Eliza Taylor

Taylor was born in Melbourne, Australia and has two sisters and a brother. Her mother is an author and a graphic designer, her stepfather was a stand-up comedian, and her biological father owned cafés around Melbourne. As a child, she wanted to be a marine biologist.^[4]

After a lead role in Pirate Islands, Taylor starred as Rosie Cartwright in The Sleepover Club in 2003. She transitioned to mature audience programs with a guest role on Blue Heelers in 2004.

In 2005, Taylor achieved her breakthrough in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. She secured the role of Janae Timmins after previously appearing in a guest role in 2003.^[5] Taylor had originally auditioned for the role of Lana Crawford.^[6] In 2007, Nell Feeney and Sianoa Smit-McPhee, who play Taylor's on-screen mother Janelle Timmins and sister Bree Timmins, were written out of the serial.^[7] Later that year, Taylor quit the serial and partially attributed her departure to the exits of Feeney and Smit-McPhee, stating that the show "just didn't feel like the family that I joined when I started three years ago".^[8][9] Taylor finished filming her last studio scenes in 2007 and her final episode was screened on 8 February 2008. In 2007, she was nominated for Best Female at the Inside Soap Awards.

She portrayed Snow White in a Christmas pantomime of Snow White from 19 December 2007 to 6 January 2008 in Weymouth Pavilion, England.^[10][11][12]

Later in 2008, she filmed a short drama-comedy movie called The Laundromat.^[13] The film premiered in 2010 at Dungog Film Festival.

In 2009, she was in an episode of All Saints. In July 2010, Taylor appeared in the pilot of Winners & Losers.^[14] In 2011, Taylor filmed a role in the horror movie 6 Plots.^[15][16] In 2012, Taylor played a nurse in the Australian supernatural horror film, Patrick: Evil Awakens, a remake of the 1978 film of the same name.^[17][18]

On 1 March 2013, it was announced that Taylor had been cast as lead character Clarke Griffin in the new post-apocalyptic science fiction drama series The 100 on The CW.^[19][20] The series premiered on Wednesday, 19 March 2014.^[21] Explaining how she got the part in the series, Taylor said:

I didn't actually audition. I'd been living in LA for about a month and my credit card was stolen and all my money was taken – spent at Home Depot, which was great – and I was ready to pack my bags and go back to Australia because I didn't know how I was going to survive in LA any longer and then I got a call from my manager to say that an audition I'd done months ago for a film had been looked at by the producers of this TV show called The 100 and they wanted me to go in for a reading the next day. So I read the script that night and loved it and went in for the meeting the next day and got the role. Before I knew it I was on a plane to Vancouver to shoot the pilot and my whole life changed.^[22]

In 2014, Taylor starred as Sarah in the thriller film The November Man.^[23][24]

For her role in The 100, Taylor was nominated for Choice TV Actress: Sci-Fi/Fantasy at the Teen Choice Awards from 2015 to 2018.

In 2017, Taylor starred as Kat Carter/Meredith in a thriller-drama film Thumper.^[25][26] The same year, she starred as Ellen Langford in the Netflix Christmas romantic comedy-drama film Christmas Inheritance.^[27]

In 2021, Taylor directed two music videos: "Vices" by Sarah and the Sundays,^[28] in which she also acted,^[29] and "Bad Posture" by Abby Anderson.^[30][31]

In 2022, Taylor appeared in the guest role of Doctor Villka in The Orville episode "From Unknown Graves".^[32][33]

In 2023, Taylor and Morley starred together as Julie and Marcus Alexander in the sci-fi thriller I'll Be Watching, which Taylor executive produced.^[34][35][36] The same year, Taylor served as an executive producer and starred as Ruby Allen in the independent romantic comedy It Only Takes a Night.^[37][38][39] Also in 2023, Taylor starred as series regular Hannah Carson in season 2 of Quantum Leap.^[40][41][42]

In 2025, Taylor and Morley created the short film Status: Active.^[43][44][45] Morley wrote and directed the film, while Taylor co-produced and starred in it. The film premiered at LA Shorts International Film Festival 2025.

On 7 June 2019, Taylor announced on Twitter that she had married Bob Morley, her co-star on The 100.^[46] Taylor and Morley were originally set to direct episodes for the seventh and final season of The 100. However, Taylor was unable to direct her episode due to suffering from a miscarriage.^[47]

On 20 March 2022, they announced the birth of their son.^[48][49]

In a 2024 interview with Tommy DiDario on his I’ve Never Said This Before podcast, Taylor discussed her year-long struggle with postpartum depression.^[50]