Alysia Reiner facts for kids
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Alysia Reiner
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Reiner in May 2017
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Gainesville, Florida, U.S.
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| Alma mater | Vassar College |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Known for | Natalie "Fig" Figueroa in Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019) |
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David Alan Basche
(m. 1997) |
| Children | 1 |
Alysia Reiner is an American actress. She is famous for playing Natalie "Fig" Figueroa in the Netflix comedy-drama show Orange Is the New Black from 2013 to 2019. For this role, she won a special award called a Screen Actors Guild Award with the other actors in the cast.
Alysia also starred in and produced a movie about money and business called Equity. This movie was bought by Sony Pictures Classics and shown all over the country. Now, it's even being made into a TV show! She has acted in many plays that are not on Broadway, and she won an Obie Award for her acting in a play called An Oak Tree. In the popular movie Sideways, Alysia played Christine Ergarian. For this, she won her first Screen Actors Guild Award as part of the movie's cast. She also played District Attorney Wendy Parks in the ABC crime and legal TV show How to Get Away with Murder. You might also know her as Sunny in the FX comedy Better Things.
In 2014, she appeared as Lilian Izikoff on Rosewood. She also played Trina in the TBS show Search Party.
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Her Early Life and Education
Alysia Reiner was born in Gainesville, Florida in 1970. She went to Vassar College and studied acting. She also learned acting at the British American Drama Academy and the National Theater Institute. Alysia is Jewish.
Her Acting Career
On Stage
Alysia has performed in many plays. She joined Tim Crouch in the play An Oak Tree, which won an Obie Award. She also acted in Jayson with a Y and other plays like Anaïs Nin: One of Her Lives. People who watch theater often call her an "Off-Broadway Favorite." The New York Times newspaper even said her acting was "priceless."
On Screen
Alysia Reiner has been in many movies. Some of them include Kissing Jessica Stein, The Vicious Kind, Arranged, and 5 Flights Up. In 2004, she played Christine Erganian in the movie Sideways. This movie won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. She has also acted in many independent films.
On television, Alysia has appeared in over 50 shows. She has been a main character, a guest star, or had a recurring role. Her most famous TV role is Natalie Figueroa in the Netflix show Orange Is the New Black. In 2014, she joined the cast of the ABC legal drama How to Get Away with Murder. In this show, she played D.A. Wendy Parks, a lawyer who worked against Viola Davis's character. In 2018, Reiner also joined the cast of The Deuce as an agent named Kiki Rains.
Behind the Scenes
In 2014, Alysia Reiner shared exciting news. She announced that she would be starting her own company called Broad Street Pictures. The goal of this company is to make movies that feature strong female characters.
Her Personal Life and Causes
Alysia Reiner has been married to actor David Alan Basche since 1997. They have a daughter named Livia. The family lives in Harlem, New York City.
Alysia cares a lot about helping others. She works with many groups that do good things. These include the Cancer Support Community and Actors for Autism. She also supports PEN International, which helps writers, and SAY: The Stuttering Association for the Young. Other groups she helps are Bent on Learning, Safe Kids Worldwide, and The Young Women's Leadership Network. She also supports Amnesty International, Cool Effect, and Election Defenders. Before the 2022 elections, Alysia used social media to remind people to check their IDs. She told them to use VoteRiders for help with voter ID information.
See Also
In Spanish: Alysia Reiner para niños
