Tatyana Marisol Ali is an American born actress and singer. Tatyana is half hispanic, her mother Sonia Ali being from Panama, and her father, Sheriff Ali, from the British West Indies. Tatyana herself is a native of Long Island, New York.

At the age of four, Tatyana began singing, and by seven she won the Star Search television contest two times.

Tatyana's breakthrough came when she was cast as Ashley Banks for the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. She sang on various episodes, and Will Smith asked her if she considered a career as a singer seriously. Despite her singing ability, she concentrated on her acting career and her job as Ashley for the next few years, until there was only one more year left for the show, when she began preparing herself for her debut album of Daydreaming, which made it to Billboard's top 100 at number six.

Filmography:

1987 Eddie Murphy Raw
1988 Crocodile Dundee II
1988 Wow, You're a Cartoonist!
1997 Fakin' da Funk
1997 Kiss the Girls
1998 The Clown at Midnight
1999 Jawbreaker
2000 Brother
2001 The Brothers
2003 National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze
2004 Nora's Hair Salon
2005 Back in the Day
2005 Domino One
2006 Glory Road
2006 A Warm Place
2007 The List
2008 Down & Out
2008 Nora's Hair Salon 2: A Cut Above
2008 Hotel California
2009 Mother and Child
2010 Love That Girl!
2010 Privileged
2010 Locker 13
2010 The Misguided Adventures of Dating in Hollywood

Television:

1985,1990 Sesame Street
1989 Wally and the Valentines
1989 A Man Called Hawk
1989 The Cosby Show
1990–1996 The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
1993 Getting By
1994 Are You Afraid of the Dark?
1994 TV's Funniest Families
1995 In the House
1996 Living Single
1996 Kidz in the Wood
1996 Fall Into Darkness
1997 413 Hope St.
2002 Fastlane
2003 Half & Half
2007 On the Lot
2007–present The Young and the Restless
2010 Love that Girl