Emily Tarver is an actress, comedian and musician from

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. Tarver has performed as a cast member of

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's series ''

Best Week Ever ''Best Week Ever'' is an American comedy series created and executive produced for VH1 by Fred Graver. The series, which first aired from January 23, 2004, to June 12, 2009, is a spin-off of the '' I Love the...'' series and was renamed ''Best ...

'' and has performed stand-up and improvisational comedy in a variety of venues, including the

Upright Citizens Brigade The Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) is an improvisational and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago's ImprovOlympic in 1990. The original incarnation of the group consisted of Amy Poehler, Matthew Walsh, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, ...

Theatre, The Stand and The Comedy Cellar. Emily portrayed CO McCullough in Seasons 4-7 of Netflix's Orange is the New Black and starred in Donny! on the USA Network. She has starred as "Emily" in a series of American television commercials for the furniture company

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, and has appeared in national commercials for

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, and

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, among others. One Yoplait commercial starring Tarver was pulled from broadcast following complaints by the National Eating Disorders Association. Tarver responded "So they pulled my yogurt ad because it 'promotes eating disorders'. Ironically, now I will not be able to afford to eat."

Personal life

In July 2018, it was confirmed that Tarver is in a relationship with her ''

Orange Is the New Black ''Orange Is the New Black'' (sometimes abbreviated to ''OITNB'') is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. The series is based on Piper Kerman's memoir '' Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Pr ...

'' co-star Vicci Martinez.

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