Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Has her B.A. in African-American studies from Brown University, and studied acting in the graduate drama program at NYU.

Every role is a potential lover. I ask: Are they someone I want to wake up to in the morning and go to bed with at night? Do they question my assumptions about life? Consume me to distraction? Make my cry, then clown to make me laugh again? If I say yes, then it's all I need.