Yael Stone - Wikipedia Yael Stone Yael Stone Stone at PaleyFest 2014, representing Orange Is the New Black ( 1985 - 03 - 06 ) 6 March 1985 ( age 32 ) Sydney, Australia Alma mater National Institute of Dramatic Art Occupation Actress Years active 1999 -- present Spouse ( s ) Dan Spielman ( m. 2012 ; divorce 2016 ) Yael Stone ( born 6 March 1985 ) is an Australian actress. She has worked extensively in Australian theatre and has won two Sydney Theatre Awards. Outside of Australian theatre, she is best known for her portrayal of Lorna Morello in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4.1 Films 4.2 Television 5 References 6 External links Early life and education Stone was born and raised in Sydney, the daughter of Judy, a nurse, and Harry Stone, an architect. Her father was born in Czechoslovakia, to Holocaust survivor parents. Yael 's father is from a Jewish and Romanian family, and her mother converted to Judaism. Her brother, Jake Stone, was the lead singer of the band Bluejuice. Her sister, Elana Stone, is also a musician. Stone attended the Newtown High School of the Performing Arts and the National Institute of Dramatic Art ( NIDA ). Career Stone began acting as a child, with roles in the film Me Myself I and the miniseries The Farm. She worked primarily in theatre ; at the 2008 Sydney Theatre Awards, she won the awards for Best Newcomer and Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Kid. She also worked in television, including supporting roles in All Saints and Spirited. From 2010 to 2011, she appeared in The Diary of a Madman, a role for which she was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Sydney Theatre Awards. In February 2011, she traveled to New York City to perform in the Brooklyn Academy of Music 's production of The Diary of a Madman, before returning to lead roles in A Golem Story, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, and As You Like It in Sydney. Stone moved to New York permanently in December 2011 and co-founded an experimental theatre company. After four months in New York, she was cast in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, a show set in a women 's prison. Stone plays Lorna Morello, a prisoner from New Jersey ; her accent, a mixture of Brooklyn and Boston, was called `` the most amazing accent on television '' by a journalist for The New Republic, while another reviewer deemed the role to be Stone 's `` breakout turn ''. She reprised her role in the show 's second season, and was billed as a series regular in the third season. She has also appeared on the web series High Maintenance. Personal life In 2012, Stone married Australian actor Dan Spielman, with whom she lived in New York City. In July 2017, Stone announced that her marriage had ended over a year ago. Stone is an Atheist. Filmography Films Year Title Role Notes 1999 Me Myself I Stacy Dickson 2007 West Stacey 2011 Jailbirds Lucy Short film 2017 The Wilde Wedding Clementine Completed Television Year Title Role Notes The Farm Young Sam Cooper Miniseries 2007 -- 2008 All Saints Ann - Marie Preston 14 episodes 2010 -- 2011 Spirited Linda 13 episodes 2013 -- present Orange Is the New Black Lorna Morello 34 episodes Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series 2015 Childhood 's End Peretta Jones Miniseries 2015 -- 2016 High Maintenance Beth 3 episodes 2016 Deep Water Tori Lustigman Miniseries, 4 episodes 2017 Penn Zero : Part - Time Hero General Bighorn ( voice ) 1 episode References Jump up ^ The ' kooky ' life of Orange Is the New Black 's Yael Stone The Saturday Paper Jump up ^ A Golem Story ( interview with Yael Stone ). ReviewMania Jump up ^ McGuire, Michaela ( 2 May 2015 ). `` The ' kooky ' life of Orange Is the New Black 's Yael Stone ''. The Saturday Paper. Retrieved 24 August 2015. Jump up ^ ' I 'd rather be invisible ' : Orange is the New Black star Yael Stone speaks about stardom West Coast Sentinel ^ Jump up to : Spring, Alexandra ( 12 December 2011 ). `` Actress Yael Stone bites the acting bullet ''. Vogue Australia. Retrieved 25 April 2014. ^ Jump up to : Cronin, Seanna ( 2 November 2013 ). `` Yael Stone takes lead in Orange is the New Black ''. The Toowoomba Chronicle. Retrieved 25 April 2014. ^ Jump up to : Keenan, Catherine ( 17 January 2011 ). `` Love 's locks lost for brushes with lunacy ''. The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 April 2014. Jump up ^ Stone, Jake ( 8 May 2013 ). `` Yael Stone On Orange Is The New Black, And Trying To Make It In New York ''. Junkee. Junkee.com. Retrieved 2014 - 06 - 08. Jump up ^ Bennett, Laura ( 23 August 2013 ). `` Meet the Australian Actress Who Does the Most Amazing Accent on Television ''. The New Republic. Retrieved 25 April 2014. ^ Jump up to : Groves, Don ( 15 July 2013 ). `` Orange is the New Black for Yael Stone ''. IF Magazine. Retrieved 25 April 2014. Jump up ^ Richards, Holly ( 6 November 2013 ). `` Breakout role for Aussie Yael Stone ''. The West Australian. Retrieved 25 April 2014. Jump up ^ Andreeva, Nellie ( 6 November 2013 ). `` Yael Stone Upped To Regular On ' Orange ', Jonathan Adams On ' Last Man Standing ' ''. Deadline.com. Retrieved 14 June 2014. Jump up ^ Stone, Yael ( July 6, 2017 ). `` For the record ; my marriage ended a year ago. An awkward but necessary clarification. I 've got amazing people by my side and ❤ ️ in my heart. ''. Twitter. Retrieved July 6, 2017. Jump up ^ http://www.thegloss.com/culture/yael-stone-childhoods-end-orange-is-the-new-black-interview/. Missing or empty title = ( help ) External links Yael Stone on IMDb Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series ( 2010 -- 2019 ) Modern Family, season 1 / season 2 ( 2010 ) : Bowen ; Burrell ; Ferguson ; Gould ; Hyland ; O'Neill ; Rodriguez ; Stonestreet ; Vergara ; Winter Modern Family, season 2 / season 3 ( 2011 ) : Anderson - Emmons ; Bowen ; Burrell ; Ferguson ; Gould ; Hyland ; O'Neill ; Rodriguez ; Stonestreet ; Vergara ; Winter Modern Family, season 3 / season 4 ( 2012 ) : Anderson - Emmons ; Bowen ; Burrell ; Ferguson ; Gould ; Hyland ; O'Neill ; Rodriguez ; Stonestreet ; Vergara ; Winter Modern Family, season 4 / season 5 ( 2013 ) : Anderson - Emmons ; Bowen ; Burrell ; Ferguson ; Gould ; Hyland ; O'Neill ; Rodriguez ; Stonestreet ; Vergara ; Winter Orange Is the New Black, season 2 ( 2014 ) : Aduba, Biggs, Brooks, Cox, Cruz, Curtin, DeLaria, Fowler, Freeman, Gardner, Glenn, Golden, Guerrero, Harney, Jeudy, Lake, Lapkus, Leyva, Lyonne, Manning, Marsh Garland, McGorry, Moore, Mulgrew, Myles, Pimentel, Polanco, Reiner, Roberts, Rodriguez, Rosenblat, Sandow, Savage, Schilling, Shulman, Soules, Stone, Toussaint, Tucci, Wiley Orange Is the New Black, season 3 ( 2015 ) : Aduba, Birbiglia, Blake, Brooks, Cox, Cruz, Curtin, DeLaria, Fowler, Glenn, Golden, Guerrero, Harney, Jeudy, Leyva, Manning, Marsh Garland, Moore, Mulgrew, Myles, Peters, Petty, Pimentel, Polanco, Prepon, Rodriguez, Rose, Sandow, Savage, Schilling, Shulman, Soules, Stone, Wiley Orange Is the New Black, season 4 ( 2016 ) : Aduba, Aisenberg, Brooks, Brown, Cruz, DeLaria, Dover, Glenn, Golden, Gómez, Guerrero, Harney, Henke, Jeudy, Lake, Leyva, Lyonne, Manning, McMenamin, Moore, Mulgrew, Myles, Peters, Petty, Pimentel, Polanco, Prepon, Purdy, Rodriguez, Sandow, Savage, Schilling, Shulman, Soules, Stone, Tucci, Wiley Complete list ( 1994 -- 1999 ) ( 2000 -- 2009 ) ( 2010 -- 2019 ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yael_Stone&oldid=807288357 '' Categories : Living people 1985 births Actresses from Sydney Australian atheists Australian stage actresses Australian television actresses National Institute of Dramatic Art alumni 20th - century Australian actresses 21st - century Australian actresses Australian film actresses Australian people of Czech - Jewish descent Australian people of Romanian descent Jewish Australian actresses Hidden categories : Pages with citations lacking titles Pages with citations having bare URLs Use dmy dates from June 2015 Use Australian English from June 2015 All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English Articles with hCards Date of birth missing ( living people ) Talk Contents About Wikipedia Bân - lâm - gú Čeština Deutsch Español Français 한국어 Italiano Nederlands Polski Português Русский Svenska Türkçe Українська Edit links This page was last edited on 27 October 2017, at 01 : 44. 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Question: who plays morello on orange is the new black
Answer: Yael Stone