Details
Title
Genre
Episodes
Broadcast network
Air time
Language
Country
Premiere
Source
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: Orange is New Black
: Comedy , Drama
: 13
: Netflix
: 60 minute
: English
: USA
: 11 July, 2013
: IMDB - Wikipedia |
Synopsis
Orange Is the New Black revolves around Piper Chapman (Schilling), a woman from Connecticut, living in New York City who is sent to the women's Litchfield, NY federal prison for possessing a suitcase full of drug money for Alex Vause (Prepon), an international drug smuggler and Chapman's one-time lover. Sentenced to serve a fifteen-month sentence, Chapman must survive the hardships of prison life, and she may have to be a different person to do so. |
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Main Cast
- Taylor Schilling as Piper Chapman. Piper is sent to prison for carrying drug money for her past girlfriend, Alex, and navigates the stresses it creates in her life and with her fiancé Larry. While in prison, Piper endures it all while trying to understand and find her place in the hierarchy, and even runs into Alex. Piper started a line of artisanal soaps prior to leaving for prison.
- Laura Prepon as Alex Vause. Alex, Piper's former girlfriend, is serving time in the same prison as Piper. Alex, with a mother that worked four jobs and a washed-up rock star for a father, grew up poor with girls in school bullying her and eventually wound up in the drug business.
- Michael J. Harney as Sam Healy. Healy helps to run the prison and manages Piper's case, among others. He is in a relationship with an immigrant who has two years left to wait until she gets her green card.
- Michelle Hurst as Miss Claudette. Miss Claudette is Piper's roommate and is very strict, but softens after time with Piper. Miss Claudette ran an illegal immigration and child labor cleaning service, which she herself was inducted into when she came to the United States as a child.
- Kate Mulgrew as Galina 'Red' Reznikov. Red owned a restaurant with her husband and worked with the Russian mob. Red, now in prison, is the go-to woman in prison and runs it behind the scenes. Red has taken under her wing a group of women, and gives those girls, some of whom are former drug users, two chances to make it in her group before they are booted.
- Jason Biggs as Larry Bloom. Larry, a struggling author trying to climb the journalist ladder, finds out that his fiancée, Piper, has to go to prison. Even through the hardships of prison Larry believes that their relationship can make it through Piper's time in prison.
- Taryn Manning as Tiffany "Pennsyltucky" Doggett. A prisoner who goes around preaching about God and healing others. Works with Alex in the laundry room. Often causes problems for Alex and Piper.
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Trailer
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