Eliza Taylor

• Name — Eliza Taylor • Birth Name — Eliza Jane Taylor-Cotter • Born — 24 October 1989 • Birthplace — Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Other Names — Eliza Morley • Occupation — Actress • Years Active — 2003–present • Children — 1 • Known for — * Neighbours • The 100 • Quantum Leap

Taylor was born in Melbourne 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,[5] 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.[6] Taylor had originally auditioned for the role of Lana Crawford. 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] 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] 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 appeared in an episode of All Saints, followed by an appearance in the 2010 pilot of Winners & Losers.[14] In 2011, Taylor filmed a role in the horror film 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]

• Illustration — Taylor at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con for The 100 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. 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] 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] 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] In 2022, Taylor appeared in the guest role of Doctor Villka in The Orville episode "From Unknown Graves".[32] 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] 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] Also in 2023, Taylor starred as series regular Hannah Carson in season 2 of Quantum Leap.[40] In 2025, Taylor and Morley created the short film Status: Active.[43] Morley wrote and directed the film, while Taylor co-produced and starred in it. The film premiered at LA Shorts International Film Festival 2025.

• Illustration — Eliza Taylor and her husband, Bob Morley 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] 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]

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2003 — Pirate Islands — Sarah Redding — Main role • Neighbours — Jacinta Martin — 2 episodes • The Sleepover Club — Rosie Cartwright — Main role, season 1 • 2004 — Blue Heelers — Tatum O'Hara — Episode: "Cast the First Stone" • 2005–2008 — Neighbours — Janae Timmins — Main role • 2006 — Blue Water High — Heidi Lee (uncredited) — Episode 35 • 2008 — Rush — Madison Taylor Hume — Episode: "Get Lucky" • 2009 — Packed to the Rafters — Kerry — Episode: "Losing the Touch" • All Saints — Carly Spalding — Episode: "The Two of Us" • 2010 — City Homicide — Melissa Standish — Episode: "Last Seen" • 2012 — Howzat! Kerry Packer's War — Rhonda — 1 episode • 2013 — Mr & Mrs Murder — Sarah — Episode: "Little Boxes" • 2014–2020 — The 100 — Clarke Griffin — Main role, 98 episodes • 2019 — Josephine Lightbourne VIII — Main role, 7 episodes • 2022 — The Orville — Doctor Villka — Episode: "From Unknown Graves" • 2023–2024 — Quantum Leap — Hannah Carson — Main role, 7 episodes

• Year — Title — Artist — Notes — Ref. • 2021 — Vices — Sarah & the Sundays — Music video • Bad Posture — Abby Anderson — Music video

• Year — Title — Role — Notes — Ref. • 2007 — Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs Pantomime — Snow White — Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs in Weymouth Pavilion, England

Eliza Taylor was born on 24 October 1989 in Melbourne. Taylor held the nationality of Australia.