Annie Golden

Annie Golden (born October 19, 1951)[1] is an American actress and singer. She is best known for portraying mute Norma Romano in Orange Is the New Blacksince 2013.
==Early life==
Golden was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York.[1] She sang in school and church choirs as a child. Her father died at age 52 and her mother died in 1974, at the age of 42. Golden on her family: "My mom never saw me do anything." She said that "she had no training."[2] When she met Art LaMonica in 1971, he invited her to join his group called Lackeys & Schemers.[3]
==Career==
=== Music ===
Golden began her career as the lead singer of The Shirts (which headlined CBGB's in the late 70s).[4] During the early 1990s she performed as part of the duo Golden Carillo with Frank Carillo. They released three albums, Fire in Newtown, Toxic Emotion, and Back for More.[5] She returned to The Shirts, but she has also performed solo and with a band. In 1984, her song "Hang Up the Phone" was featured on the soundtrack of the film Sixteen Candles.[6] She performs a revue of songs from her stage career along with originals called Annie Golden's Velvet Prison.[7]
=== Film and TV ===
While with The Shirts, Golden was discovered by Miloš Forman, who gave her a part in Hair.[4] She had featured roles on the television series Cheers and Miami Vice. Golden was the voice of Marina in the Don Bluth animated feature film The Pebble and the Penguin. She played a taxi driver in Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys(1995), wherein she had a scene with Bruce Willis and Madeline Stowe.
In recent years, she has been seen in commercials for Coinstar, in which she portrays The Tooth Fairy. She appears in the musical film Temptation with actor Adam Pascal, Tony Award winners Alice Ripley and Anika Noni Rose, and film actress Zoe Saldana and in 2009 had a small role in I Love You Phillip Morriswith actors Ewan McGregor and Jim Carrey, playing a simple woman requiring legal assistance.[6]
In 2013, she began playing the role of the nearly mute Norma Romano in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black, for which she won a 2015 Screen Actors Guild Award (along with the rest of the ensemble cast).[2][6]
=== Stage ===
On Broadway, she has appeared in the 1977 revival of Hair, Leader of the Pack(1985), Ah, Wilderness! (1988), On the Town (1998), and The Full Monty (2000). She had the title role in the workshop of the short-lived adaptation of Stephen King's novel Carrie. She also played the role of Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme in Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical Assassins during its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in New York City in 1990–1991, and is featured on the cast recording of it, on the RCA label.[8] In 2003 she joined other original Off-Broadway cast members in a Reprise! (Los Angeles) concert production of Assassins.[9] In 2007, she was stand-by for the two comic villain roles in the musical Xanadu on Broadway.[1]
She played Lucy Schmeeler, the whiny friend with the chronic cold, in the Off-Broadway Public Theater production at the Delacorte Theater of On the Town in August 1997. She also appeared in the lab production of the musical Hit The Lights! in 1993 at the Vineyard Theatre.[10]
Golden has appeared in three separate versions of Hair: a Broadway revival in 1977, the motion picture in 1979 and a special benefit performance concert in 2004. Golden starred with Peter Scolari in the world premiere of The Nutcracker and I from November 29, 2011 to December 31, 2011 at the George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Comically playing the Sugar Rush Fairy (and three other roles) in this musical comedy featuring the music of Tchaikovsky and lyrics by Gerard Alessandrini, she and Scolari were compared in one review to the team of Imogene Coca and Sid Caesar.[11]
Golden appeared in the musical Violet starring Sutton Foster on Broadway in 2014.[12]
Since 2005, Golden has frequently appeared in stage concerts for composer Joe Iconis. She stars in the Barrington Stage Company production of his Broadway Bounty Hunter,[13] with the book by Iconis, Lance Rubin and Jason "Sweettooth" Williams, directed by Julianne Boyd, which opened on August 13, 2016.[14][15] This role was written by Iconis for Golden; he said of Golden: “ 'She’s essentially playing a fictionalized version of herself, so she’s been so helpful... Her personality has imbued the whole spirit of the show.' ”[16] The Varietyreviewer wrote: "Golden does woebegone really well....Surprisingly, however, the show underserves its star... except for a rousing, climactic paean to “the blood… back in my veins,” the material isn’t there... There’s only limited chance to see her take full command of stage and story."[17] The Boston Globe called the musical "rowdy, funny, cheerfully cockeyed."[18] A concert version of Broadway Bounty Hunter, starring Golden, was presented at Joe's Pub in New York City on September 26, 2016.[19]
== Filmography ==
Year 	Title 	Role 	Director 	Notes
1979 	Hair 	Jeannie Ryan 	Miloš Forman 	
1985 	Desperately Seeking Susan 	Band Singer 	Susan Seidelman 	
1985 	Key Exchange 	Val 	Barnet Kellman 	
1985 	Streetwalkin' 	Phoebe 	Joan Freeman 	
1985 	Hometown 	 	Kim Friedman 	TV series (1 episode)
1985–86 	Miami Vice 	Tommy 	Paul Michael Glaser, Craig Bolotin & John Nicolella	TV series (3 episodes)
1986 	Class of '86 	 	Jerry Adler 	
1986 	American Playhouse 	Caroline 	Luis Soto 	TV series (1 episode)
1986 	Down to Earth 	Starr Gardner 	Russ Petranto 	TV series (1 episode)
1987 	Forever, Lulu 	Diana 	Amos Kollek 	
1987 	Love at Stake 	Abigail Baxter 	John Moffitt 	
1987 	Baby Boom 	Nanny 	Charles Shyer 	
1989 	Longtime Companion 	Heroin Addict 	Norman René 	
1989 	Dear John 	Sylvia 	John Rich 	TV series (1 episode)
1989 	True Blue 	Connie Tollin 	William A. Graham & George Mendeluk 	TV series (2 episodes)
1989–92 	Cheers 	Margaret O'Keefe 	James Burrows 	TV series (4 episodes)
1990 	Father Dowling Mysteries 	Florence Galthworthy 	Ron Satlof 	TV series (1 episode)
1991 	Strictly Business 	Sheila 	Kevin Hooks 	
1992 	This Is My Life 	Marianne 	Nora Ephron 	
1992 	Prelude to a Kiss 	Tin Market Musician 	Norman René (2) 	
1995 	The Pebble and the Penguin 	Marina 	Don Bluth & Gary Goldman 	
1995 	12 Monkeys 	Woman Cabbie 	Terry Gilliam 	
1996 	One Way Out 	Eve 	Kevin Lynn 	
1997 	Arresting Gena 	Sally 	Hannah Weyer 	
1997 	My Divorce 	The middle sister 	Andrea Clark 	
1998 	Barriers 	Phil 	Alan Baxter 	
1999 	Law & Order 	Frances Padden 	Constantine Makris 	TV series (1 episode)
1999 	Third Watch 	Amber Gastin 	Christopher Chulack 	TV series (1 episode)
2001 	The American Astronaut 	Cloris 	Cory McAbee 	
2001 	Mourning Glory 	Mediator 	Barrett Esposito 	
2001 	Third Watch 	Crazy Woman 	Jesús Salvador Treviño 	TV series (1 Episode)
2002 	Delayed 	Sarah 	Charles Ricciardi 	
2003 	It Runs in the Family 	Deb 	Fred Schepisi 	
2003 	Trouble in Paradise 	Dolores 	Dave Coleman 	Short
2004 	Messengers 	Alice Farmer 	Philip Farha 	
2004 	Temptation 	Nora 	Mark Tarlov 	
2005 	Tom and Francie 	Francie 	Patrick Michael Denny 	
2005 	Live at Five 	Annie 	Averie Storck 	Short
2006 	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Varla 	Arthur W. Forney 	TV series (1 episode)
2007 	Brooklyn Rules 	Dottie 	Michael Corrente 	
2007 	Sexina: Popstar P.I. 	Vera's Mom 	Erik Sharkey 	
2008 	Adventures of Power 	Farrah 	Ari Gold 	
2009 	I Love You Phillip Morris 	Eudora Mixon 	Glenn Ficarra & John Requa 	
2009–10 	Wiener & Wiener 	Deena 	Dante Russo 	TV series (4 episodes)
2012 	The Trouble with Cali 	Mrs. Katie Saperstein	Paul Sorvino 	
2012 	NYC 22 	Unmarried Woman 	Martha Mitchell 	TV series (1 episode)
2013–2017	Orange Is the New Black 	Norma Romano 	Several 	TV series (31 episodes)
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
2015 	American Songbook at NJPAC 	 	David Stern 	TV series
2016 	Miles 	Rhonda Roth 	Nathan Adloff 	
2017 	Different People 	Flipper 	Jeffrey Walker 	TV series
2018 	One Dollar 	 	Craig Zobel 	TV series
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