Lorraine Toussaint

Lorraine Toussaint

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Birthday: 
4 April 1960, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]
Height: 
175 cm
SAG Award and Critics Choice Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Lorraine Toussaint shocked audiences on the smash hit Netflix original series "Orange is the New Black" as the viciously seductive inmate Vee. Toussaint's epically thrilling performance has won her glowing reviews from the likes of TV Guide and V... Show more »
SAG Award and Critics Choice Award winner for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Lorraine Toussaint shocked audiences on the smash hit Netflix original series "Orange is the New Black" as the viciously seductive inmate Vee. Toussaint's epically thrilling performance has won her glowing reviews from the likes of TV Guide and Vanity Fair, stirring the Emmy buzz for her outstanding performance. Toussaint also received praise for her performance in the Academy Award nominated feature film "Selma." Up next, Toussaint will star in the new Fox series "Rosewood," alongside Morris Chestnut, which premieres this fall.Born in Trinidad and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Toussaint and her mother moved to Brooklyn when she was ten years old. Growing up, she watched a lot of television while she waited for her mother to return from work and this sparked her interest in acting. Toussaint begged her mother to enroll her in acting school and her search lead to her studying theater at New York's renowned High School of Performing Arts. After graduation, she enrolled herself at the Juilliard School's drama division where she graduated with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree. On her graduation day, she landed her first paying job as Lady Macbeth with "Shakespeare & Company."Toussaint spent the first 12 years of her career acting on stage in New York City before moving to Los Angeles. Her first television appearance was in 1983 in "The Face of Rage." Toussaint's biggest career boost has come from her co-starring role opposite Annie Potts in the TV series "Any Day Now," which earned Toussaint an NAACP Image Award nomination for best actress in a drama series, a TV Guide Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series and she received the Wiley A. Branton Award from the National Bar Association.Among Toussaint's TV credits were recurring roles on several popular television shows such as NBC's drama series "Friday Night Lights," TNT's "Saving Grace," "Law & Order," and ABC's hit "ugly Betty." She has also had several guest appearances on the hit television shows "CSI: Crime Investigation," "Grey's Anatomy," and opposite Kerry Washington on drama thriller "Scandal."No stranger to the silver screen, Touissant's first film role was opposite Burt Reynolds in the crime comedy "Breaking In." Touissant has also appeared in "Dangerous Minds," "The Soloist," and Ava DuVernay's "Middle of Nowhere," in which her performance was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female. Up next, Toussaint stars as Salome Whitmore in the upcoming period drama, "Sophie and the Rising Sun," written and directed by Maggie Greenwald. Toussaint will also play Anthony Mackie's mother in the upcoming Seth Rogen comedy "X-Mas," in theaters this November.Toussaint and her daughter currently split their time between New York and Los Angeles. Show less «

Lorraine Toussaint's FILMOGRAPHY

Chicago P.D. - Season 11

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The Equalizer - Season 4 (2021)

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The Talk - Season 14

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Your Honor - Season 2

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Big City Greens - Season 4

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Nimona (2023)

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Star Wars: Visions - Season 2

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The Magicians Elephant

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The Real Housewives of Atlanta - Season 15

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The Good Fight - season 6

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Chicago P.D. - Season 10

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Wolfboy and the Everything Factory - Season 2

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Greys Anatomy - Season 19

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Black-ish - Season 8

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The Equalizer - Season 3 (2021)

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The Young and the Restless - Season 50

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The Real Housewives of Atlanta - Season 14

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The Talk - Season 13

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The Good Fight - Season 5

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Grace and Frankie - Season 7

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Chicago P.D. - Season 9

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Summer Camp Island - Season 4

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Summer Camp Island - Season 5

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Lorraine Toussaint'S roles

Amelia Boynton
Amelia Boynton
Dr. Sherman
Dr. Sherman
Ruth
Ruth
Beth
Beth
Almond Joy
Almond Joy
Shambala Green
Shambala Green
Bird Merriweather
Bird Merriweather
Yvonne 'Vee' Parker
Yvonne 'Vee' Parker
Donna Rosewood
Donna Rosewood
Marla James
Marla James
Deputy D.A. Powell
Deputy D.A. Powell
Medical Examiner
Medical Examiner
Chief Angela Martin
Chief Angela Martin
Dr. Fincher
Dr. Fincher
Yoga
Yoga
Joanna Reece
Joanna Reece
Cressida
Cressida
Yvonne 'Vee' Parker, Yvonne Parker
Yvonne 'Vee' Parker, Yvonne Parker
Dr. Helen Fincher
Dr. Helen Fincher
Almaviligerais
Almaviligerais