Teyana Taylor Net Worth: How Acting, Music and Directing Built $10 Million

Teyana Taylor’s net worth is estimated at $10 million as of October 2026, built over two decades as a choreographer, singer, music video director and, most recently, one of Hollywood’s most in-demand actors. Her turn as Perfidia Beverly Hills in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another won her a Golden Globe and earned her a first Academy Award nomination, for Best Supporting Actress, at the 98th Academy Awards on March 15, 2026.

Published estimates for Taylor range from $5 million to $8 million, and neither fully reflects the run of film, streaming and directing work that followed her Oscar campaign. She has never disclosed a film fee or record contract value, so there is no verified figure. The Radar Readout below shows the published numbers, how we model from them, and how wide the uncertainty is.

Teyana Taylor Net Worth at a Glance

How Teyana Taylor’s $10 Million Net Worth Is Built

There is no Tier A figure for Taylor, such as a Forbes valuation or a filing that lists her assets, so we build from the highest recent published estimate. Celebrity Net Worth puts her at $8 million on a page last updated in January 2026. We trim that to $7 million for tax and living costs, then add what she most likely kept from each income lane since. These lanes are modeled, not reported. The central values match the widget and add up to the headline figure.

For actors we assume they keep roughly half of gross pay after agents, managers, lawyers and tax. One useful reference point on her earning power comes from her divorce: Celebrity Net Worth reports that Iman Shumpert’s June 2024 court filing claimed Taylor earned about $94,000 a month, roughly double the $48,000 he reported for himself. That is his claim in a dispute, not a verified number, but it suggests income above $1 million a year before her Oscar season.

One Battle After Another and the Oscar Breakthrough

Taylor had been acting for more than a decade before One Battle After Another changed her career. Anderson cast her as Perfidia Beverly Hills, a member of the revolutionary group French 75 and the mother of Willa, in a film led by Leonardo DiCaprio. Warner Bros. released the film in the United States on September 26, 2025.

The film grossed $213.1 million worldwide on a budget that Warner Bros. put at $130 million and Variety reported as $175 million. Taylor won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture, along with best supporting honors from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics. She was also nominated at the Critics’ Choice Awards and BAFTA.

At the Oscars on March 15, 2026, One Battle After Another won Best Picture and six awards in total. Taylor was nominated for Best Supporting Actress alongside Elle Fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Wunmi Mosaku; the award went to Amy Madigan for Weapons. Even without the win, the nomination raised her profile and, in our view, her asking price for future roles. Her actual fee for the film has not been reported.

Acting Career: From Madea to Netflix and Hulu

Taylor’s screen career began with Stomp the Yard: Homecoming in 2010 and Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family in 2011. She appeared in the TV series Star from 2017 to 2018 and played Bopoto Izzi in Coming 2 America in 2021. Her first major lead came in A Thousand and One (2023), which earned her the National Board of Review’s Breakthrough Performance Award. She also appeared in White Men Can’t Jump and The Book of Clarence that year.

The work since has been steady and high profile. She played Detective Kay Raymond in Netflix’s Straw (2025), a role that won her an NAACP Image Award. In Ryan Murphy’s legal drama All’s Fair, which premiered on Hulu on November 4, 2025, she plays Milan; Hulu renewed it for a second season in November 2025, and filming began in May 2026. She also co-starred with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in Joe Carnahan’s Netflix film The Rip, released January 16, 2026, and has 2026 roles in 72 Hours and a cameo in Scary Movie.

Series regular work on a streaming drama is usually the most reliable income lane for an actor, which is why acting is the largest addition in our model. None of her salaries have been made public, so the range is wide.

Music Career: Star Trak, GOOD Music and Her Own Label

Taylor first broke through as a dancer. At 15 she choreographed Beyonce’s “Ring the Alarm” video, and she appeared on MTV’s My Super Sweet 16 in 2007. She signed with the Star Trak imprint through Interscope, and her first single, “Google Me,” debuted at No. 90 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in 2008.

In 2012 she joined Kanye West’s GOOD Music, distributed by Def Jam, and appeared on the label compilation Cruel Summer, which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. Her debut album VII (2014) reached No. 19 on the Billboard 200 and topped the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Her dance in West’s 2016 “Fade” video, which she also helped choreograph, earned an MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography in 2017.

K.T.S.E. followed in 2018, and The Album (2020) debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, her first top 10 album. Forbes named her to its 30 Under 30 Music list in 2020. After hinting at retirement in December 2020, she returned with Escape Room on August 22, 2025, released through her own Taylormade Enterprises with distribution by Def Jam. It peaked at No. 67 on the Billboard 200 and earned her first Grammy nomination, for Best R&B Album. Owning her label means a bigger share of any streaming income, though we treat music as a modest lane because no sales or touring figures have been published.

Music Video Director

Behind the camera, Taylor, who also goes by Spike Tee, has directed videos for artists including Schoolboy Q, Ty Dolla Sign, Monica and Lil Durk, including the 2019 remix of Lil Durk’s “Home Body,” on which she also features. She was named Video Director of the Year at the BET Awards in 2020 and again in 2023.

Her directing has now moved to features. She is directing and producing Get Lite for Paramount, her feature directorial debut, which was in filming at last report. Directing and producing fees for a first feature are not public, so we keep this lane conservative at $500,000 kept since early 2026.

Brand Deals, Fitness and Reality TV

Taylor signed with Adidas in 2013 to design two sneakers. The first, the Harlem GLC, was released on February 16, 2013, and Adidas reportedly said it was the fastest-selling sneaker in Adidas Originals history. She later collaborated with Jordan Brand on a limited Air Jordan 1 Zoom CMFT 2 “Gym Red,” which retailed at $150. In March 2017 she launched Fade 2 Fit, a 90 day dance and fitness program with a workout apparel line.

Television added more income. She was a judge on America’s Best Dance Crew in 2015, starred with Iman Shumpert in the reality series Teyana & Iman (2018) and We Got Love Teyana & Iman (2021), and won season 7 of The Masked Singer in 2022 as “Firefly.” Her 2025 and 2026 honors, including Ebony Power 100 Entertainer of the Year, Time Woman of the Year and the BET Awards Icon of the Year, point to growing brand demand, though no new endorsement values have been reported.

Real Estate and Divorce

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Taylor and Shumpert bought a roughly 5,700 square foot, five bedroom home in Studio City, Los Angeles for about $3 million, listed it at $3.695 million in August 2020 and sold it in June 2022 for $4 million. The couple married on October 1, 2016, Taylor announced their separation in September 2023, and the divorce was finalized in 2024.

Settlement terms are disputed. Wealthy Gorilla reports that Taylor was to receive a seven-figure payment and four properties worth about $10 million, while Celebrity Net Worth says it found no evidence for those claims, which spread in a viral post. We leave them out of our model. In August 2025 she was ordered to pay Shumpert $70,000 over leaked divorce details.

Why Other Sites Say $5 Million to $8 Million

The gap comes down to timing and method. Both sites give a single figure without showing their working, and neither appears to count the All’s Fair renewal, The Rip, or her Paramount directing deal. Our figure is higher, but the range still overlaps Celebrity Net Worth’s number.

How Teyana Taylor Compares

Taylor’s career has crossed paths with several stars we profile. She choreographed for Beyonce, danced in Jay-Z’s “Blue Magic” video, and was signed to Kanye West’s GOOD Music. She worked with Leonardo DiCaprio on One Battle After Another and with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck on The Rip. She also recorded “Freak On” with Chris Brown. Their profiles show how fortunes built over longer careers compare with hers, which took off on screen only recently.

Frequently Asked Questions About Teyana Taylor’s Net Worth

How much is Teyana Taylor worth in 2026?

We estimate Teyana Taylor’s net worth at $10 million as of October 2026, with a likely range of $7.4 million to $14 million. It is a modeled estimate, since none of her film, TV or record contracts have been made public.

Did Teyana Taylor win an Oscar?

No. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for One Battle After Another at the 98th Academy Awards on March 15, 2026, and the award went to Amy Madigan for Weapons. Taylor did win the Golden Globe for the same role, and the film won Best Picture.

How much does Teyana Taylor make a month?

Her exact income is not public. Iman Shumpert’s June 2024 divorce filing, as reported by Celebrity Net Worth, claimed she earned about $94,000 a month. That figure came from her ex-husband in a legal dispute and predates her Oscar nomination.

Does Teyana Taylor direct music videos?

Yes. She has directed videos for Lil Durk, Schoolboy Q, Ty Dolla Sign and Monica, and won BET’s Video Director of the Year in 2020 and 2023. She is now directing her first feature, Get Lite, for Paramount.

Who is Teyana Taylor’s ex-husband?

Taylor was married to basketball player Iman Shumpert from October 2016. They separated in 2023, finalized their divorce in 2024 and share two daughters.

What brands has Teyana Taylor worked with?

She designed sneakers for Adidas starting in 2013, including the Harlem GLC, and released a limited Air Jordan 1 Zoom CMFT 2 with Jordan Brand. She also launched the Fade 2 Fit workout program and apparel line in 2017.