Taylor Schilling
Biography
Taylor Schilling was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, Robert, is a former prosecutor, and her mother, Patricia "Tish" (Miller), works in administration at MIT. Taylor attended Wayland High School, but graduated from West Roxbury High School in 2002, and made her film debut in Dark Matter (2007). She starred in the movies Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) and The Lucky One (2012), and has a role in director Ben Affleck's Argo (2012). As of 2013, she stars as Piper Chapman in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black (2013).
42years old
Turns 43 on July 27in 268 days
- Born Boston
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
- Also credited as Taylor Jane Schilling
Movie Career
- Films
- 10
- Career span
- 13 years2011 to 2024
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Big break
In 2009, Schilling played a former military nurse back from an Iraq tour on the NBC medical drama Mercy. She read for the part by videotape from New York City and impressed creator Liz Heldens, who brought her to Los Angeles to audition.
A first
Schilling's off-Broadway debut came in 2015, when she took a starring role in the play A Month in the Country.
Early training
Schilling went to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for its graduate acting program, wanting to keep up her acting studies, but she left after her second year.
A role that slipped away
Schilling had a supporting role in Argo in 2013, which Ben Affleck directed, but most of her scenes were cut.
Taylor Schilling movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Worked with
Taylor Schilling made one film with each of them. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Christian Slater's page
Robert Forster's page
Luke Wilson's page
Tom Wilkinson's page
Jon Polito's page
All films by Scott Hicks
Lennart RuffDirector, 1 film, 2018
All films by Lennart Ruff
Nicholas McCarthyDirector, 1 film, 2019
All films by Nicholas McCarthy
Box office
What Taylor Schilling's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$130 million
8 of the 10 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 10 films: 8 worldwide figure; 1 us gross only; 1 figure not found.
- 8Worldwide figure
- 1US gross only
- 1Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$99M76.7% of the total
- 2$21M16.3% of the total
- 3$4.6M3.6% of the total
- 4$2.6M2.0% of the total
- 5$1.1M0.8% of the total
- 6$695K0.5% of the total
- 7$4K0.0% of the total
- 8$3K0.0% of the total
