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Yael Stone is an Australian actress. She has worked extensively in Australian theatre and has won two Sydney Theatre Awards. On screen, she is best known for her portrayal of Lorna Morello in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black.
Yael Stone is known for her roles as Lorna Morello in Orange Is the New Black and Dora Lumley in Picnic at Hanging Rock. She graduated from NIDA and co-founded The Cannery, a creative studio in Brooklyn.
- January 1, 1
- 1.52 m
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Yael Stone is an Australian actress who starred as Lorna Morello in Orange Is the New Black. She has also appeared in theatre, film and TV productions in Australia and the US, and is co-founder of The Cannery.
- March 6, 1985
- Yael Stone was born in Sydney, Australia to Jewish parents. She has described herself as an atheist, explaining, “I’m really proud of where I’ve come from and really proud of my family, but I don’t have a strict relationship with God or with religion … When I was 12, I was studying Hebrew and getting ready to do my bat mitzvah and I sat down with my dad and I said: ‘Hey listen, I don’t know if I’m really comfortable with this, because here I am talking about God and I don’t know if I feel it.’
- She started her professional life on the stage. In Sydney, she starred in play called A Golem Story, where Stone’s Jewish background helped her understand the legend of golem.
- Her father, Harry Stone, was born in Czechoslovakia, and is the son of Holocaust survivors. Stone explains, “He’s a first-generation child of Holocaust survivors, so he didn’t really get to indulge a lot of [his] creative instincts.”
- She caught a big break when she was cast as Lorna Morello in Orange is the New Black, which she has been a part of since 2013. Lorna’s memorable accent — a mixture of Brooklyn and Boston — was called “the most amazing accent on television.”
Mar 17, 2024 · Sydney-born actress Yael Stone moved back to Australia in 2019 after seven years in New York. She founded Hi Neighbour, a non-profit that trains coal and steel workers for jobs in renewable energy.
Yael Stone is known for her role as Lorna Morello in Orange Is the New Black and her stage work in Australia. She has also appeared in films and TV shows such as Childhood's End, Deep Water, and Picnic at Hanging Rock.
