Biography
Lea DeLaria is an American comedian, actress, and jazz singer. She portrayed Carrie "Big Boo" Black on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019) and Psychic Madame Delphina on the ABC daytime drama One Life to Live from 1999 to 2011. She also starred in the Broadway productions POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive in 2022 and the 2000 revival of The Rocky Horror Show. In 2006, she played the role of Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, gaining good reviews. She was the first openly gay comic to appear on American television in a 1993 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show.
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Awards & recognition
- Theatre World Award · 1998
Filmography34 titles
Bottomless Brunch at Colman's
Friends
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
Shameless
Clarence
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Orange Is the New Black
The Blacklist
Californication
The Oblongs
Awkward.
Ahead of the Curve
East New York
Broad City
Reprisal
Matlock
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
Cars 3
Will & Grace
Tow
The First Wives Club
Edge of Seventeen
The Drew Carey Show
Potato Dreams of America
Queer for Fear: The History of Queer Horror
Support the Girls
Great Performances
Girls5eva
Saved by the Bell: The New Class
Chelsea
Bear with Us
Ass Backwards
Glitter & Doom
Outerlands