Yael Stone

Yael Stone
File:Yael Stone at Paley Fest Orange Is The New Black.jpg Stone at PaleyFest 2014, representing Orange Is the New Black
Born	(1985-03-06) 6 March 1985 Sydney, Australia
Alma mater	National Institute of Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1999–present
Spouse(s)	Dan Spielman (m. 2012)

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 perhaps best known for her portrayal of Lorna Morello in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black.

Early life and education

Stone was born and raised in Sydney, the daughter of Judy, a nurse, and Harry Stone, an architect. Stone is Jewish and her father is from Czechoslovakia. Her brother, Jake Stone, is 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 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 lives in New York.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Me Myself I	Stacy
2007	West	Stacey
2011	Jailbirds	Lucy	Short film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	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

External links

• Yael Stone at the Internet Movie Database