She is best known for her role as Alexandra in the 2015 film Tangerine for which she won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female.
Unable to secure legal employment at the age of 18, she worked as a sex worker in Hollywood.
[4] She lived in an apartment with her eventual Tangerine co-star Kitana Kiki Rodriguez.
It was at the age of 23, after five years of sex work and after four arrests for prostitution, Mya was approached by director Sean Baker and his co-screenwriter Chris Bergoch as she stood in the yard of Los Angeles' LGBT Center to star in their film Tangerine.
[12] In 2016 it was announced that ICM Partners signed Taylor and agreed to represent her for film and television acting and producing projects.