Alysia Reiner

Biography

An American actress and producer. Reiner is best known for playing Natalie “Fig” Figueroa in the Netflix comedy drama series Orange Is the New Black, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as part of the ensemble cast.

She also works as a change maker for women, an advocate for women’s rights & climate change initiatives, and is an original member of TIMES UP, an ambassador for GDIM, and even started an eco-fashion initiative, Livari. 

She’s spoken at The White House, The United Nations, Google, Cannes Lion, Women’s Media Summit, Collision, and countless film festivals and other events about breaking barriers for women in all fields, specifically the entertainment industry, and was awarded the Persistence of Vision Award by the Women’s Media Summit, the Sarah Powell Leadership Award by the Women’s Prison Association, the MUSE Made In NY Award from The Mayors office & New York Women in Film and TV, the Moves Power Women Award, the Pioneer in Filmmaking Award, the Collaboration Award from the Coalition for Women in the Arts and Media.