Received a Bachelors Degree in Acting in 2006 from Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York City.
First acting appearance was in a middle-school staging of "Fiddler on the Roof".
Her father is of Polish and Irish descent, while her mother's ancestry includes German, English, Swedish, Dutch, and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish.
Attended and graduated from Wayland High School in Wayland, Massachusetts in 2002.
Starred in various college plays at New York University and Fordham University.
On her mother's side, is the great-great-granddaughter of artists Henry Brown Fuller and Lucia (Fairchild) Fuller, and great-great-great-granddaughter of figure and portrait painter George Fuller (Lucia's father).
Parents are Robert and Patricia Schilling; has a younger brother: Sam Schilling.