Yael Stone

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Summary

Yael Stone is an Australian actor known for Orange Is the New Black and extensive theatre work. Her screen roles include emotionally complex women, while Orange Is the New Black brought her into a series whose stories include incarceration and sexuality. Stone has made climate action a public cause: she announced plans to give up her U.S. green card, pledged half the earnings from roles requiring air travel to emissions-reduction groups, and founded the community climate initiative Hi Neighbour. She also publicly described alleged sexual misconduct by Geoffrey Rush, becoming one of Australia’s prominent #MeToo voices; no public partisan affiliation or sustained DEI campaign is on record.