Arts & Entertainment

'The Americans,' Starring Wayne's Holly Taylor, Premiers Sunday

Taylor is a senior at Wayne Hills High School.

Things are heating up for Wayne’s Holly Taylor on “The Americans.”

Taylor, a Wayne Hills High School senior, plays Paige Jennings, the 15-year-old daughter of Russian spies Elizabeth and Philip, played by Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys.

Season four of the hit FX series premieres Wednesday.

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Last season proved to be an important one for Taylor’s character. Her parents are Russian KGB spies posing as Americans. She spent last season trying to figure out what that means for her. And her parents have to work through that as well once they found out that Paige told her church pastor about their double lives.

Jennings' plans for her future are clashing with her parents' plans for her and she must learn what it means to truly trust them, the network said in its season four preview.

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Taylor was born in Nova Scotia, Canada and moved to New Jersey when she was 3. Her family enrolled her in a dance class and told her parents that she was going to dance on Broadway when she grew up. It didn’t take long for her to get there.

She was cast in the Broadway production of “Billy Elliot” when she was 11.

She “Billy Elliot” in 2011 to develop her acting skills and was cast in “The Americans” in the summer of 2012.

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