Lorraine Toussaint

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Summary

Lorraine Toussaint is an actor known for Any Day Now, Orange Is the New Black, Selma, and The Glorias, with roles ranging from dramatic authority figures to complex mothers and antagonists. She has described Any Day Now as addressing race directly and said she chooses projects that reflect America’s diversity. Discussing The Village, she praised its showrunner for following through on diversity and said black women are not often allowed to show the full range of their qualities on television. No public party affiliations, political endorsements, or activist organization roles are on record.