Trivia: First acting appearance was in a middle-school staging of Fiddler on the Roof. Starred in various college plays at New York University and Fordham University. Made her feature film debut in Dark Matter (2007). Came to prominence for her role as Piper Chapman in the hit Netflix original series Orange is the New Black. Is a fan of the Boston Red Sox baseball team. Was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series (Drama) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014 for her role in Orange is the New Black. Is descended from the artists Henry Brown Fuller and Lucia Fuller. Grew up hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards from her father who was an assistant district attorney.

Trivia: Acted with the Manitoba Theatre for Young People as a child. In high school, he once organized a protest against the Youth News Network, a current-affairs program that offered an in-class TV broadcast that included commercials. Appeared in the Great Canadian Theatre Company's 2004 production of Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Had to learn to ride a horse for his role in cable's Camelot. To prepare for his role as a cop in Rookie Blue, he received training from two Canadian police officers.

Trivia: Debut feature film role was Cecy Hall in the TV movie What Katy Did in 1999. Is an alumnus of the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles. Played Marissa Chandler on the ABC soap opera All My Children from 2009 to 2010. Was awarded a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in 2011 for her role in All My Children. Contributed to the writing of the 2015 comedy/ drama film Almost Anything directed by Torre Catalano.

Trivia: Is of Jamaican-Nigerian descent.Made her acting debut playing Artful Dodger in her middle school's production of Oliver Twist.Met Denzel Washington while performing in an uncredited role in 2002's John Q. and the acting legend reportedly inspired her to continue to pursue acting.Impressive theatre career includes lead roles in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Children's Hour.Works with Canadian charity Third World Awareness that challenges young adults to reach out and help those in need.

Trivia: One of the better villains of the late silent era, veteran American actor Richard Neill hailed from a Philadelphia Main Line family. The handsome, mustachioed actor entered films with the Edison company in 1908 after more than a decade of supporting such stage luminaries as E. H. Sothern, Augustus Thomas and Louise Dresser. Neill was considered something of a daredevil during the first decade of filmmaking and became "the first white man to take a canoe through the foaming rapids of Au Sable Chasm." That was during the 1911 filming of the Edison 1-reel The Spirit of the Gorge. Neill performed other stunts in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1912), also for Edison, before switching to Thanhouser and Fox. In interviews, Neill proclaimed to be mainly interested in playing villains "in comedies," but the gaunt-looking actor would soon find himself typecast as "half-breeds" or Mexicans in "B"-Westerns. He did scores of them in the 1920s, including Harry Carey's Satan Town (1926; as "Cherokee Charlie") and Buddy Roosevelt's The Desert of the Lost (1927; as the vicious bandit "El Chino). Sound rudely interrupted this string of memorable characterizations, but the veteran actor continued in films, hundreds of them, as an extra. When he died at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills at the age of 94, Neill's obituary claimed he had been in films for seventy years.