Dale Soules is an American actress known for starring in The Messenger and portraying Frieda Berlin in Orange Is the New Black from 2014 to 2019.
Early life Soules grew up in the Greenwood Lake section of West Milford, New Jersey. She attended West Milford High School. While in high school, Soules became interested in acting and began acting in Summer stock theater, singing in church choirs and started studying acting at HB Studio.
Career Soules moved to New York in the mid-1960s after high school to pursue an acting career, and initially worked behind the scenes in theater in a variety of positions. Her big break came in 1968 when she landed her first Broadway role, the part of Jeanie in the original Broadway production of Hair.
She continued to appear in a number of theater productions including four years in the play The Magic Show, Hands on a Hard Body, Grey Gardens, and The Crucible.
Soules joined Orange Is the New Black during its second season in the recurring role of Frieda Berlin. Starting with the show's sixth season, Soules was promoted to a series regular.
Personal life Soules is openly lesbian.
Filmography
Film YearTitleRoleNotes1971PrismEva1988Blood Orgy of the Leather GirlsTeacher1997Love GodConnie2006DiggersSilly Lilly Waitress2009The MessengerCashier2009MotherhoodHester2012Watching TV with the Red ChineseBag Lady2016AWOLRuthie2017AardvarkLucille2018The Miseducation of Cameron PostGrandma2022LightyearDarby Steel (voice)2022Midday Black Midnight BlueKath2022My Love Affair with MarriageOfficial (voice)2023She Came to MeAunt Moxie
Television YearTitleRoleNotes1975Really RosieNutshell Kid (voice)Television special1981American PlayhouseFrancesEpisode: "Until She Talks"2005Law & Order: Criminal IntentMystyEpisode: "Stress Connection"2005Law & OrderAgatha JacobsEpisode: "Red Ball"2007American MastersMrs. WainwrightEpisode: "Novel Reflections: The American Dream"2010How to Make It in AmericaDorisEpisode: "Paper, Denim + Dollars"2010Big LakeShelleyEpisode: "Chris Moves In"2013UnforgettableAlma DelaneyEpisode: "Line Up or Shut Up"2014–2019Orange Is the New BlackFrieda Berlin51 episodes2017At Home with Amy SedarisDelta MungEpisode: "Making Love"2019New AmsterdamAllison MedranoEpisode: "The Blues"2019The Marvelous Mrs. MaiselMargaretEpisodes: "Hands!"2021InvasionMotel ReceptionistEpisode: "Orion"2023–presentDigman!Agatha (voice)Main cast2024–2025Star Wars: Skeleton CrewChaelt4 episodes Stage Year Title Role Notes 1968 Hair Jeanie (Replacement) Blitmore Theatre, Broadway 1972 Dude Shadow Broadway Theatre, Broadway 1973 Lotta Lotta Public Theater, Off-Broadway 1974 More Than You Deserve Vietnamese Public Theater, Off-Broadway 1974 The Magic Show Cal Cort Theatre, Broadway 1979 Getting Out Arlene Theater de Lys, Off-Broadway 1997 The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite Patsy/Older Woman/ Waitress Atlantic Theater Company, Off-Broadway 2002 The Crucible Sarah Good Virginia Theatre, Broadway 2006 Grey Gardens Edith Bouvier Beale (Standby) Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway 2012 Rutherford & Son Mrs. Henderson Mint Theater Company 2015 Posterity Greta Atlantic Theater Company, Off-Broadway 2014 I Remember Mama Papa Transport Group, Off-Broadway 2015 Shows for Days Sid Lincoln Center Theater, Off-Broadway 2017 The Mother of Invention Jane Abingdon Theatre Company, Off-Broadway 2018 Woman and Scarecrow Aunty Ah Irish Repertory Theatre, Off-Broadway 2022 The Lucky Star Arnold 59E59 Theatre, Off-Broadway 2024 The Welkin Sarah Smith Atlantic Theater Company, Off-Broadway
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