Winstina Taylor is a multitasking, multi-talented, award-winning Sierra Leone raised; American-trained actress, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and humanitarian. Growing up she was always branded as a leader and goal-getter.
She attended Seaton Elementary in Washington DC where she was part of the drama club, sister to sister team helping girls become self-empowered. She attended the Shaw Junior High School where she received many presidential honorary awards and was accepted in Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington DC; but went to Duval high school in Maryland where she was part of the multicultural drama club team, Step team, soccer, softball. She furthered to the Prince George Community College and earned her Registered Nurse degree and went on to get her master’s degree in Nursing Education at the Walden University. Currently, Winstina is pursuing her Doctor of Nursing degree (DNP).
Some of her movies are now distributed across Africa through IROKO TV, DSTV Channel, UK nations, and many more outlets. Winstina’s drive is a force to be reckoned with, and she has proven that African movies can be done, and successfully so, in the USA, and helps crossover the racial and ethnic lines. She has been nominated for several awards in the movie industry as well as for her work as a humanitarian. The ambitious Winstina is the busy on-the-go woman who has her sights set on expanding her business and operations, having launched a successful production company Prime International Productions to help upcoming actors and entertainers to have a local production company to call home.
For an educated and successful woman with calibre like Winstina, she has managed to balance family life, work, and play, with serious dedication in helping the helpless especially in her Sierra Leone community via Immaculate Charities which is co-owned by her mother – Rosemarie Sesay, who is engaged in educating and feeding the poor in Sierra Leone and many other places.
Winstina has taken a serious dedication to her Sierra Leone community in the US and back home. She has done educational tours to teach about health, communicable diseases, infectious diseases, and hygiene to the rural people of Sierra Leone. Winstina’s current charity work is called 25days of Christmas where she selected 25 family in need and support them from December 1 to December 25 – with a bag of rice, cooking materials, and money for each of the families.
Winstina’s greatest mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style “simply put by Maya Angelou, while putting a smile on everyone that comes around her and see no one left behind in poverty or hunger.
AWARDS
Pan African International Awards: most outstanding African person of the year 2017
Diaspora Entertainment Awards (D.E.A): Best Producer 2016
LANFA-: BEST ACTRESS 2015
SLAAM: 2014 BEST ACTRESS
The spring of joy “the Gem of Africa” award 2014.
Diaspora nominee best actress NFCA 2014
GIAMA Diaspora nominee for best actress (2013)
Vigor Awards International 2017- Achievement award
LANFA 2017- Best supporting actress for the movie “Bigamy”
Next Generation Entertainment Awards (NGEA) 2017
Best actress “The Company”
Best movie producer “The Company”
Best movie “The Company”
Best NGO – Immaculate Charity Foundation
AWOL America 2017
Best movie producer “The Company”
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