Taylor Schilling was born on the 27th July 1984, in Boston, Massachusetts USA, and is an actress, which is the main source of her net worth. She is the winner of three Satellite Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award and others, although she has been active in the entertainment industry only since 2007.
How rich is the actress? It has been estimated that the outright size of Taylor Schilling’s net worth is as much as $1.5 million. Currently, she stars in the comedy drama series “Orange Is the New Black” (2013 – present), and reportedly her salary is $35,000 per episode.
Taylor Schilling Net Worth $1.5 Million
To begin with, Taylor Schilling grew up in West Roxbury and Wayland Massachusetts after her parents divorced. She is the daughter of Robert Schilling, the prosecutor and Patricia Schilling who works at MIT. During her youth, she was passionate about the series “ER” and began to play very young, becoming active in her college dramas. After high school in Wayland, she went on to study at Fordham University on the Manhattan campus (Lincoln Centre), where she continued to perform on stage. She graduated in 2006 with a BA degree, and then continued her acting studies at the University of New York, Tisch School of the Arts, but dropped out after the second year in order to pursue the career in acting. She then started auditioning, but meantime worked as a nanny for a family in Manhattan.
In 2007, Taylor debuted playing a supporting role in “Dark Matter”, alongside Meryl Streep, and directed by Chen Shi-zheng, which won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007, although general reviews were mixed. From 2009 to 2010, she played the role of nurse Veronica Callahan in the television series “Mercy” aired on NBC. In 2011, Taylor played Dagny Taggart in “Atlas Shrugged: Part I” directed by Paul Johansson and in 2012 the female lead alongside Zac Efron in “The Lucky One” directed by Scott Hicks, based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks. Even though “The Lucky One” received mostly negative reviews, it was loved by cinema goers as the box office grossed $99 million with a budget of $25 million. It is worth mentioning, that Taylor was cast as the star in the political thriller “Argo” (2012) and won the award in the Best Cast category in the Hollywood Film Festival. Following this, she played the female lead role in the drama film “Stay” (2013) directed by Wiebke von Carolsfeld. In 2015, she starred alongside Adam Scott in the sex comedy “The Overnight” directed by Patrick Brice. Overall, all the roles have increased the total size of Taylor Schilling’s net worth.
Finally, in the personal life of the actress, rumours have been flying that she is homosexual, and tabloids were reporting that Taylor Schilling was dating Carrie Brownstein. However, Taylor keeps claiming that she is straight and single.
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