Biografia
Award-winning actress Alysia Reiner is best known as "Fig" on all seven seasons of Orange Is the New Black for which she won a SAG Award, and originating the role of Agent Sadie Deever in the much-anticipated, Emmy & Critics Choice Award-winning Disney+/Marvel TV series Ms. Marvel; she also joined the cast of The Diplomat in seasons 2 & 3. In recent years she completed 5 seasons as Sunny on the Peabody Award-winning Better Things (FX/Hulu), 2 seasons as Kiki on The Deuce (HBO), and 2 seasons as Kathryn in Shining Vale with Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear (HBO/Max). Her recent films include The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2025 Independent Spirit Awards nominee), leading Stampede Ventures’ feature Going Places (Cinequest), and Ramona at Midlife (BFF, Woodstock, Berlin Women, etc). Other memorable turns include getting married in the Oscar-winning Sideways, getting naked in an Emmy Award-winning episode of Broad City, and going head-to-head with Viola Davis in How to Get Away with Murder. Recent feature films include O Horizon with David Strathairn and Maria Bakalova, Our Bodies and Other Shames with Gideon Adlon and Michela Diamond, and Transcendent with comedian Cat Cohen and Helene Yorke. As a producer, Alysia produced and stars in the motherhood dark comedy EGG with Christina Hendricks and Anna Camp. It premiered at Tribeca film festival right before the pandemic, is 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Additionally, Alysia conceived of, developed, produced and starred in the feature film Equity, bought/distributed by Sony Pictures Classics at Sundance 2016, and she is currently developing a slate of next film and TV projects. Equity was Alysia's first feature as both actress and producer, but she has acted in countless critically acclaimed and award winning films and shows, working with film masters like "Sideways" director Alexander Payne, Jodie Foster, Richard Loncraine, Matt Weiner, and of course Jenji Kohan and Pamela Adlon. You may also know her from feature films like Sideways, 5 Flights Up, Kelly and Cal, Shine, Fort Tilden, Kissing Jessica Stein, or numerous other indie films and TV shows (yes you have seen her on all Law & Orders multiple times). A classically trained theater actor, Alysia has appeared on stages worldwide: from the Sundance Filmmakers Lab in Utah to London’s Royal Court Theatre; from a standing ovation at Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theatre to the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. In 2025 she starred in the world premiere of Keiko Green’s You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World. She also starred in the New York premiere of Pentecost by Tony Award-winning playwright David Edgar, and in Tim Crouch’s two-person An Oak Tree, which won Tim a Special Obie Award. Her portrayal of June Miller in Anaïs Nin: One of Her Lives and her role in Wasps in Bed were both critically acclaimed, with The New York Times praising, "Alysia Reiner is priceless." As a voice actress, Alysia voices Karen Wheeler in the animated Stranger Things series for Netflix. She completed two seasons as Ms. Marmalady on Nickelodeon’s Butterbean’s Café, has voiced numerous series, audio books, video games, NPR storytelling, scripted podcasts for Audible, and dozens of national commercial campaigns, including 34 spots for Campbell’s Soup’s award-winning brand change. Alysia is also a passionate change maker and advocate for women’s rights and climate action. She serves on the board and as an ambassador for the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, on the board of Earth Day Initiative, and on the advisory board of Air Protein. She is the face and zero-waste Eco-emissary for Izzy Beauty and co-founded the Eco-fashion zero-waste initiative Livari. She is also an ambassador for The Dandelion Project, Fossil Fuel Treaty, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Remake, and many others. Her family’s Harlem brownstone Eco-renovation was featured on television (World’s Greenest Homes, Renovation Nation), in publications including Dwell and Gotham, and chronicled on Dwell.com and Kohler.com. Her awards include the Acclaimed Collaborator Award from Women in Arts and Media, the MUSE "Made in NY" Award from the Mayor’s Office and NYWIFT, the Sarah Powell Huntington Leadership Award, the Voice of a Woman Award, the Pioneer in Filmmaking Award, and the Founders Award for Support. She has been invited to keynote and speak at The White House, the United Nations, Google, Cannes Lions, Milken Global Conference, Fortune Women’s Summit, Women’s Media Summit, The Wrap Summit, and countless film festivals and events worldwide. Additionally, Alysia is a volunteer firefighter (yes, really), foster mother, abortion escort, and singer with the Resistance Revival Chorus (joy as an act of resistance!). She serves on the SAG-AFTRA Blue Ribbon Sexual Harassment Committee, has been arrested for peacefully advocating for abortion rights, and writes a sex and pleasure column for FLOW magazine. She actively partners with organizations including Women’s Prison Association, A Second U, Bard Prison Initiative, Sanctuary Neighborhood, and This Is About Humanity. Her award-winning short film Speed Grieving, which she created, produced, and starred in, premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival, went on to screen at dozens of festivals worldwide, and is now used as a grief counseling tool at every Cancer Support Community center in the country. 5/15/26
