Holland Taylor

Holland Taylor has never married and has mostly remained silent about her sexuality. She confirmed in 2015 that she was lesbian. However, she has always kept the identities of her lovers hidden. In a recent interview, she revealed her relationship with Sarah Paulson. Sarah is 31 years younger to her. Holland once clarified in an interview that the age gap did not matter to her.

Around the early 2000s, she became interested in spirituality and attained her master’s degree in spiritual psychology from the ‘University of Santa Monica.’

Holland Taylor was born on January 14, 1943, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Virginia and C Tracy Taylor. Her father was an attorney, and her mother was an acclaimed professional painter. She grew up with her two older sisters, Patricia and Pamela.

She studied at the ‘Westtown School,’ a boarding school in her home state. The desire to excel in performing arts had her aiming for a future in the entertainment industry. Soon after graduating high school, she enrolled at ‘Bennington College,’ from where she graduated in drama.

She was aware of the hardships that she would face if she moved to Los Angeles. She decided to venture into ‘Broadway’ first, which was at its prime in New York in the 1960s. She soon moved to New York and began appearing in ‘Broadway’ and ‘Off-Broadway’ projects. Her performances earned her accolades and a number of TV offers.

Some of her earliest ‘Broadway’ roles were in the plays of acclaimed playwrights Simon Gray and AR Gurney. She was appreciated for her solid performances in ‘Broadway’ plays such as ‘The Cocktail Hour’ and ‘Butley.’ Her performance in ‘The Cocktail Hour’ earned her a ‘Drama Desk’ award nomination. Throughout the 1960s, the 1970s, and the 1980s, she appeared in both ‘Broadway’ and ‘Off-Broadway’ projects and managed them along with her successful film and TV career.

In 1969, Holland bagged her debut TV role in the series ‘J.T.’ It was a short-lived role that went unnoticed, and the series itself could not lift itself up and was canceled after a while. She then appeared in small roles in the series ‘Love Is a Many Splendored Thing,’ ‘Somerset,’ and ‘Beacon Hill.’

She made her film debut in the year 1976, when she played the role of a TV interviewer in the film ‘The Next Man.’ Although she starred in many small roles in the next few years, she could not manage to gain remarkable success in her acting career until the 1980s. In the 1980s, and she finally started getting noticed by a wider audience.

In the late 1970s, her soap opera ‘The Edge of Night’ brought her widespread fame. The show featured her as ‘Denise Cavanaugh,’ who was shown killing herself only to take revenge on her husband by framing him for the murder. Her performance in the soap opera earned her an offer from the producers of the sitcom ‘Bosom Buddies’ in 1980.

She earned a major role in the sitcom ‘Bosom Buddies,’ which starred Tom Hanks in the lead role. She played the role of his sexy and seductive boss. Over the next few years, as she started appearing in better roles, she proved that she was equally good in dramatic and comic roles. In the mid-1980s, her career received a boost with key roles in the series ‘Me and Mom’ and ‘Harry.’