--- title: See Roles You Didn't Realize Orange Is the New Black Stars Played description: Season 3 of Orange Is the New Black premieres on Netflix in June, take a look at some other roles the show's stars have played canonical: https://time.com/3918368/orange-is-the-new-black-stars/ author: TIME Photo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-12T16:20:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:05.575Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Roles You Didn't Realize "Orange Is the New Black Stars" Played og:description: Piper Chapman in a Nicholas Sparks movie. For real og:url: https://time.com/3918368/orange-is-the-new-black-stars/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b7ea1bf9e09ab5f/6988542c06f2c1863733a9b0/oitnb-roles-02.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: oitnb-roles-02 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Roles You Didn't Realize "Orange Is the New Black Stars" Played twitter:description: Piper Chapman in a Nicholas Sparks movie. For real twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b7ea1bf9e09ab5f/6988542c06f2c1863733a9b0/oitnb-roles-02.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # See Roles You Didn't Realize _Orange Is the New Black_ Stars Also Played by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Jun 12, 2015 4:20 PM UTC  Before Kate Mulgrew played Galina "Red" Reznikov on Orange Is the New Black she starred as Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager. Before Kate Mulgrew played Galina "Red" Reznikov on Orange Is the New Black she starred as Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager.Netflix; CBS/Getty Images by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Jun 12, 2015 4:20 PM UTC  Before Taylor Schilling played Piper Chapman on Orange Is the New Black she starred as Beth Green in The Lucky One. Netflix; Warner Bros.  Before Kate Mulgrew played Galina "Red" Reznikov on Orange Is the New Black she starred as Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager. Netflix; CBS/Getty Images  Before Yael Stone played Lorna Morello on Orange Is the New Black she played Stacy Dickson on Me Myself I . Netflix; Sony Pictures Classics/Everett  Before Natasha Lyonne played Nicky Nichols on Orange Is the New Black she played Jessica on American Pie. Netflix; Universal  Elizabeth Rodriguez plays Aleida Diaz on Orange Is the New Black and she has also guest starred as Special Agent Chavez on Grimm. Netflix; NBC  Before Laura Prepon played Alex Vause on Orange Is the New Black she guest starred as Natalie Rhodes on Castle. Netflix; ABC/Getty Images ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3918368/orange-is-the-new-black-stars/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3918368/orange-is-the-new-black-stars/"},"headline":"See Roles You Didn't Realize Orange Is the New Black Stars Also Played","datePublished":"2015-06-12T16:20:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:03:05.575Z","description":"Piper Chapman in a Nicholas Sparks movie. For real","url":"https://time.com/3918368/orange-is-the-new-black-stars/","keywords":["Television","Netflix","photography","Star Trek","Orange Is the New Black"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b7ea1bf9e09ab5f/6988542c06f2c1863733a9b0/oitnb-roles-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Photo","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-photo/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6b7ea1bf9e09ab5f/6988542c06f2c1863733a9b0/oitnb-roles-02.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"oitnb-roles-02","caption":"Before Kate Mulgrew played Galina \"Red\" Reznikov on Orange Is the New Black she starred as Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager.","creditText":"Netflix; CBS/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3918368/orange-is-the-new-black-stars/","name":"See Roles You Didn't Realize Orange Is the New Black Stars Also Played"}}]}] ```