Jill Schoelen

Known for ActingBorn 1963-03-21 (age 63)Burbank, California, USA

Jill Marie Schoelen (born March 21, 1963) is an American actress. A more unconventional husky-voiced "scream queen" heroine of the 1980s was Jill Schoelen, daughter of well-known fashion designer Dorothy Schoelen. Born and raised in Burbank, she studied at the Acting for Life Theatre in Burbank and started off on TV as a teen in the Fame-influenced TV pilot called Best of Times (1981) (TV) starring the up-and-coming Nicolas Cage and Crispin Glover. She gained in experience with a number of innocuous films geared mostly toward the young, including D.C. Cab (1983), Thunder Alley (1985) and Hot Moves (1984). The dark-eyed, black-haired pretty with the trademark bangs wouldn't find her horror niche until hooking up with Wes Craven and his TV movie Chiller (1985) (TV). From there she scored big with the cult shocker The Stepfather (1987) wherein she played the resourceful stepdaughter terrorized by the lecherous, meek-appearing Terry O'Quinn as the title monster. The sleeper hit put Jill on the map with a seemingly solid future, continuing on with The Phantom of the Opera (1989), this time keeping company opposite Freddy Krueger inhabiter Robert Englund as her deranged pursuer. But a few bumps in the road with such lowgrade fodder as Curse II: The Bite (1989), Cutting Class (1989) and Popcorn (1991) put a permanent damper on her career, despite coming back with a bit of grit in the thriller TV movie When a Stranger Calls Back (1993) (TV). Her object-of-a-stalker days behind her after filming Not Again! (1996), she settled comfortably back and raised two children with husband/musician/composer Anthony Marinelli.Read more

Movies & web series

Rich Girl

Billionaire Boys Club

Sara

In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994

The Heights

Happy Endings

Little House on the Prairie

Murder, She Wrote

Diagnosis: Murder

Not Again!

State Of Mind

Trauma Center

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story

The Stepfather

T. J. Hooker

Midnight Madness: The Making of "Popcorn"

There Goes My Baby

Hell Town

When a Stranger Calls Back

Popcorn

Shattered Spirits

The Phantom of the Opera

That Was Then... This Is Now

The Best of Times

Babes in Toyland

D.C. Cab

Curse II: The Bite

Cutting Class

Adventures in Spying

Hot Moves

Thunder Alley

Stereo-Vision

Chiller

A Taboo Identity

Ralph's Perfekt Christmas

Behind the Mask: The Making of The Phantom of the Opera

Great Day

A Dying Art