--- title: Teyana Taylor: TIME100 Next 2025 description: Find out how Teyana Taylor is shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership. canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318882/teyana-taylor/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-09-30T11:00:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-03T00:55:21.074Z article:section: World og:title: Teyana Taylor Is on the 2025 TIME100 Next og:description: Find out why Teyana Taylor is on this year’s list og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318882/teyana-taylor/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc19f94fd938b8d97/6998c9fb9fbc7c1b98d9a6ff/t100-next-2025-teyana-Taylor.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Teyana Taylor Is on the 2025 TIME100 Next og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Teyana Taylor Is on the 2025 TIME100 Next twitter:description: Find out why Teyana Taylor is on this year’s list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc19f94fd938b8d97/6998c9fb9fbc7c1b98d9a6ff/t100-next-2025-teyana-Taylor.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 30, 2025 # Teyana Taylor by Regina King  ERIK CARTER—The New York Times/Redux I first met Teyana Taylor years ago, when my son and his friends were putting together a pilot and she was one of the artists they interviewed. Even then, she struck me as singular ... vibrant, confident, and unapologetically herself. That hasn’t changed. Teyana moves through the world as an artist in every sense. Whether she’s dancing, directing, singing, creating, or simply speaking, there is a depth and honesty that radiates from her. Her work reaches people because it is rooted in truth. You feel it, you recognize yourself in it, and you want to move with her. When Teyana takes the stage, she doesn’t just perform. She ignites! _King is a director, producer, and Oscar- and Emmy-­winning actor_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318882/teyana-taylor/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318882/teyana-taylor/"},"headline":"Teyana Taylor","datePublished":"2025-09-30T11:00:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:55:21.074Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318882/teyana-taylor/","keywords":["TIME100 Next","sponsorshipblock"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc19f94fd938b8d97/6998c9fb9fbc7c1b98d9a6ff/t100-next-2025-teyana-Taylor.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc19f94fd938b8d97/6998c9fb9fbc7c1b98d9a6ff/t100-next-2025-teyana-Taylor.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time100-next/","name":"TIME100 Next"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318882/teyana-taylor/","name":"Teyana Taylor"}}]}] ```