ATLANTA — Teyana Taylor is an Atlantan with many talents.
At age 15, she was a choreographer for Beyoncé. By age 17, she had a record deal and a minor hit single “Google Me.” She acted in a Tyler Perry film, a VH1 scripted series and Eddie Murphy’s “Coming 2 America.” She helmed her own reality series last year on E! with her husband, former NBA star Iman Shumpert. She won “The Masked Singer” in May 2022 as the Firefly.
But now Taylor is taking a major step forward in terms of prestige by tackling a serious lead role in the grounded and gritty film “A Thousand and One” that recently won a prestigious Sundance Film Festival grand jury prize for best domestic drama. It arrives in movie theaters Friday.
