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Laura Prepon
Prepon in 2014
Born
(1980-03-07) March 7, 1980 (age 37)
Watchung, New Jersey, U.S.
Residence
New York
Occupation
Actress, director, author
Years active
1997–present
Partner(s)
Ben Foster
Children
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Laura Prepon (born March 7, 1980) is an American actress, director, and author. She is best known for her role as Donna Pinciotti in all eight seasons of the Fox sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006), and for her portrayal of Alex Vause in the Netflix original comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–present). Prepon has worked mainly in television. She made her film debut in 2001 with the independent film Southlander. Her other films include the romantic drama Come Early Morning (2006), the comedy Lay the Favorite (2012), the thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), and the drama The Hero (2017).
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1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 1995–2005
2.2 2005–2010
2.3 2011–present
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
4.1 Film
4.2 Television
5 Awards and nominations
6 References
7 External links
Early life[edit]
Prepon was born on March 7, 1980, in Watchung, New Jersey,[1] the youngest of five children, to Marjorie (née Coll), a high school teacher, and Michael Prepon, an orthopedic surgeon.[1] She is of Russian Jewish and Irish Catholic descent.[2] Her maternal great-great-great-grandfather was Union Army General Joseph Bradford Carr.[3] Prepon's father died during heart surgery in 1993 at age 49;[4] she was 13 years old at the time. She attended Watchung Hills Regional High School, and later studied at the Total Theatre Lab in New York City.[1]
Career[edit]
1995–2005[edit]
Prepon appeared in plays such as A Woman of Property and Ascension Day while in New York.[1] In 1996, she studied drama with acting teacher Caroline Thomas at Thomas' Total Theatre Lab.[5] Later, in September 1997, she premiered on a Levi Strauss-developed show called They Go On, an Internet-based soap opera.[6] Prepon had also worked as a model and has done photo shoots in Paris, Milan, and Brazil.[1]
Prepon starred as Donna Pinciotti on the Fox sitcom That '70s Show from 1998 to 2006. Donna became the girlfriend and next-door neighbor of Eric Forman (Topher Grace). Randy Pearson (Josh Meyers), who was introduced in the eighth and final season of the series, became Donna's third love interest after Grace left the series.
Prepon co-starred in the romantic comedy Slackers, which is about three best friends who try to scam their way through college and eventually get caught.[7] She was nominated for a Teen Choice Award in 2002 for her role in That '70s Show.[8] In 2001, she made her film debut in Steve Hanft's musical comedy-drama Southlander with Beck, Beth Orton and Hank Williams III, where she played Seven=Five, a young TV telepathic. In 2004, Prepon worked on the independent drama film The Pornographer: A Love Story. The film tells the story of an obsessive relationship between a director and an actress.
Prepon was named one of Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" in 2002 and one of Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" in 2005.[9] Prepon had a cameo voice appearance as a United Nations Space Command marine in Halo 2, which was released in 2004.[citation needed] Her first notable film role came in 2004 with the dark drama Lightning Bug with Bret Harrison, Kevin Gage and Ashley Laurence. Branching into other arenas than acting, Prepon also served as executive producer of the film.[citation needed] She also appeared on an episode of MTV's Cribs in 2003.[10]
2005–2010[edit]
Prepon in 2008
In 2005, Prepon co-starred with Misha Collins in the psychological thriller Karla, based on the true story of Paul Bernardo and his wife Karla Homolka, a Canadian couple who kidnapped, sexually abused, and murdered three girls, marking a contrast to her usual lighthearted roles.[11] She was also an executive producer of E! Hollywood Hold'em the same year.[12] Prepon co-starred with Bryan Greenberg as Hannah Daniels in the ABC drama October Road, which debuted March 15, 2007. The show was canceled by ABC on May 12, 2008, despite strong ratings and a grassroots campaign from the show's fanbase to keep the show alive. In April 2007, she starred in a dramatic short film Once Upon a Time. She also appeared in the 2005 Oxygen original romantic comedy Romancing the Bride. She also was the original voice for Hayley Smith on the Fox animated sitcom American Dad! and voiced her in an unaired pilot.[citation needed] She appeared as Lauren, the long-lost sister of Mary Shannon (Mary McCormack) in the USA Network mystery drama In Plain Sight in the episode "A Frond in Need".[13] On February 5, 2010, it was announced that Prepon signed on to star in Awkward Situations for Men, a pilot on ABC.[14] In 2009, Prepon appeared in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother as Karen, one of the girlfriends of Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), in the episode "Sorry, Bro". She reprised her role in the episodes "The Front Porch" in 2009 and "Say Cheese" in 2010. She also appeared in the Fox medical drama House M.D. in the episode "Private Lives".[citation needed]
Prepon had been taking directing classes at the Art Center College of Design. She directed a short film, Abide with Me, about a 10-year-old boy who, "upon bearing witness to his father's murder, is rendered mute." Prepon stated she plans on making Abide with Me into a feature film.[15]
2011–present[edit]
In early 2011, Prepon guest-starred in an episode of the ABC police procedural drama Castle as an actress studying for the role of Nikki Heat, a character created by Nathan Fillion's title character.[16] Prepon had been working on a web series, Neighbros, which she directed and edited, starring her then-boyfriend Scott Michael Foster. They had sold the series to Comedy Central.[17][18] In February 2011, she was cast as the title character Chelsea Newman on the NBC sitcom Are You There, Chelsea?, based on Chelsea Handler's 2008 book Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea.[19] NBC cancelled the show on May 11, 2012. She guest-starred in the TBS sitcom Men at Work.[20] In mid-2012, Prepon signed on to play Alex Vause, a former drug importer and girlfriend of Piper Chapman, in the Netflix original comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black, based on Piper Kerman's memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. The series premiered in July 2013.[21] Prepon was a regular in the first season, but appeared in only four of the 13 episodes in the second season. She returned as a series regular in the third season.[22]
In 2016, Prepon and nutritionist Elizabeth Troy co-wrote The Stash Plan, a wellness book that draws on Prepon's experiences eating organic foods since she was a child, and her struggles with weight, low energy, and digestive issues.[23][24][25] The book debuted at #10 under "Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous" on The New York Times Best Seller list.[26]
In 2016, Prepon appeared in the psychological thriller The Girl on the Train, based on Paula Hawkins' novel of the same name.[27] In 2017, she played Charlotte opposite Sam Elliott in The Hero.[28] Prepon directed the tenth episode of Orange Is the New Black's fifth season, titled "The Reverse Midas Touch".[29]
Personal life[edit]
Prepon dated Scott Michael Foster for a time, but said in 2013 they had broken up.[30][18] In June 2017, a pregnant Prepon confirmed on Live with Kelly and Ryan that she and her fiancé, actor Ben Foster, were expecting a girl.[31] Prepon commented on being a working mother in September 2017.[32][33] Prepon and Foster live in New York.[34]
Prepon is a Scientologist.[35]
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2001 Southlander Seven Equals Five
2002 Slackers Reanna Cass
2004 Lightning Bug Angevin Duvet Also executive producer
2004 The Pornographer: A Love Story[36]
2006 Karla Karla Homolka
2006 Come Early Morning Kim
2007 Once Upon a Time[citation needed] The Witch Short film
2007 Chosen One, TheThe Chosen One Rachel Cruz (voice)
2012 Lay the Favorite Holly
2012 Kitchen, TheThe Kitchen Jennifer
2016 The Girl on the Train Cathy
2017 The Hero Charlotte Dylan
Television[edit]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1998–2006 That '70s Show Donna Pinciotti Main role; 200 episodes
2004 King of the Hill April (voice) Episode: "Talking Shop"
2005 American Dad! Hayley Smith (voice) Unaired pilot
2005 Romancing the Bride Melissa Television film
2007–2008 October Road Hannah Jane Daniels Main role; 19 episodes
2009–2010 How I Met Your Mother Karen Guest role; 3 episodes
2009 In Plain Sight Lauren Hefferman Episode: "A Frond in Need"
2010 Medium Kira Hudack Episode: "How to Beat a Bad Guy"
2010 House Frankie Episode: "Private Lives"
2010 Celebrity Ghost Stories Herself Episode #2.9
2011 Castle Natalie Rhodes/Nikki Heat Episode: "Nikki Heat"
2011 Love Bites Alex Episode: "Keep on Truckin'"
2011 Killing Game, TheThe Killing Game Eve Duncan Television film
2011 Neighbros L Boogie web series; director and editor
2012 Are You There, Chelsea? Chelsea Newman Main role; 12 episodes
2012 Men at Work Hannah Episode: "Plan B"
2013–present Orange Is the New Black Alex Vause Main role (season 1, 3–present), Recurring role (season 2), 56 episodes; Directed season 5 episode 10, "The Reverse Midas Touch"
Awards and nominations[edit]
Year
Organization
Category
Work
Result
Ref
1999 Young Artist Award Best Performance in a TV Series - Young Ensemble That 70's Show Nominated [37]
Teen Choice Awards TV - Breakout Performance That 70's Show Nominated
2002 Teen Choice Awards TV - Choice Actress, Comedy That 70's Show Nominated [38]
2014 Satellite Awards Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film Orange Is the New Black Won [39]
Best Cast – Television Series Won
2016 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Won [40]
2017 Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Won [41]
The Creative Coalition Spotlight Initiative Awards — Won [42][43]
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Ellen Barkin (1997)
Rita Wilson (1998)
Julia Ormond (2001)
Helen Mirren (2002)
Justine Bateman (2003)
Anjelica Huston (2004)
Lisa Edelstein (2005)
Julie Benz (2006)
Vanessa Williams (2007)
Fionnula Flanagan (2008)
Jane Lynch (2009)
Brenda Vaccaro (2010)
Vanessa Williams (2011)
Maggie Smith (2012)
Laura Prepon (2013)
Sarah Paulson (2014)
Rhea Seehorn (2015)
Olivia Colman / Rhea Seehorn (2016)
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Satellite Award for Best Cast – Television Series
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The West Wing
Alan Alda
Stockard Channing
Kristin Chenoweth
Dulé Hill
Allison Janney
Moira Kelly
Rob Lowe
Joshua Malina
Mary McCormack
Janel Moloney
Richard Schiff
Martin Sheen
Jimmy Smits
John Spencer
Bradley Whitford
2001
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Amber Benson
Marc Blucas
David Boreanaz
Nicholas Brendon
Charisma Carpenter
Emma Caulfield
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Seth Green
Alyson Hannigan
Anthony Stewart Head
James Marsters
Michelle Trachtenberg
2005
Rescue Me
Denis Leary
John Scurti
Daniel Sunjata
Mike Lombardi
Steven Pasquale
Andrea Roth
Callie Thorne
Adam Ferrara
Larenz Tate
James McCaffrey
Dean Winters
2006
Grey's Anatomy
Justin Chambers
Eric Dane
Patrick Dempsey
Katherine Heigl
T. R. Knight
Sandra Oh
James Pickens Jr.
Ellen Pompeo
Sara Ramirez
Kate Walsh
Isaiah Washington
Chandra Wilson
2007
Mad Men
Bryan Batt
Anne Dudek
Michael Gladis
Jon Hamm
Christina Hendricks
January Jones
Vincent Kartheiser
Robert Morse
Elisabeth Moss
Kiernan Shipka
Maggie Siff
John Slattery
Rich Sommer
Aaron Staton
2009
True Blood
Chris Bauer
Mehcad Brooks
Anna Camp
Nelsan Ellis
Michelle Forbes
Mariana Klaveno
Ryan Kwanten
Todd Lowe
Michael McMillian
Stephen Moyer
Anna Paquin
Jim Parrack
Carrie Preston
William Sanderson
Alexander Skarsgård
Sam Trammell
Rutina Wesley
Deborah Ann Woll
2012
The Walking Dead
Andrew Lincoln
Sarah Wayne Callies
Laurie Holden
Norman Reedus
Steven Yeun
Lauren Cohan
Chandler Riggs
Melissa McBride
Scott Wilson
Danai Gurira
Michael Rooker
David Morrissey
2013
Orange Is the New Black
Taylor Schilling
Laura Prepon
Michael J. Harney
Michelle Hurst
Kate Mulgrew
Jason Biggs
2014
The Knick
Clive Owen
André Holland
Jeremy Bobb
Juliet Rylance
Eve Hewson
Michael Angarano
Chris Sullivan
Cara Seymour
Eric Johnson
David Fierro
Maya Kazan
Leon Addison Brown
Grainger Hines
Matt Frewer
2015
American Crime
Felicity Huffman
Timothy Hutton
W. Earl Brown
Richard Cabral
Regina King
Caitlin Gerard
Benito Martinez
Penelope Ann Miller
Elvis Nolasco
Johnny Ortiz
2016
Outlander
Caitriona Balfe
Sam Heughan
Tobias Menzies
Lotte Verbeek
Laura Donnelly
Steven Cree
Duncan Lacroix
Grant O'Rourke
Gary Lewis
Graham McTavish
Stephen Walters
Simon Callow
Nell Hudson
Dominique Pinon
Stanley Weber
Richard Rankin
Sophie Skelton
Andrew Gower
Rosie Day
Clive Russell
Frances de la Tour
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Modern Family, season 1/season 2 (2010): Bowen, Burrell, Ferguson, Gould, Hyland, O'Neill, Rodriguez, Stonestreet, Vergara, Winter
Modern Family, season 2/season 3 (2011): Anderson-Emmons, Bowen, Burrell, Ferguson, Gould, Hyland, O'Neill, Rodriguez, Stonestreet, Vergara, Winter
Modern Family, season 3/season 4 (2012): Anderson-Emmons, Bowen, Burrell, Ferguson, Gould, Hyland, O'Neill, Rodriguez, Stonestreet, Vergara, Winter
Modern Family, season 4/season 5 (2013): Anderson-Emmons, Bowen, Burrell, Ferguson, Gould, Hyland, O'Neill, Rodriguez, Stonestreet, Vergara, Winter
Orange Is the New Black, season 2 (2014): Aduba, Biggs, Brooks, Cox, Cruz, Curtin, DeLaria, Fowler, Freeman, Gardner, Glenn, Golden, Guerrero, Harney, Jeudy, Lake, Lapkus, Leyva, Lyonne, Manning, Marsh Garland, McGorry, Moore, Mulgrew, Myles, Pimentel, Polanco, Reiner, Roberts, Rodriguez, Rosenblat, Sandow, Savage, Schilling, Shulman, Soules, Stone, Toussaint, Tucci, Wiley
Orange Is the New Black, season 3 (2015): Aduba, Birbiglia, Blake, Brooks, Cox, Cruz, Curtin, DeLaria, Fowler, Glenn, Golden, Guerrero, Harney, Jeudy, Leyva, Manning, Marsh Garland, Moore, Mulgrew, Myles, Peters, Petty, Pimentel, Polanco, Prepon, Rodriguez, Rose, Sandow, Savage, Schilling, Shulman, Soules, Stone, Wiley
Orange Is the New Black, season 4 (2016): Aduba, Aisenberg, Brooks, Brown, Cruz, DeLaria, Dover, Glenn, Golden, Gómez, Guerrero, Harney, Henke, Jeudy, Lake, Leyva, Lyonne, Manning, McMenamin, Moore, Mulgrew, Myles, Peters, Petty, Pimentel, Polanco, Prepon, Purdy, Rodriguez, Sandow, Savage, Schilling, Shulman, Soules, Stone, Tucci, Wiley
Veep, season 6 (2017): Bakkedahl, Chlumsky, Cole, Colin, Dunn, Duvall, Franklin, Hale, Louis-Dreyfus, Richardson, Scheer, Scott, Simons, Sutherland, Walsh
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Last Spike (Canadian Pacific Railway)
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The Last Spike of the Canadian Pacific Railway was the ceremonial final spike driven into the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) at Craigellachie, British Columbia at 9:22 am on November 7, 1885. It was driven in by CPR railroad financier Donald Smith, marking the end of a saga of natural disasters, financial crises, and even rebellion that plagued Canada's first transcontinental railroad from its beginning.[1]
Donald Alexander Smith drives in the Last Spike
Telegram to Prime Minister John A. Macdonald announcing the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, November 7, 1885.
The Last Spike signalled the completion of the CPR, driven through under engineer James Ross, and it remains a symbol of national unity in Canada, though due to the need to build protective snowsheds in Rogers Pass and Kicking Horse Pass in addition to the actual rails and roadbed, through trains did not run until June 1886. At the time, the railway's completion fulfilled an 1871 commitment made by the Canadian federal government to British Columbia which stipulated that a railroad be built joining the Pacific province to Central Canada. The promise of a transcontinental railway had been a major factor in British Columbia's decision to join the Canadian Confederation.[2] However, successive governments mismanaged the project and by the original deadline of 1881 little of the railway had been completed, resulting in threats of secession by some BC politicians.[citation needed] The work was then assigned to a newly incorporated CPR company, which was allowed an additional ten years to complete the line, and they did it in five.[3]
A plaque commemorating the driving of the Last Spike
The circumstance of the CPR's last spike ceremony led several spikes to assume the honour of being the "last spike".[4] In contrast to the ceremonial gold or silver final spikes often used to mark the completion of other major railroads, the CPR's "Last Spike" was a conventional iron spike identical to the many others used in the construction of the line. A silver spike had been created for the Governor General, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, who was to be present at the ceremony but he was forced, due to poor weather, to return with the spike to Ottawa, Ontario.[5] The silver spike remained with the Van Horne family until 2012 when they donated it, along with other artifacts, to the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec.[6]
The symbolic iron spike driven by Donald Smith was badly bent as he pounded it into the railway tie. Roadmaster Frank Brothers extracted the spike and it was given to Smith as the "last spike". Smith had the bent spike straightened and cut several strips of iron from it which were mounted with diamonds and presented to the wives of some of the party assembled at Craigellachie. This spike was later donated to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. It is on long term loan to the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia where it is displayed as a tribute to the immigrant railway workers who were critical to the railway's construction.[7]
Smith later used another iron spike, usually called "the ordinary" or "fourth spike" to provide iron to make symbolic jewelry for the wives of other officials, but he made the strips larger to distinguish these souvenirs from the original brooches.[4]
The second last spike, which Smith successfully drove into the tie, was removed from the track shortly after the ceremony to prevent theft by souvenir hunters. A regular spike was inserted in its place. This spike was given to the son of the patent office president at the time, and is still in the family's possession, fashioned into the shape of a carving knife.[8]
The now-famous photograph of Donald Alexander Smith driving in "The Last Spike" was taken by Winnipeg photographer Alexander J. Ross.[8][9]
In popular culture[edit]
The most notable accounts of the construction and completion of the CPR are Pierre Berton's twin volumes The National Dream and The Last Spike,[8] which together were depicted in the Canadian television docudrama miniseries The National Dream, an eight-part series whose rated audience of three million within Canada set a record for CBC in terms of dramatic programming.
Another important recollection of this event is the narrative poem entitled Towards the Last Spike by Canadian poet, E. J. Pratt.
A board game published under the name "The Last Spike" had as its object the financing and construction of a trans-Canadian railway.[10]
See also[edit]
Last Spike monument
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Last Spike.
Towards the Last Spike (poem)
Last Spike (Grand Trunk Pacific Railway)
Golden spike
Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Rudolph L. Daniels (2000). Trains Across the Continent: North American Railroad History. Indiana University Press. p. 63. ISBN 0-253-21411-4.
Jump up ^ Tom Murray (2011). Rails Across Canada: The History of Canadian Pacific and Canadian National Railways. MBI Publishing Company. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-61060-139-9.
Jump up ^ Derek Hayes (2006). Historical Atlas of Canada: Canada's History Illustrated with Original Maps. Douglas & McIntyre. p. 219. ISBN 978-1-55365-077-5.
^ Jump up to: a b Sandra Martin, "Legendary railway spike thought lost to history – until now", The Globe and Mail, June 22, 2012
Jump up ^ "The silver Spike Meant to Unite Canada". Kudos! (5). Fall 2012. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
Jump up ^ "A Great Canadian Legacy". The Canadian Museum of Civilization. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
Jump up ^ Charlotte Gray, The Museum Called Canada: 25 Rooms of Wonder, Random House Canada (2004), p. 263
^ Jump up to: a b c Berton, Pierre (1971). The Last Spike. McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 0-7710-1327-2.
Jump up ^ "Description found in Archives: C-003693". Library and Archives Canada. Government of Canada. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
Jump up ^ 'The Last Spike'. Designers Tom Dalgliesh, Lance Gutteridge, Ron Gibson. Gamma Two Games, 1976. [1]
Coordinates: 50°58′31″N 118°43′25″W / 50.97528°N 118.72361°W / 50.97528; -118.72361 (Craigellachie)
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