Aunjanue L. Ellis-Taylor is an actress from America. She’s been in lots of movies and TV shows. She’s won awards and been nominated for even more, like an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
In movies, she’s been in films like “Men of Honor,” “Ray,” “The Help,” and “The Color Purple.” She was also in a TV series called “The Mentalist.”
When she was young, she grew up on her grandma’s farm in Mississippi. She went to college at Tougaloo College and then Brown University.
In the 1990s, she started acting professionally. She was in a play on Broadway and then started acting in TV shows and movies.
In the 2000s, she acted in a bunch of movies and TV shows. She was in films like “Undercover Brother” and “The Taking of Pelham 123.”
In the 2010s, she was in movies like “The Help” and “The Birth of a Nation.” She also acted in a TV series called “Quantico.”
In the 2020s, she was in a TV movie called “The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel” and a series called “Lovecraft Country.” She also got nominated for an Academy Award for her role in “King Richard.”
She has a lot of projects lined up for the future, including more movies and TV shows.
Outside of acting, she’s openly bisexual. In 2023, she started using the name Ellis-Taylor to honor her mom.