Donna Rosewood is on the cusp of some major life changes that will affect her children profoundly.
Mother to Rosey and Pippy, Donna is a proud matriarch with a lot of strong opinions. She holds family gatherings sacred and makes Rosewood?s love life a regular topic of conversation.
Lorraine Toussaint Profile
For her role as the viciously seductive inmate Vee on the second season of Orange Is the New Black, Lorraine Toussaint won the SAG Award and Critics? Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Toussaint also received praise both for her performance in the Academy Award®-nominated feature film Selma, and her starring role on the fantasy-drama series Forever.
Born in Trinidad and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Toussaint studied theater at New York?s renowned High School of Performing Arts. She then enrolled in The Juilliard School?s drama division, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. On her graduation day, she landed her first paying job as Lady Macbeth with the Lenox, Massachusetts-based Shakespeare & Company.
Toussaint spent the first 12 years of her career acting on stage in New York City before moving to Los Angeles. Her first television appearance was in the 1983 telefilm The Face of Rage. Perhaps most notably, she co-starred opposite Annie Potts in the TV series Any Day Now, which earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination, a TV Guide Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series and the Wiley A. Branton Award from the National Bar Association.
Additional TV credits include recurring roles on Friday Night Lights, Saving Grace, Law & Order and Ugly Betty. She also has made guest-starring appearances on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Grey?s Anatomy and Scandal.
Toussaint?s first film role was opposite Burt Reynolds in the crime comedy Breaking In. She also appeared in Dangerous Minds, The Soloist and Middle of Nowhere, for which her performance earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female.
She can be seen in the Seth Rogen comedy X-Mas. She also stars in the period drama Sophie and the Rising Sun, written and directed by Maggie Greenwald.