New Jersey-native actress born March 7, 1980 in Watchung, New Jersey to a Jewish father and mother Irish Catholic descent.
She best known as Donna Pinciotti on That '70s Show and That '90s Show and Alex Vause in Orange Is the New Black. Other notable roles include:
- How I Met Your Mother - Karen
- October Road - Hannah
- Slackers - Reanna
- House - As POTW Frankie, in the episode "Private Lives."
- Are You There, Chelsea? - As Chelsea. The show only lasted one season.
- Castle - As Natalie Rhodes in the episode "Nikki Heat".
Prepon is married to actor Ben Foster, and they have a daughter. She also announced in October 2019 that she's expecting another baby. They had a boy in February 2020. Prepon became a Scientologist in 1999, like her That '70s Show co-star Danny Masterson, and dated his brother Christopher Masterson. In 2021 she revealed she'd left the church in 2016.
Related Tropes
- Career Resurrection: Orange Is the New Black. In fact, she is arguably now better known for Orange than she ever was for That '70s Show, with the latter show having become to her what Malcolm in the Middle is considered to Bryan Cranston.
- Dyeing for Your Art:
- She dyed her red hair blonde during the course of That 70s Show, in preparation for her role in Karla.
- Most recently, she dyed it black for Orange Is the New Black.
- Star-Making Role: That '70s Show.
- Statuesque Stunner :
- At 5'10", she is quite tall. On That '70s Show, this led to many comparisons to Jackie.
- Her height is also remarked on as a kind of Running Gag on Orange Is the New Black.
