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Taylor Schilling

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Taylor Schilling at an event for The Lucky One (2012)
Set in the Wild West early days of the Internet, "Pam & Tommy" is based on the incredible true story of the Pamela Anderson (Lily James) and Tommy Lee (Sebastian Stan) sex tape. Stolen from the couple's home by a disgruntled contractor (Seth Rogen), the video went from underground bootleg-VHS curiosity to full-blown global sensation when it hit the Web in 1997. A love story, crime caper and cautionary tale rolled into one, the eight-part original limited series explores the intersection of privacy, technology and celebrity, tracing the origins of our current Reality TV Era to a stolen tape seen by millions but meant to have an audience of just two.
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Taylor Schilling (born July 27, 1984) is an American actress. She is known for her role as "Piper Chapman" on the Netflix original comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black (2013) (2013-present), for which she won the 2013 Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Television Series Drama and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014. She made her film debut, in 2007 with Meryl Streep, in the drama, Dark Matter (2007). Schilling also starred as "Veronica Flanagan Callahan" in the short-lived NBC medical drama, Mercy (2009) (2009-10). Her other films include Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011), the romantic drama The Lucky One (2012) and the political thriller Argo (2012).

Schilling was born on July 27, 1984 in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the daughter of Patricia (née Miller), an MIT administrator, and Robert J. Schilling, a former prosecutor. She grew up in West Roxbury and Wayland, splitting time between her divorced parents. A fan of the NBC medical drama, ER (1994), during her youth, she began acting at a young age. She became active in her middle school's theatre program, when she appeared in a stage production of "Fiddler on the Roof".

After graduating from Wayland High School in 2002, Schilling attended Fordham University's campus at Lincoln Center, where she continued to take part in stage productions, before earning her Bachelor of Arts in 2006. She then entered the graduate program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts to continue her acting studies, but left after her second year to start auditioning. While attempting to break into acting, she supported herself by working as a nanny for a Manhattan-based family.

Schilling made her feature film debut, with a supporting role in the independent film, Dark Matter (2007). In 2009, she was selected to star in the NBC medical drama, Mercy (2009), as "Nurse Veronica Flanagan Callahan", a tough Iraq War veteran and former military nurse-turned-medical practitioner. Reading for the part via videotape from New York City, she impressed the show's creator and executive producer, Liz Heldens, who then flew her out to Los Angeles to audition for the role. In Heldens' words, "she just blew the doors off the audition". The show ran for one season, from September 2009 to May 2010.

Schilling won the Emerson College Playwright's Festival Outstanding Performance Award. She portrayed "Dagny Taggart" in Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011), and co-starred with Zac Efron in the romantic drama film, The Lucky One (2012). She currently stars as "Piper Chapman" in the Netflix original series, Orange Is the New Black (2013), based on the Piper Kerman memoir, "Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison". The show premiered on July 11, 2013. For her work on the show, Schilling was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014.
BornJuly 27, 1984
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  • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
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Colin O'Brien and Taylor Schilling in Dear Edward (2023)
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Seth Rogen and Taylor Schilling in Pam & Tommy (2022)
Seth Rogen and Taylor Schilling in Pam & Tommy (2022)
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Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling in The Lucky One (2012)
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Kate Mulgrew, Natasha Lyonne, Selenis Leyva, Laura Prepon, Taylor Schilling, Uzo Aduba, Dascha Polanco, and Danielle Brooks in Orange Is the New Black (2013)
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  • Christine Mendez
  • 2012
Christian Slater, Alec Baldwin, Emilio Estevez, Gabrielle Union, Jacob Vargas, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jeffrey Wright, and Taylor Schilling in The Public (2018)
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  • Angela
  • 2018

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  • Queen of Bones
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    • Post-production
  • Dear Edward (2023)
    Dear Edward
    • Lacey
    • TV Series
    • 2023
  • Katie Chang in Pantheon (2022)
    Pantheon
    • Renee (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2022
  • Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan, and Lily James in Pam & Tommy (2022)
    Pam & Tommy
    • Erica
    • Erica Boyer
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2022
  • Audra McDonald and Taylor Schilling in The Bite (2021)
    The Bite
    • Lily
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2021
  • Monsterland (2020)
    Monsterland
    • Kate Feldman
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • Kate Mulgrew, Natasha Lyonne, Selenis Leyva, Laura Prepon, Taylor Schilling, Uzo Aduba, Dascha Polanco, and Danielle Brooks in Orange Is the New Black (2013)
    Orange Is the New Black
    • Piper Chapman
    • TV Series
    • 2013–2019
  • Robert Forster, Greg Kinnear, Luke Wilson, Jay Duplass, Kurt Fuller, Emily Mortimer, Bradley Whitford, and Taylor Schilling in Phil (2019)
    Phil
    • Samantha Ford
    • 2019
  • Taylor Schilling and Jackson Robert Scott in The Prodigy (2019)
    The Prodigy
    • Sarah Blume
    • 2019
  • Fabrizio Guido and Taylor Schilling in Family (2018)
    Family
    • Kate
    • 2018
  • Sam Worthington and Taylor Schilling in The Titan (2018)
    The Titan
    • Dr. Abi Janssen
    • 2018
  • Christian Slater, Alec Baldwin, Emilio Estevez, Gabrielle Union, Jacob Vargas, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jeffrey Wright, and Taylor Schilling in The Public (2018)
    The Public
    • Angela
    • 2018
  • Pat Healy and Taylor Schilling in Take Me (2017)
    Take Me
    • Anna St. Blair
    • 2017
  • Drunk History (2013)
    Drunk History
    • Emily Roebling
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Judith Godrèche, Adam Scott, Jason Schwartzman, and Taylor Schilling in The Overnight (2015)
    The Overnight
    • Emily
    • 2015
  • Aidan Quinn and Taylor Schilling in Stay (2013)
    Stay
    • Abbey
    • 2013

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  • Alternative name
    • Taylor
  • Height
    • 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
  • Born
    • July 27, 1984
    • Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Parents
      Patricia Miller
  • Relatives
    • Sam Schilling(Sibling)
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  • Trivia
    She is close friends with her co-stars Laura Prepon and Natasha Lyonne from Orange Is the New Black (2013).
  • Quotes
    I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what--but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
  • Salary
    • Orange Is the New Black
      (2013)
      $35,000 per episode

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