JayR Tinaco

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JayR Tinaco
Born (1989-01-04) 4 January 1989 (age 35)
Manila, Philippines
OccupationActor
Years active2009–present

JayR Tinaco (born 5 January 1989) [1] is a Filipino-Australian actor, known for his role as Zayn Petrossian in the Netflix series Another Life and Dr. Xyler in Space Force . [2]

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Early life

Tinaco was born in Manila, Philippines,[ citation needed ] and grew up in Queensland, Australia. [3]

Early in his career, agents told Tinaco that he needed to do more "straight acting". Tinaco later told Variety "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." [4]

Career

Tinaco started a career working in the hospitality industry in Sydney. In 2009, he won his 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 he portrays a drag queen), and The Wake by Leigh Joel Scott. In 2016, he appeared in two episodes of the Australian series Rake . [5]

Tinaco moved to Canada to pursue his 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 on Netflix. Tinaco played Zayn Petrossian, the non-binary military doctor aboard the spaceship Salvare. It ran for two seasons from 2019 to 2021. [6] The same year, Tinaco appeared as the restaurant's host in the Netflix film Always Be My Maybe . [2]

Tinaco also appears as Dr. Xyler in the second season of the Netflix series Space Force , which was released in February 2022. [7]

Personal life

Tinaco is non-binary. Regarding his pronouns, he says, "I still identify with the pro-nouns He/His/Him in my personal life, but I have friends that call me 'They' or even 'she' and I’m okay with that." [3]

Filmography

Movies

TV shows

Short films

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