Taylor Schilling is an American popular film and television actress. She was repeatedly nominated for such prestigious awards as Teen Choice Award, Emmy, Golden Globe. She is the recipient of the Screen Actors Guild Awards and the Sputnik Prize. Her greatest success was brought to her role in the television series "Orange is the hit of the season."
Boston, located in the US state of Massachusetts, is the hometown of Taylor Schilling. She was born in 1984 in the family of an administrator and a prosecutor. Taylor's date of birth: July 27. Unfortunately, the girl's parents did not live long in marriage, as a result, Taylor raised her mother, but the girl often saw her father and visited him. And, despite the fact that Taylor's inner circle was far enough away from art and creativity, from a young age she began to dream of an acting career.
Taylor Schilling biography facts
In childhood, Taylor loved to watch TV, and her favorite TV series eventually became the TV show "Ambulance".
Acting talent in the girl was noticeable from childhood, because when Taylor entered school, she immediately enrolled in a theater group. Schilling's first success came when she performed one of the leading roles in the musical play Fiddler on the Roof. After the premiere of the school play, teachers and spectators highly appreciated the abilities of the little artist, which only strengthened the girl's desire to become a professional and famous actress.
After graduating from high school and graduating from school in 2002, Taylor successfully passed the exams and was admitted to the Fordham Institute. In 2006 she graduated from high school and became a Bachelor of Arts. Then Schilling became a student at an institute located in New York. There she developed her acting talent, studied stage skills and took an active part in student productions.
Her first film and television debut happened when Taylor was still a student. She starred in The Dark Story, which premiered in 2007. After that, the girl began to be invited to new projects, so she could not complete her education in New York. In addition to working on film sets, Taylor worked as a nanny, and also worked as a television extra for some time.
Development of an acting career
After her debut role, it took some time before Taylor reappeared on the set. She was able to get a regular role in the television series Mercy, which began airing in 2009. In total, the young actress starred in twenty-two episodes of this TV show.
The next job for Taylor was the feature film Atlas Shrugged: Part 1, which was released in 2011. The following year, two more films were released: "Operation Argo" and "Lucky". Taylor Schilling was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for her role in the second movie referenced.
In subsequent years, the filmography of the young actress was replenished with roles in such film projects as "Stay", "Overnight", "Kidnap Me". In 2018, two films were released at once, in which Taylor Schilling played: the sci-fi thriller "Titan" and the horror "Omen: Rebirth", which went to the Russian box office at the end of winter 2019.
Taylor's role in the acclaimed television series "Orange is the New Black" helped Taylor become a really popular actress. The girl got into the cast of the project immediately, and the series itself began to appear on screens in 2013. Schilling got the permanent - regular - role of a character named Piper Chapman. It is worth noting that Taylor continues to act in this project to this day, and for her acting in the show, she was repeatedly nominated for a number of prestigious awards. In 2014, she won the Sputnik Awards (twice) and the Screen Actors Guild of the United States.
Love, relationships and personal life
Taylor Schilling does not like answering questions about her personal life. She is not very active in maintaining profiles on social networks, and even there she tries not to publish information or photographs about how she lives outside the set, what she does and with whom she communicates.
However, there is information that Taylor is currently not married and is dating a girl named Carrie Brownstein, who is a musician, author of books and is ten years older than Taylor.
