Meshach Taylor Biography

Fast Facts

• He won the Joseph Jefferson Award for his performance in "Sizwe Banzo Is Dead․"
• In 1993, he graduated from Florida A&M University with a bachelor's degree in theater
• While trying to establish himself as an actor, he worked as a day laborer
• He worked as a State House political correspondent at an Indianapolis radio station
• Although he is known as a film and stage actor, he hosted a gardening show on Home & Garden Television
• He joined the Goodman Theatre and the Organic Theatre Company in Chicago
• As a child, he remembers a ghostly old man appearing at his window and beckoning him outside, and the event later led him to appear on "Celebrity Ghost Stories․"