
Acting
Teisha Speight
Born
1988-10-20 (38)
Place of birth
Wilson, North Carolina, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
5 titles
Teisha Speight is an American actress best known for her work in TV and film. She has been performing since she was 11, initially within school-affiliated sports and marching band, then transitioning to the film industry. Over the course of her career in entertainment, she has appeared in a variety of projects ranging from regional and national commercials (Coca-Cola), to TV shows (including the Emmy-winning, FX show Atlanta), to feature films (most recently opposite an Oscar-winning actor). Teisha has diligently trained and studied her craft since the moment she departed NC State University early to pursue acting full-time. The rising star relocated to Atlanta, GA to get a taste of the Hol…
Known for
8.0Follows two of America’s wealthiest families, the Carringtons and the Colbys, as they feud for control over their fortune and their children focusing on Fallon Carrington, the daughter of billionaire Blake Carrington, and her soon-to-be stepmother, Cristal, a Hispanic woman marrying into this WASP family and America’s most powerful class.
Dynasty
2017
8.0Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families.
Atlanta
2016
7.6Down deep in the Mississippi Delta, Trap music meets film noir in this kaleidoscopic story of a little-strip-club-that-could and the big characters who come through its doors—the hopeful, the lost, the broken, the ballers, the beautiful, and the damned.
P-Valley
2020
6.9One day while returning home to stay with his widowed twin sister and her daughter, Kevin Finn, a self-centered man whose life brings him more trouble than he bargained for, is recruited by a celestial being named Yvette, who enlists Kevin with a new purpose in his life, which is to save the world.
Kevin (Probably) Saves the World
2017
7.4Based on real-life events, Girl In the Closet tells the story of 10 year old Cameron, who, after her mother suffered an aneurysm, was adopted by her Aunt Mia, who already had a husband and daughter of her own. Soon after arriving in her new home, Cameron started hearing strange, ghostly voices at night coming from the basement's locked door. Little Cameron would soon discover what was actually behind that door, people chained to the wall, innocent victims of her Aunt's schemes to enrich herself by cashing their benefit checks. It wasn't long before Cameron was demoted down into the basement herself, where she would stay for the next ten years while police thought she was missing.
Girl in the Closet
2023
Film credits
Series credits
8.0Follows two of America’s wealthiest families, the Carringtons and the Colbys, as they feud for control over their fortune and their children focusing on Fallon Carrington, the daughter of billionaire Blake Carrington, and her soon-to-be stepmother, Cristal, a Hispanic woman marrying into this WASP family and America’s most powerful class.
Dynasty
2017
8.0Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families.
Atlanta
2016
7.6Down deep in the Mississippi Delta, Trap music meets film noir in this kaleidoscopic story of a little-strip-club-that-could and the big characters who come through its doors—the hopeful, the lost, the broken, the ballers, the beautiful, and the damned.
P-Valley
2020
6.9One day while returning home to stay with his widowed twin sister and her daughter, Kevin Finn, a self-centered man whose life brings him more trouble than he bargained for, is recruited by a celestial being named Yvette, who enlists Kevin with a new purpose in his life, which is to save the world.
Kevin (Probably) Saves the World
2017
