Jill Schoelen
Born
1963-03-21
Place of birth
Burbank, California, USA
Biography
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 M...
Known for
Little House on the Prairie
TV Series
Murder, She Wrote
Flora Gerakaris
The Stepfather
Stephanie Maine
Popcorn
Maggie
The Phantom of the Opera
Christine Day
Cutting Class
Paula Carson
Diagnosis: Murder
Becky Garfield
D.C. Cab
Claudette
Babes in Toyland
Mary Piper / Mary Contrary
T. J. Hooker
Kelly Hobbs
When a Stranger Calls Back
Julia Jenz
Curse II: The Bite
Lisa Snipes
Chiller
Stacey
That Was Then... This Is Now
Angela Shepard
Hot Moves
Julie Ann