Actors Journal – Lorraine Toussaint

Lorraine Toussaint is a highly accomplished actor, having won a SAG Award and Critics Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Vee in the hit series Orange Is the New Black. For her performance in Any Day Now, she was nominated for an NAACP Image Award as well as a TV Guide Award and won the Wiley A. Branton Award from the National Bar Association. Toussaint studied acting at NYC’s High School of Performing Arts and at the Julliard School of Drama. She spent more than a decade performing on Broadway before moving to TV and film, where her credits include Selma, Friday Night Lights, Saving Grace, Law & Order, Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy, Rosewood, Forever, and The Young and the Restless.