JayR Tinaco

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

Early in their career, agents told Tinaco that they 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]

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

Tinaco moved to Canada to pursue their 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 in 2019 on Netflix. Tinaco played Zayn Petrossian, the non-binary military doctor aboard the spaceship Salvare. Speaking of Tinaco’s character as "an important role" because the story in the series is not about coming out nor sex. The same year, Tinaco appeared as the restaurant's host in the Netflix film Always Be My Maybe by Nahnachka Khan.[2]

Tinaco is non-binary and uses he/him and they/them pronouns.[3]