Mya Taylor

Mya Taylor

Born: March 28, 1991
in Houston, Texas, USA
Mya Taylor (born March 28, 1991) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Alexandra in the 2015 film Tangerine for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female.

Mya Taylor was born on March 28, 1991, in Houston, Texas. She was raised by her Christian grandparents, who at first did not know that she had come out as gay (pre-transition) in school. In 2009, she came out to them, which led to a lot of tension in the home. Taylor left and moved to California in May 2009 to live with another relative, but her gender identity led that relative to kick her out on the street.

Unable to secure legal employment at the age of 18, she worked as a sex worker in Hollywood. She began going to therapy, and it was in her talks with her therapist that she decided that she was going to be true to herself. In January 2013, she came out as transgender. She has since reconnected with her mother, who coined her name, Mya. She lived in an apartment with her eventual Tangerine co-star Kitana Kiki Rodriguez. It was at the age of 23, after five years of sex work and after four arrests for prostitution, Mya was approached by director Sean Baker and his co-screenwriter Chris Bergoch as she stood in the yard of Los Angeles' LGBT Center to star in their film Tangerine.

Movies for Mya Taylor...

High Tide
Title: High Tide
Character: Crystal
Released: March 8, 2024
Type: Movie
Lourenço decides to leave his homophobic family and country behind to get lost in the queer mecca of Provincetown, until the intense and unexpected romance with Maurice, who also feels lost in today's America, changes his life forever.
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Merry F*cking Christmas: the making of Tangerine
Title: Merry F*cking Christmas: the making of Tangerine
Character: Herself
Released: December 19, 2022
Type: Movie
A feature length documentary going behind-the-scenes on the making of the 2015 film Tangerine.
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Stage Mother
Title: Stage Mother
Character: Cherry
Released: July 24, 2020
Type: Movie
A conservative church-choir director moves from Texas to San Francisco to run her deceased gay son's drag club.
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Disclosure
Title: Disclosure
Character: Alexandra (archive footage)
Released: June 19, 2020
Type: Movie
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
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Myra
Title: Myra
Character: Joy
Released: January 19, 2019
Type: Movie
A trans sex worker in the Spanish barrio finds herself in an unwanted love triangle with a notorious gang leader while two drug organizations battle for supremacy suddenly finds herself tangled in a world of chaos and deceit.
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Title: Dietland
Character: Barbara
Released: June 4, 2018
Type: TV
Plum Kettle, ghost-writer for the editor of one of New York’s hottest fashion magazines, struggles with self-image and sets out on a wildly complicated road to self-acceptance. At the same time, everyone is buzzing over news reports about men, accused of sexual abuse and assault, who are disappearing and meeting untimely, violent deaths.
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Happy Birthday, Marsha!
Title: Happy Birthday, Marsha!
Character: Marsha P. Johnson
Released: March 10, 2018
Type: Movie
It's a hot summer day in June, 1969. Marsha throws herself a birthday party and dreams of performing at a club in town, but no one shows up. Sylvia, Marsha’s best friend, distraught from an unsuccessful introduction between her lover and her family, gets so stoned she forgets about the party. Marsha, Sylvia, and friends eventually meet at the Stonewall Inn to celebrate Marsha's birth. When the police arrive to raid the bar, Marsha and Sylvia are among the first to fight back.
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Viva Diva
Title: Viva Diva
Character: Diva
Released: June 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Viva Diva is a road trip movie, centering on Rozene and Diva, as they make their way down to Guadalajara for gender reassignment surgery. Rozene stops in on her father to try to get answers about their fractured relationship, but drama stands in the way of her getting the closure that she seeks.
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Diane from the Moon
Title: Diane from the Moon
Character: Diane
Released: October 16, 2016
Type: Movie
Shortly after a hurtful breakup, Diane, a transgender pagan priestess, finds refuge in Palm Springs. She is engaged in a battle with her inner demons when an enigmatic sociopath, starts to stalk her.
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Take Flight
Title: Take Flight
Character: Self - Performer
Released: December 10, 2015
Type: Movie
2015's best actors lift off in a series of tributes to the ultimate Hollywood magic trick.
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Tangerine
Title: Tangerine
Character: Alexandra
Released: July 10, 2015
Type: Movie
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.
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Raven and Her Sister
Title: Raven and Her Sister
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A young transgender woman, deeply troubled and in denial, returns home to impose upon her 'sister' who is actually her mother, at a very unfortunate time in their lives.