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Christian Taylor was born Christian Clark Johnson in Biloxi, Mississippi to Jim and Vicki Johnson. The first of four girls, Christian grew up in Laurel, Mississippi through the age of 13. She attended the Stony Brook School in Stony Brook, NY for high school where she fell in love with acting. Christian received her BA in Drama from The Catholic University in Washington, DC in 1988 and immediately joined the nation's longest running national touring company, The National Players, as Muriel the Goat in George Orwell's Animal Farm and Hero in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
Christian Taylor's 40-year entertainment industry career spans stage, screen, and sound booth, as she has been talent, producer, director, casting director, and coach. Christian began her career in the entertainment industry interviewing senators on Capitol Hill with the TV/Radio department of the Senate. The Girl Who Wore Freedom is her directorial debut.
Christian is married to Jeremy Taylor and they have four sons.- Producer
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Christian Taylor is an English-Argentine-American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work on the American television dramas Lost, Six Feet Under, Teen Wolf, Resident Alien, and Eye Candy. Christian is a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community and actively works to encourage representation across Film and TV storytelling.
Taylor was born in London to an Argentine father and British mother. Soon after his birth, the family moved to Mexico City for three years. On their return to London, they lived in the diverse community of Notting Hill. As a teenager, he went to Bedales School in Hampshire where both Daniel Day-Lewis and Minnie Driver attended. He did his art foundation course at the Central School of Art and Design and then moved to the United States after being accepted by New York University.
As a student at New York University, Taylor wrote and directed his thesis film, "The Lady in Waiting," which won the Gold Medal for Best Dramatic Film at the Student Academy Awards and went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Film.
Taylor was creatively integral to the development and shooting of the pilot of the HBO drama Six Feet Under in 2001, and went on to be a writer and a producer, receiving an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Drama Series in 2002. Taylor's script for the season 2 episode, "In Place of Anger," was also nominated for a Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award in 2003.
He co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in the 2002 independent Mockumentary film, Showboy, which won the Douglas Hickox Award for best directorial debut at the British Independent Film Awards and was named Best Picture at the Milan International Film Festival.
In 2003, Taylor became a writer and producer on ABC's dramatic series Miracles, before beginning work on the first season of the network's breakout hit, Lost.
As there was no Pilot shot, Taylor was one of only four writers brought on to brainstorm and establish what the show would eventually become. As a writer and supervising producer on Lost, Taylor won the 2006 Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series.[1]
In 2008, he co-created Fox's sci-fi crime drama New Amsterdam.
He went on to become the head writer on Lucasfilm's animated series, Star Wars: The Clone Wars writing episodes for the show's third, fourth, and fifth seasons and received a 2015 Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program.
Taylor's relationship with MTV began with the 2009 release of the horror miniseries, Valemont, which he wrote and co-directed.
He returned to MTV as a writer, director, and co-executive producer on Teen Wolf during the show's second, third, and fourth seasons directing the fan-favorite episode called Motel California.
In 2014, Taylor developed and was showrunner and Executive producer of the MTV drama-thriller series Eye Candy, starring Victoria Justice. Production began in New York City in September 2014, with Jax Media and the ten-episode first season was released in January 2015. The hugely popular show was canceled after MTV decided to stop producing or programming live-action TV.
He went on to become CO-EP and writer on the Marvel series Luke Cage, which was released in 2018.
He was asked to return to Lucasfilm and wrote two episodes of The Bad Batch for season one of their animation series.
He has been working on the critically acclaimed and hugely popular Resident Alien for SYFY and Amblin TV. Resident Alien received the honor of Best Cable Series, Comedy from the Hollywood Critics Association for season one. The first part of season 2 premiered in January 2022 and the second part will be broadcast in late summer 2022.
Taylor is developing several pilots and recently completed a WW2 resistance film called The Degenerate which he will direct.- Producer
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Christian Taylor is an independent producer and founder of Taylor Lane Productions.
Taylor Lane develops, packages, and arranges financing for feature films and television with a focus on filmmaker-driven, commercially minded stories for global audiences.
Christian has spent over a decade in the entertainment industry, working in talent and literary management at Industry Entertainment and Lighthouse Entertainment and in development at Imagine Entertainment.
Recent credits include the supernatural thriller Dreamkatcher (2020 - Lionsgate) written by Dan V. Shea, directed by Kerry Harris and starring Radha Mitchell, Henry Thomas and Lin Shaye, Measure Of A Man (2018 - Lionsgate) written by David Scearce (A Single Man), directed by Jim Loach and starring Donald Sutherland, Judy Greer, Luke Wilson, Blake Cooper and Liana Liberato and Hick (2012 - Phase 4 Films) written by Andrea Portes, directed by Derick Martini and starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne, Blake Lively, Alec Baldwin and Juliette Lewis.
Taylor's films have screened at premiere film festivals around the world, including the Toronto International Film Festival, the Rome Film Festival Alice nella Citta, Zlín Film Festival (2019 Best Youth Performance Award for Blake Cooper) and the International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino in Poland.- Editor
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Christian Chadd Taylor is known for Pottersville (2017) and Ouros (2018).- Christian Taylor is known for Black Butler (2008), Cautious Hero: The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious (2019) and Astra Lost in Space (2019).
- Christian Aryan Taylor is known for Sutton's Case (2020).
- Christian Taylor Dobsin is known for Mono No Aware.
- Christian Taylor is known for Black Butler: Public School Arc (2024).
- Production Designer
- Art Department
- Actor
- Christian Taylor is known for Promised (2019), Cactus & Mime (2021) and Champion: The Franz Stampfl Story.
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Editor
Christian Taylor Phillips is known for Untitled Stone Wolf Ent. Project (2016) and Bitten (2016).- Christian Taylor is known for 19H80's (2012).
- Sound Department
Christian Taylor is known for Be There in Ten (2010).- Christian Taylor is known for One Piece (1999), Kabukichou Sherlock (2019) and Izetta: The Last Witch (2016).
- Editorial Department
Christian Taylor is known for Overhaulin' (2004).- Christian Taylor is known for Moonlight (2006).
- Christian Taylor is known for Waiting on the World... (2022).
- Christian Taylor is known for American Soul (2019).
- Additional Crew
Christian Taylor is known for Rewind (2019).- Additional Crew
Taylor Christian is known for 2016 MTV Movie Awards (2016).- Additional Crew
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- Camera and Electrical Department