Jill Schoelen

About Jill Schoelen

Jill Schoelen is best known for a variety of popular film and television projects during the 1980s & 1990s. She began her singing/acting career as a young teenager, debuting in TV commercials. That led to film and television roles starting with The Best of Times, a TV movie opposite Nicolas Cage and Crispin Glover. She then starred in 16 motion pictures and numerous television projects, including The Stepfather, Popcorn, Phantom of the Opera, Babes in Toyland, When a Stranger Calls Back, D.C. Cab, That Was Then... This Is Now and Billionaire Boys Club.

In the middle of a prospering career in the early 1990's, Jill decided to become a mother and left the entertainment business. In 2010, Jill returned to her first love of music, releasing her debut CD Kelly's Smile. With her business knowledge and background as an actress, singer, and dancer, Jill became an early producer on the musical Baby It's You in Los Angeles before it made its Broadway debut in 2011. She has also produced stage productions of the critically acclaimed shows The Standard Bearer in Los Angeles and San Francisco in 2011/2012, directed by Julian Sands, and A Celebration of Harold Pinter starring Julian Sands in San Francisco in 2012, directed by John Malkovich.

Jill returned to acting in 2023, starring in the feature film Mr. Christmas, a dark Christmas comedy scheduled for 2025 release, and the short film Stereo Vision.