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Feb 12, 2024 · Piper Chapman is, however, based on a real person: Piper Kerman. Her 2010 book, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison is based on her own time in a real-life penitentiary. Certain elements of Kerman's story were tweaked for Orange Is the New Black during its seven seasons .
- Piper. Piper Chapman, the main character on the show, is similar to the real Piper in a lot of ways. She did go to prison, smuggle drug money for her girlfriend when she was 22, and befriend a cast of diverse female inmates while locked up at the Danbury Federal Correctional Institution.
- Alex. Piper's ex-girlfriend was called "Nora" in the book, but her real name is Cleary Wolters. It's true that she was part of an international drug smuggling gang, but she and Piper were never in prison together at the same time.
- Larry. On the show, Larry, Piper's fiancé, is a whiny, insecure cheater. Fortunately, the real Larry is completely different (and definitely not a loser).
- Red. Red, ruler of the kitchen, might've been a major adversary to Piper during the first season, but the real Red, who was called "Pop" in the book, was hardly as vengeful.
May 6, 2015 · Meet the Real-Life Alex Vause of 'Orange Is the New Black'. Cleary Wolters wants viewers of the Netflix series to know: The character is her, but she's not the villain in Piper's life. By Jeff...
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Aug 1, 2019 · The series is set in a fictional prison in Litchfield, New York, which is a real town in upstate New York, but it does not have a federal penitentiary. The series is instead filmed in an old Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center in Rockland County, New York.
Apr 15, 2014 · The tale of the real-life Kerman and Wolters begins in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1991. The pair became friends around the time the Boston-raised Kerman graduated from Smith College, but...
Oct 23, 2019 · Is Alex Vause based on a real person? Alex Vause is loosely based on the real ex-girlfriend of Piper Kerman, Catherine Cleary Wolters.
Jul 5, 2016 · Harper Collins recently released Out of Orange, a memoir by Cleary Wolters, Kerman’s one-time real-life girlfriend who is portrayed on the show as manipulative and cunning vixen Alex Vause...
