2003–2013: Career beginnings and Neighbours 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. Taylor had originally auditioned for the role of
Lana Crawford. 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". 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. Later in 2008, she filmed a short drama-comedy movie called
The Laundromat. 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. In 2011, Taylor filmed a role in the horror film
6 Plots. 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.
2014–2020: The 100 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. 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. In 2014, Taylor starred as Sarah in the thriller film
The November Man. 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. The same year, she starred as Ellen Langford in the
Netflix Christmas romantic comedy-drama film
Christmas Inheritance.
2021–present: Recent work In 2021, Taylor directed two music videos: "Vices" by Sarah and the Sundays, in which she also acted, and "Bad Posture" by
Abby Anderson. In 2022, Taylor appeared in the guest role of Doctor Villka in
The Orville episode "From Unknown Graves". 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. The same year, Taylor served as an executive producer and starred as Ruby Allen in the independent romantic comedy
It Only Takes a Night. Also in 2023, Taylor starred as series regular Hannah Carson in season 2 of
Quantum Leap. In 2025, Taylor and Morley created the short film
Status: Active. Morley wrote and directed the film, while Taylor co-produced and starred in it. The film premiered at LA Shorts International Film Festival 2025. == Personal life ==