Personal life

Taylor was born in Toronto to an African Canadian father and a Scottish Canadian mother. She dropped out of high school to try modeling and see the world, with her mother supportive of her decision: "School will always be there, she told me."

Taylor is a second cousin to Neve Campbell with whom she appeared on Party of Five. Taylor married attorney Miles Cooley in 2007 but the couple divorced in May 2012.

Career

She has appeared in the CBS medical drama 3 lbs as Della and the UPN series Sex, Love & Secrets in the role of Nina; both series were short-lived.

Taylor has made guest appearances on NCIS, Numb3rs, Lost, CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, Party of Five and Dawson's Creek. In her feature film debut, Senseless, she played Marlon Wayan's love interest. She portrayed Debrah Simmons in the 2005 romantic-comedy Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Halle Berry's best friend in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and had a brief role in Serenity, the movie conclusion of the TV series Firefly by Joss Whedon. Through her part in Serenity, Taylor was able to audition for a show with actor David Boreanaz, who had previously worked with Whedon in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. She also appeared in the TV series Lost, as the former girlfriend of Michael and mother of Walt.

She first appeared in Bones in the first episode of the second season, "The Titan on the Tracks," portraying the character Dr. Camille Saroyan. In the first six episodes of the season, she was credited as a guest star because creator and writer Hart Hanson had planned to kill her in episode twelve when Howard Epps, a recurring serial killer, poisoned her in order to create more tension and drama between the two main characters. However, the response to Cam was so strong that the writers offered her a position as a recurring regular in the show. Thus, since episode 7, "The Girl with the Curl," she has been credited as a main character of the series and appears in the title sequence.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Senseless	Janice Tyson
1999	Introducing Dorothy Dandridge	Geri Nicholas	Television film
2005	Diary of a Mad Black Woman	Debrah Simmons
2005	Serenity	Teacher
2007	Gordon Glass	Karen
2011	Shuffle	Linda
2015	Justice League: Gods and Monsters	Bekka/Wonder Woman	Voice
2015	Angus Falls	Mina	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	A Different World	Roast Attendee	Episode: "Never Can Say Goodbye"
1992	Freshmen Dorm	Carla	Episode: "The Scarlet Letter"
1996-1997	Party of Five	Grace Wilcox	16 episodes
1998	Dawson's Creek	Laura Weston	2 episodes
1999	Early Edition	Meredith Armstrong	Episode: "Blowing Up is Hard to Do"
1999	Providence	Tracy Doyle	Episode: "The Phantom Menace"
2000	City of Angels	Dr. Ana Syphax	13 episodes
2002-2003	Hidden Hills	Sarah Timmerman	17 episodes
2003	Miracles	Dr. Linda Qualey	Episode: "The Ferguson Syndrome"
2003	Everwood	Dr. Lence	Episode: "Daddy's Little Girl"
2003	Becker	Dana McCall	Episode: "The Unbelievable Wrongness of Talking"
2003	Without a Trace	Tracy McAllister	Episode: "Trip Box"
2004	The District	Agent Halpern	Episode: "A.K.A."
2004	Six Feet Under	Roger's Lawyer	Episode: "Bomb Shelter"
2004	CSI: Miami	Dr. Leslie Harrison	Episode: "Crime Wave"
2004	One on One	Judy	Episode: "Who Brought the Jive Turkey?"
2005	Lost	Susan Lloyd	2 episodes
2005	Sex, Love & Secrets	Nina	8 episodes
2005-2006	NCIS	Special Agent Cassie Yates	2 episodes
2006	Numb3rs	Olivia Rawlings	Episode: "The O.G."
2006	3 lbs	Della	Episode: "Lost for Words"
2006-present	Bones	Dr. Camille Saroyan	189 episodes
2015	Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles	Bekka/Wonder Woman	Episode: "Big"

[ Source: Wikipedia ]