American actress best known for portraying Piper Chapman on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black (2013-2019), for which she won the 2013 Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014. She made her film debut in the 2007 drama Dark Matter, alongside Meryl Streep. Schilling also starred as Veronica Flanagan Callahan in the short-lived NBC medical drama Mercy (2009–2010). Her other films include Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011), the romantic drama The Lucky One (2012), the comedy Take Me (2017) and the science fiction thriller The Titan (2018).
Regarding her sexuality, Schilling stated: “I’ve had very serious relationships with lots of people, and I’m a very expansive human.” In 2019 she added “I’ve had relationships with men and I’ve had relationships with women. It’s been about the person, not their gender. It’s a much more radical political act to not reduce oneself to a label simply to make other people feel more comfortable. I have had serious relationships with a lot of different people.” On Gay Pride 2020, she confirmed via Instagram her relationship with visual artist Emily Ritz.
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