Julie Lake is an American actress, best known for playing inmate Angie Rice on ''
Orange is the New Black'', for which she is a two-time winner of the
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
Early life and education
While Lake was in Grad School, she dated a fellow actor named Robert Stephan. A native of
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto (; Spanish for "tall stick") is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.
The city was es ...
, Lake attended
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
, where she majored in theater.
Career
Lake acted in theatrical plays in
New York City
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for several years, including with Nick Jones.
[Wood, James.]
Actress Julie Lake Talks New Season of 'Orange is the New Black', Other Projects
. '' Allentown Examiner''. June 6, 2015. When Jones was hired to be a writer for ''
Orange is the New Black'', Jones suggested that Lake audition for the part of Angie Rice.
[ Lake auditioned, and she got the part.][
Lake and Shirin Najafi created a web series called ''George and Julie'', which is about a struggling actress in Hollywood who seeks advice from her cat George who degrades her.][ Lake and Najafi also created a web series called ''Mental'', which is about two friends and their anxiety and mental instability.][Wood, James.]
'Mental': Julie Lake and Shirin Najafi Discuss Their Comedic New Web Series
. ''Allentown Examiner''. March 26, 2016.
Personal life
Lake is married to Jeff Cahn and on 2019 she gave birth to a son. When she was asked to do a make-out scene on ''Orange Is the New Black'', the producers asked her if she had someone in mind for the part, and her husband was brought in for the role.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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American television actresses
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Actresses from Palo Alto, California
Yale University alumni
21st-century American women
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