Taylor Schilling Net Worth

Taylor Schilling (born July 27, 1984) is an American actress. She starred as Nurse Veronica Flanagan Callahan in the short-lived NBC medical drama Mercy (2009a??2010). She later played Dagny Taggart in Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011), Beth Green in The Lucky One (2012); and Piper Chapman in the Netflix original series, Orange is the New Black (2013a??present).


Schilling was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Patricia "Tish" Miller, an MIT administrator, and Robert J. "Bob" Schilling, a former prosecutor, and grew up in West Roxbury and Wayland, splitting time between her divorced parents.
A fan of the NBC medical drama ER during her youth, Schilling began acting at a young age. She became active in her middle school's theater program when she appeared in a stage production of Fiddler on the Roof. After graduating from Wayland High School in 2002, she attended Fordham University's New York City campus at Lincoln Center, where she continued to take part in stage productions before earning her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2006. Schilling then entered the graduate program at New York University to continue her acting studies, but left after her second year to start auditioning. While she attempted to break into acting, Schilling supported herself by working as a nanny for a Manhattan-based family. Eventually, she made her feature film debut with a supporting role in the 2007 independent film Dark Matter.
In 2009, Schilling was selected to star in the NBC medical drama Mercy, playing Nurse Veronica Flanagan Callahan, a tough Iraq War veteran and former military nurse-turned-medical practitioner. Reading for the part via video tape from New York City, Schilling impressed the show's creator and executive producer Liz Heldens and her husband who then flew her out to Los Angeles to audition for the role. In Heldens' words, "she just blew the doors off the audition". Prior to this experience, Schilling had only one screen credit. The show ran for one season from Se