JayR Tinaco

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JayR Tinaco
Born (1989-01-04) 4 January 1989 (age 32)
Sydney, Australia
OccupationActor

JayR Tinaco (born 5 January 1989)[1][citation needed] is an Australian actor known for their[a] role in the Netflix series Another Life.[2]

Early life[]

Tinaco was born in Manila, Philippines,[citation needed] and grew up in Queensland, Australia.[3]

Early in their career, agents told Tinaco that they needed to do more "straight acting". Tinaco later told Variety "When you’re an actor starting out and you have an agent telling you this, you want to listen because you want to make it and you want to work."[4]

Career[]

Tinaco started a career working in the hospitality industry in Sydney. In 2009, they won their first television role performing a trapped student in two episodes of the Australian series Home and Away. Between 2012 and 2015, Tinaco appeared in short films such as Simone Pietro Felice's The Life Again, Samuel Leighton-Dore's Showboy (in which they portray a drag queen), and The Wake by Leigh Joel Scott. In 2016, they appeared in two episodes of the Australian series Rake.[5]

Tinaco moved to Canada to pursue their acting dreams back in early 2017. In September 2018, Tinaco joined Katee Sackhoff, Tyler Hoechlin, Justin Chatwin, Samuel Anderson and Elizabeth Ludlow in the American series Another Life, broadcast in 2019 on Netflix. Tinaco played Zayn Petrossian, the non-binary military doctor aboard the spaceship Salvare. Speaking of Tinaco’s character as "an important role" because the story in the series is not about coming out nor sex. The same year, Tinaco appeared as the restaurant's host in the Netflix film Always Be My Maybe by Nahnachka Khan.[2]

Personal life[]

Tinaco is non-binary and uses he/him and they/them pronouns [3]

Filmography[]

Movies[]

  • 2015: Drown by Dean Francis: Dan
  • 2019: Always Be My Maybe by Nahnachka Khan: Saintly Fare Host

TV shows[]

  • 2009: Home and Away: a trapped student (2 episodes)[6]
  • 2016: Rake: Qi (2 episodes)[6]
  • 2019: Another Life: Zayn Petrossian (10 episodes).[2]
  • 2020: A Million Little Things: Stevie (1 episode)

Short films[]

  • 2012: Your Life Again by Simone Pietro Felice: Alan
  • 2014: Showboy by Samuel Leighton-Dore: the drag queen

Notes[]

  1. ^ Tinaco uses he/him and they/them pronouns. This article uses singular they for consistency.

References[]

  1. ^ Allschoolsinfo. "JayR Tinaco Biography". Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c White, Brett (26 July 2019). "Zayn on 'Another Life': Meet JayR Tinaco's Breakout Character". Decider. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Leighton-Dore, Samuel (31 July 2019). "Australian actor JayR Tinaco's role in 'Another Life' helped them come out as non-binary". SBS Australia. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  4. ^ Zukin, Meg (5 June 2020). "How Gender Non-Conforming Actors Are Changing Hollywood". Variety.
  5. ^ Lang, Nico (12 September 2019). "How Starring in a Netflix Show Helped This Nonbinary Actor Thrive". Out. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Rogers, Destiny (11 August 2019). "Aussie star JayR Tinaco scores lead role in Netflix's 'Another Life'". QNews.
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