Australian actor JayR Tinaco (born 5 January 1989) is best known for playing Dr. Xyler in Space Force and Zayn Petrossian in the Netflix series Another Life.
Tinaco was raised in Queensland, Australia, after being born in Manila, the Philippines.
Tinaco’s agents advised him to perform more “straight acting” early in his career. Tinaco then stated to 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.”
JayR Tinaco children: Does JayR Tinaco have children?
JayR Tinaco has no known children. He identifies as a non-binary.
In Sydney, Tinaco first worked in the hotel sector. He appeared as a detained student in two episodes of the Australian sitcom Home and Away in 2009, earning him his first television role.
Tinaco made appearances in a number of short films between 2012 and 2015, including Simone Pietro Felice’s The Life Again, Samuel Leighton-Dore’s Showboy (in which he plays a drag queen), and Leigh Joel Scott’s The Wake. He made two appearances in 2016 in the Australian series Rake.
