Taylour Paige is best known for her stand-out performance in the SXSW film JEAN OF THE JONESES and SONY’S WHITE BOY RICK. She is a dancer turned actor who had her breakout role as Ahsha Hayes on the series Hit the Floor in 2013. She danced with the Debbie Allen dance troupe from 2001 to 2009.
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Taylour Paige Dating Life With Grey's Anatomy Star Jesse Williams
Taylour Paige is dating The Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams.
Taylour hinted dating Jesse Williams since the fall of 2018 in an Instagram post. With only slight data on 2018, there was no concrete proof of them being a relationship.
It was the tabloid PEOPLE who confirmed they were indeed in a relationship. A source told them that they were walking hands linked, and Jesse introduced her as his girlfriend while attending the Frieze art show in New York City. Paige also shared some silly selfies that night on Instagram, captioning, “Hoodrats.”
The couple publicly announced their relationship through their red carpet debut at Ozwald Boateng Harlem Runway Show in May 2019.
Jesse Williams celebrated his girlfriend’s 29 birthday in 2019 with a series of snaps and pictures of them on Instagram. He captioned, “HAAAPPPYY BIRRRFFDAYYY @taylour me mine,” along with their memory-packed PDA snaps.
One of the hard things to do is to come up with an equally impacting response to one of the best birthday wishes out there. But the always-loving girlfriend, Taylour, came up with a heartwarming note for Williams, wishing him a happy 40th birthday on the 2020 Instagram post. She wrote: “You leave us all breathless because you are true. Thank you for the most expansive love I have I will ever know. Thank you for never leaving a single thing fruitless.”
Adding on with lovely snaps of them together, she captioned: “You are such a gift to this place. The gentle sensitive pure soul, even still. you. Hardworking you. I’ll always encourage you to revel in you and your gifts.”
Taylour Paige with her boyfriend, Jesse Williams (© Instagram/ Taylour Paige)
Paige is grateful for all the love she is getting and the love she has for Jesse. Williams was amid a bitter divorce battle with his ex-wife Aryn Drake-Lee when he started dating her. They were first linked at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2019.
Jesse and Paige's love story was like a soothing breeze in summer. Williams was in the middle of a conversation with a close friend at September 2018 Emmys party when Paige passed by them. After then, he stopped the conversation and eventually became close to each other that night.
Williams, at 40, is nine years older than Paige. But their age difference isn’t all that separates them.
Taylour Paige Net Worth And Her Career
Taylour Paige has earned a fortune from her professional career as a dancer and actress. Her net worth is not revealed. However, her boyfriend, Jesse Williams, is also a prominent actor, having an estimated net worth of $12 million.
From 2001 to 2009, Taylour Paige regularly featured in all Debbie Allen’s musical. In 2008, she appeared as a featured dancer in ‘High School Musical 3: Senior Year’, directed by Kenny Ortega.
In 2010, she played a schoolgirl in a couple of video shorts – ‘Alex in Wonderland: Interview with Debbie Allen.’ During one of the rehearsals of the video shorts, Allen introduced Paige to TV producer Stan Rogow who played a significant role in launching her career.
In the same year, she became ‘Los Angeles Laker Girl,’ the all-female cheerleading squad of the National Basketball Association. But later, she left to complete the college she was attending at that time.
After finishing college, she secured some acting jobs, though even before that, she did various other works to earn money. In 2013, she became a part of the American sports drama TV series ‘Hit the Floor,’ where she essayed the role of Ahsha Hayes. She appeared in the three seasons of the show (till 2016) and gained a lot of recognition.
Between 2013 and 2016, she appeared in the music video of a song by Usher (ft. Nicki Minaj) ‘She Came to Give It to You’ (2014) and acted in the drama ‘Touched’ (2015).
In 2016, she starred in ‘Jean of the Joneses,’ the Canadian-American film written and directed by Stella Meghie, as the lead role. In 2018, she was seen in the role of Cathy in the American biographical crime drama film ‘White Boy Rick.’ The following year, she worked in few TV series episodes, ‘The Baxters’.
Her last release was ‘Zola,’ which had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020. She played a titular role in it, for which she also learned pole dancing in an actual strip club, ‘Crazy Girls Strip Club,’ for a month.
In 2020, she was featured as the character of ‘Dussie Mae’ in George C. Wolfe’s directed film ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.’ She earned the nominations in Image Award (2021) as ‘Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture’ for her role in the film.
Another of her projects, an American Drama film ‘Boogie’ directed by Eddie Huang, is also in its post-production stage.
Who is Taylour Paige? Parents
Taylour Paige was born on 5 October 1990 in Santa Monica, California. She was born to parents Reginald Paige and Cheryl Boutte and was raised in the Inglewood neighborhood alongside her elder brother Travis.
She attended St. Bernard Catholic High School in Playa del Rey, LA, where she graduated in 2008. Later, she went to Loyola Marymount University.
She had a keen interest and a high passion for dancing. She started dancing when she was just two years old. She started training at the Westside Ballet Academy and spent two summers at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C., in 2001.
When she turned 12, she successfully managed to be a student of the choreographer, director, executive producer, and actress Debbie Allen and worked hard. That year, she was cast in Debbie Allen’s PEARL and went on to do every musical with the Academy from 2001-2009.
Her height is 1.65 m. she weighs around 64 kg.