Teyana Taylor’s remarkable rise from reality TV as she’s tipped for Oscar glory despite just 20 minutes of screen time in One Battle After Another

It has been proven that having only 20 minutes of screen time in a movie can not just get you nominated for an award, but receive one.

Teyana Taylor reminded everyone to not give up on hope of hitting big time as she scooped an award at the Golden Globes on Sunday night.

The actress won Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her performance as Perfidia Beverly Hills in One Battle After Another. 

Having risen to fame on reality TV, the actress has had a remarkable rise in the last few months – and is now tipped to receive an Oscar nomination this season. 

The surprise award came just months after she starred in Ryan Murphy All’s Fair alongside Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash, Sarah Paulson and Glenn Close.

The chances of her winning anything following the Disney+ legal drama seemed slim after it was savaged by critics.

The show earned a rarely seen 0% ‘rotten’ rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes.

Yet months later, Teyana got the last laugh as she collected her Golden Globes gong in front of Hollywood’s finest.

Taylor claimed she ‘almost didn’t’ write a speech, thinking she wasn’t going to emerge victorious, later thanking filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson for the material she parlayed into the major honor. 

She said in her acceptance speech: ‘To Paul ‘Let ‘Em Cook’ Thomas Anderson, thank you for your vision, your trust and your brilliance,’ she said. ‘My gratitude is endless.

‘I love you, we love you and thank you so much for holding space for me and our entire cast.’

Taylor also mentioned her two daughters – Iman ‘Junie’ Tayla Shumpert Jr., 10, and Rue Rose Shumpert, five – saying they were ‘upstairs watching’ the award show.

She is married to long-time husband Iman Shumpert, whom she wed in 2016. 

‘Y’all better be off those damn phones and watching me right now,’ she joked, calling her family her ‘grounding force.’

Taylor also had in a message for her ‘Brown sisters and little Brown girls watching tonight’ to wrap up her acceptance speech.

‘Our softness is not a liability,’ Taylor said. ‘Our depth is not too much. Our light does not need permission to shine.

‘We belong in every room we walk into. Our voices matter and our dreams deserve space.’

Taylor was just 16 when she appeared on MTV’s My Super Sweet 16 in 2007.

Raised in Harlem, New York, Teyana was encouraged by her mother and now manager Nikki Taylor to begin a career in music, dance and fashion.

Before her acting career kicked off, Teyana began a music career at just 15-years-old and choreographed the video for Ring The Alarm by Beyoncé.

She later signed with Star Trak Entertainment, an imprint of Interscope Records founded by Pharrell Williams.

After signing with the record company, Teyana appeared in videos for stars including Jay-Z and Kanye West. 

In 2020, she announced a career hiatus before she returned five years later and released her fourth studio album which earned a Grammy nomination for Best R&B Album. 

Teyana revealed her friendship status with Kanye in rare remarks after the rapper’s public controversies in recent years.

The star opened up about the topic during an interview with Vanity Fair published on Tuesday. 

Taylor has previously worked with West and appeared in his 2016 music video for the track Fade. She was also signed to his record label G.O.O.D Music until she left in 2020 after feeling ‘underappreciated.’ 

‘I don’t have to agree with everything that he do or say, but I’m not going to, like, abandon him and be like, “Yeah, eff that motherf*****,”‘ the singer told the outlet. 

The Heartless rapper garnered backlash after he made a series of antisemitic comments and political rants on social media. 

However, he has since renounced his past statements and said on X last year: ‘I am done with antisemitism. I love all people.’ 

Taylor further expressed to Vanity Fair, ‘My brothers do s*** that I don’t agree with… I don’t get into none of that.’ 

She went on to explain that she keeps it ‘real’ when it comes to her conversations with West – who also goes by Ye. 

‘If you want a real answer, you ask me. So if he asks me something, he knows he’s gonna get a real answer.’ 

However, the star emphasized that she keeps her focus on her own life and said, ‘I do my s*** behind the scenes and do what I need to do to help. I’m in my business and I drink my water.’

Taylor signed to the rapper’s G.O.O.D. record label back in 2012 and the pair worked on a number of collaborations such as the music video for We Got Love. 

The dancer had the chance to work on her own music and released three albums under West’s label including VII (2014), K.T.S.E (2018) and The Album (2020). 

On the acting front, her role as Inez in A Thousand And One and scooping a National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance ultimately led to her career-defining role in One Battle After Another.

Her other movie roles include Coming 2 America, the Fox series Star and upcoming movie The Rip, produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Taylor’s character in One Battle After Another, Perfidia Beverly Hills, is mother to a child with Leonardo DiCaprio’s Bob character. 

The ensemble cast of the latest from Anderson also features Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall and Wood Harris.