JayR Tinaco

JayR Tinaco (born 4 January 1991, Manila, Philippines) is an Australian actor known for their [Notes 1] role in the Netflix series Another Life.[1]

JayR Tinaco
Born (1989-01-05) January 5, 1989
OccupationActor
Home townSydney, New South Wales, Australia

Early life

JayR Tinaco was born in Manila, Philippines, and grew up in Queensland, Australia.[2]

Tinaco, who goes by “he/him” and “they/ them,” was told by agents early on in their career that they needed to be doing more “straight acting”: “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.” Tinaco told Variety (magazine). [3]

Career

Tinaco started a career working in the hospitality industry in Sydney. In 2009, Tinaco 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 Tinaco portrays a drag queen), and The Wake by Leigh Joel Scott. In 2016, Tinaco appeared in two episodes of the Australian series Rake.[4]

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.[1]

Personal life

JayR Tinaco identifies as non-binary/gender non-conforming, using the pronouns "he" or "they". [2]

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)[5]
  • 2016: Rake: Qi (2 episodes)[5]
  • 2019: Another Life: Zayn Petrossian (10 episodes). [1]
  • 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 identifies as gender non-binary and uses either "he/him" or "they/them" pronouns. (See here.)
gollark: (I intend to test rail here)
gollark: FEAR the rail test site.
gollark: Ah, the server lives ish?
gollark: Some computers are still running.
gollark: I nanofabricate most goods, but yes.

References
  1. White, Brett (2019-07-26). "Zayn on 'Another Life': Meet JayR Tinaco's Breakout Character". decider.com. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  2. Leighton-Dore, Samuel (2019-07-31). "Australian actor JayR Tinaco's role in 'Another Life' helped them come out as non-binary". SBS Australia. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  3. Zukin, Meg (2020-06-05). "How Gender Non-Conforming Actors Are Changing Hollywood". Variety.
  4. Lang, Nico (2019-09-12). "How Starring in a Netflix Show Helped This Nonbinary Actor Thrive". out.com. Retrieved 2019-10-31.Lang, Nico (2019-09-12). "How Starring in a Netflix Show Helped This Nonbinary Actor Thrive". out.com.
  5. Rogers, Destiny. "Aussie star JayR Tinaco scores lead role in Netflix's 'Another Life'". qnews.co.au.


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