{"id":66288,"date":"2013-07-29T15:26:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2013\/07\/29\/lorraine-toussaint-joins-netflixs-orange-is-the-new-black-for-season-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T09:10:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T09:10:30","slug":"lorraine-toussaint-joins-netflixs-orange-is-the-new-black-for-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/lorraine-toussaint-joins-netflixs-orange-is-the-new-black-for-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorraine Toussaint joins Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black for Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lorraine Toussaint joins Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black<\/a> for Season 2<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

July 29, 2013<\/p>\n

Source: Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n

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Heading into second season, Netflix\u2018s comedic prison drama Orange Is The New Black<\/strong> has added veteran actress Lorraine Toussaint<\/strong> in a heavily recurring role. Additionally, Danielle Brooks<\/strong>, who recurred on Season 1 as Taystee, has been promoted to regular. She joins fellow newly minted series regular Taryn Manning<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Toussaint, repped by Innovative and manager Craig Dorfman, will play Vee, a longtime street tough who ran her own drug business, recruiting children to serve as runners. She recurs on ABC Family\u2019s The Fosters<\/strong> and starred in Ava Duvernay\u2019s Middle Of Nowhere<\/strong>. Brooks, repped by Innovative, landed the role of carefree Tasha Jefferson aka Taystee fresh out of Julliard.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Based on Piper Kerman\u2019s memoir \u2018Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women\u2019s Prison,\u2019 the series stars Laura Prepon, Jason Biggs, Taylor Schilling, Kate Mulgrew, Michael Harney, Michelle Hurst, Matt McGorry<\/a>, Natasha Lyonne<\/strong>, Samira Wiley, Vicky Jeudy, Lolita Foster,\u00a0 Uzo Aduba, Adrienne C. Moore, Laverne Cox<\/strong>, Dascha Polanco<\/strong>, Brooks, and Pablo Schreiber<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Orange Is the New Black follows engaged Brooklynite Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), whose decade-old relationship with drug-runner Alex (Laura Prepon) results in her arrest and year-long detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper must trade her comfortable New York life with fiance Larry (Jason Biggs) for an orange prison jumpsuit and a baffling prison culture where she is forced to question everything she believes and form unexpected new alliances with a group of eccentric and outspoken inmates.<\/p>\n

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