She choreographed Beyoncé's "Ring the Alarm" music video at age 15 and won a Golden Globe Award for her supporting role in One Battle After Another (2025).

Teyana Taylor (born December 10, 1990, in Harlem, New York) is a multidisciplinary artist known for her work as a singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, choreographer, and music video director. The Sagittarius-born star won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for One Battle After Another (2025) and earned an Academy Award nomination for the same role, adding to her collection of two Critics Choice Awards and an NAACP Image Award. She gained early recognition choreographing Beyoncé's "Ring the Alarm" at age 15 and later collaborated with Kanye West on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010), before releasing four studio albums including Escape Room (2025), which received a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Album.

Teyana Taylor was born to Nikki Taylor and Tito Smith in Harlem, New York, and is of African American and Trinidadian descent. Her mother Nikki raised her as an only child (her father Tito Smith has two sons and another daughter from a different relationship) and later became her manager. At age 15 in September 2006, Taylor choreographed Beyoncé's "Ring the Alarm" music video and signed with Pharrell Williams' Star Trak Entertainment in January 2007, launching her journey from Harlem dancer to multi-platform entertainer.

Teyana Taylor married NBA player Iman Shumpert on October 1, 2016, approximately two weeks after revealing their relationship on The Wendy Williams Show on September 20, 2016. In 2015, Shumpert delivered their first child himself when Taylor went into premature labor, and in June 2020, Taylor confirmed her second pregnancy in the music video for "Wake Up Love." Her mother Nikki Taylor serves as her manager and played a central role in her upbringing, while her father Tito Smith has three other children from a different relationship.