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.

Фільмографія

• 2025Ralph's Perfekt Christmas — Heather
• 2024Stereo-Vision — Katherine Barrows
• 1996Not Again! — Jenny
• 1994There Goes My Baby — Babette
• Diagnosis: Murder — Becky Garfield
• 1993Triumph Over Disaster: The Hurricane Andrew Story — Ruth Henderson
• 1993When a Stranger Calls Back — Julia Jenz
• 1992Adventures in Spying — Julie Converse
• 1992State Of Mind — Wishman
• The Heights — Betty B
• 1991Popcorn — Maggie
• 1991Rich Girl — Courtney
• 1989Curse II: The Bite — Lisa Snipes
• 1989Cutting Class — Paula Carson
• 1989The Phantom of the Opera — Christine Day
• Billionaire Boys Club — Amy Whitehall
• 1987Вітчим — Stephanie Maine
• 1986Babes in Toyland — Mary Piper / Mary Contrary
• 1986Shattered Spirits — Allison
• 1985Chiller — Stacey
• Hell Town — Shelley
• Sara — Emily
• 1985That Was Then... This Is Now — Angela Shepard
• 1985Thunder Alley — Beth
• 1984Hot Moves — Julie Ann
• Вона написала вбивство — Flora Gerakaris
• 1983D.C. Cab — Claudette
• 1983Great Day — Carla Simpson
• 1983Happy Endings — Anne Marie Bartlett
• Trauma Center — Leslie
• T. J. Hooker — Kelly Hobbs
• 1981The Best of Times — Jill
• Little House on the Prairie — Jane Canfield
• A Dying Art — Mitzy Rudzinski

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (5)

• 2024In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 — Self
• 2022Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story — Self
• 2017A Taboo Identity — Herself
• 2017Midnight Madness: The Making of "Popcorn" — Self
• 2015Behind the Mask: The Making of The Phantom of the Opera — Self