Taleia Gilliam

Gilliam's documented screen work starts in 2009 — two films in the same year, which isn't nothing. *Willa Mae, the Church Lady Vampire Slayer* and *See Dick Run* both landed that year, and while neither crossed over into wide theatrical release, they're the kind of indie productions that build a working actor's reel. Niche titles. The kind that don't get reviewed in Variety but do get remembered by the people who made them. *The Angels of Death* followed in 2011, extending what looks like a stretch of consistent low-budget film work across that two-year window. Then there's a gap in the documented record — at least publicly — before her name surfaces again in connection with *Waffles + Mochi's Holiday Feast* in 2021, a Netflix production tied to Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground production banner that drew significant attention for its warm, inclusive approach to holiday storytelling for kids. I can't confirm the exact nature of her role in that project without risking overreach, but the credit is noted across multiple streaming-guide sources including Apple TV listings. *Da' Booty Shop*, a comedic series also surfacing in those same listings, rounds out what we can responsibly say about her television work. The throughline here — if there is one — seems to be a comfort working across wildly different registers, from genre horror-comedy to family programming, which is a specific kind of professional flexibility that doesn't always get recognized. Flickchart places her at two film credits on their platform, though that number likely undercounts her full output given how inconsistently independent film credits get aggregated across databases.