bynum’s bodybuilding drama, Magazine Dreams (date to be announced), with Jonathan Majors and Haley Bennett.
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Personal Details
Taylour Dominique Paige was born in Santa Monica and raised in Inglewood, California by parents Reginald Paige and Cheryl Boutte. Taylour Paige trained in dance at the Los Angeles-based dance academies Westside Ballet Academy and Katnap, and in summer dance training at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C. She attended and graduated from St. Bernard Catholic High School in Playa del Rey, California, and graduated from Loyola Marymount University. Paige was in a relationship with actor Jesse Williams from 2019 to 2021. Paige’s height is 5’ 5”.
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- 2023 | Magazine DreamsasPink Coat
Magazine Dreams
A Black amateur bodybuilder struggles to find human connection in this exploration of celebrity and violence.
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- 2022 | Mack & RitaasCarla
Mack & Rita
A 30-year-old writer spends a wild weekend in Palm Springs and wakes up to find she has magically transformed into her 70-year-old self.
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- 2018 | White Boy RickasCathy Volsan-Curry
White Boy Rick
The story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
Some Facts About Taylour Paige
Music Collaborator: Taylour Paige has performed as a dancer on Usher’s music video with Nicki Minaj, “She Came to Give It to You,” and rapped with Kendrick Lamar on the track, “We Cry Together,” off Lamar’s hit 2022 album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.
Mentor: Paige’s significant dance mentor was choreographer Debbie Allen, with whom she trained and studied, and performed in Allen-choreographed musicals from 2001 to 2009.
Laker Girl: Taylour Paige was a member of the world-famous Laker Girls cheerleading squad for three months, before returning to complete her studies at Loyola Marymount University. But her brief time with the squad still earned her an appearance in the TV documentary, Making of the Laker Girls Calendar 2011.
