Tabyana Ali

Tabyana Ali (born January 28, 2002) is an American actress and author.

Ali was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, but later moved to California with her mother to begin a career in the entertainment industry.

Tabyana Ali was born on January 28, 2002, in San Antonio, Texas.

Ali attended Hidden Forest Elementary and later Trinity Christian Academy.

As a child, Ali enjoyed singing, dancing and performing.

Ali has said that she was a creative child and would often use her imagination to write short films and scripts.

She had a MacBook where she would record herself dancing and make videos with her dog.

Ali's mother, grandmothers and aunts exposed her to soap operas when Ali was growing up, with Ali joking that they went "insane" when they found out that she had been cast on General Hospital.

Her family helped her catch up on the storylines when they found out that she would be joining the soap.

Ali has a close friendship to her General Hospital co-star, Eden McCoy.

Ali supports the Cinderella Program of The Saving Our Daughters, an organisation set up by Keke Palmer which aims to empower girls and women through the arts.

Ali also sings, dances and bakes.

Ali also loves animals and cooking and enjoys gardening and crafting with her grandmother.

In January 2024, Ali's hometown, San Antonio, declared January 13 as "Tabyana Ali Day" (also known as "Love Without Walls Day") in honor of her achievements.

Ali has said that she loves food and that she enjoys going out to restaurants to eat the local cuisine when she visits San Antonio, where her family still lives as of 2024.

Ali and her mother later moved to California in order to pursue a career in the entertainment industry.

Ali's first acting role came when she was eight years old, where she acted in a commercial.

Ali took acting classes and took part in auditions, and in 2013 she got her first agent.

Ali used the name "Tabyana Ford" when she first began her career.

One of Ali's first onscreen appearance was being a contestant of the game show Win, Lose, or Draw.

Ali then appeared in guest roles in various television shows, including New Girl (2015), Shimmer and Shine (2019) and The Big Show Show (2020), in addition to the Black horror film Horror Noire (2021).

In 2015, Ali appeared in one episode of the fourth series of the sitcom New Girl.

In 2017, Ali appeared in A Kid Called Mayonnaise.

In 2019, Ali voiced the character of Leelee in the Children's animated television series Shimmer and Shine.

The following year, Ali guest starred in an episode of The Big Show Show.

In 2020, Ali released her first children's book, My Flower Child.

In 2022, Ali took over the role of Trina Robinson on the soap opera General Hospital.

Ali became popular with fans partly through Trina's romance with Spencer Cassadine (Nicholas Chavez), with the two featuring on the cover of People.

In 2023, Ali published her second children's book, My Super B.

The following year, San Antonio declared January 13 as "Tabyana Ali Day" in honor of Ali's achievements.

In August 2020, Ali published her first Children's book, My Flower Child.

Speaking of My Flower Child, Ali revealed that the book was about the bond and shared experiences of a mother and her daughter, explaining that the book "is for mothers and daughters everywhere of all ages".

A kindle version was published in August 2022, followed by a revised paperback version in October of that same year.

In 2021, Ali appeared in the first episode of Stuck Together.

That same year, she appeared as Regina in the Black horror film Horror Noire.

In March 2022, it was announced that Ali would be taking over the role of Trina Robinson in the American soap opera General Hospital.

Ali took over the role from Sydney Mikayla, who chose to leave the soap in order to focus on her studies.

The role had also previously portrayed by Tiana Le.

Frank Valentini, the executive producer of General Hospital, said that he was "excited to welcome Tabyana Ali and see what she'll do with the role of Trina".

Following the news of the recast, fans of the soap opera sent Ali messages of support on Twitter and welcomed her, as did Mikayla, who Tweeted "You got this" to Ali.