Schilling is best known for her role as Piper Chapman in the widely popular Netflix series, Orange Is the New Black. For Orange Is the New Black, Schilling won the Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy.
When she was in middle school she joined the theater program and appeared in a stage production of Fiddler on the Roof. Her time at Fordham University’s campus at Lincoln Center gave her the opportunity to take part in stage productions. In 2006, Schilling graduated from college with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
She then went on to the graduate program at New York University to continue her acting studies, but soon left to begin auditioning. Taylor even worked as a nanny for a Manhattan-based family to support herself for a while to begin her career. When she read for the part of Veronica Flanagan Callahan in Mercy via videotape, she had “blown the doors off the audition,” as the show’s creator and executive producer Liz Heldens said. Soon after that, Schilling began to work on Orange Is the New Black, which is currently airing.
She was then sent to Los Angeles to audition for the role. However, the show had only run for one season from September 2009 to May 2010
The blonde Katy Perry lookalike made her first film debut in Dark Matter (2007). In the NBC medical drama Mercy, Schilling played the role of Veronica Flanagan Callahan. Schilling began to act at a young age. She was a fan of the NBC medical drama ER, which might have sparked her interest to act.
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