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Taylor Schilling to Star in Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black

Brian Scott Lipton

Brian Scott Lipton

| New York City |

August 30, 2012

Stage and screen star Taylor Schilling has landed the lead role in Jenji Kohan’s new Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, according to The Hollywood Reporter.


The one-hour show, based on the book by Piper Kerman, focuses on a Brooklyn woman whose decade-old relationship with a drug-runner in college results in her arrest and multi-year detention in a federal penitentiary.


Schilling co-starred in Uncle Vanya at the Bard Center. Her film and television credits include The Lucky One, Atlas Shrugged, and Mercy.

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