Taylor Schilling by Tommaso Mei for Vanity Fair Italia October 2015

Taylor Schilling (born July 27, 1984) is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Piper Chapman on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black, 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 (2009–10), Christine Mendez in Argo (2012), and Beth Green in The Lucky One (2012).