lea delaria played big boo in orange is the new black.
lea delaria played big boo in orange is the new black.
who plays big boo in orange is the new black?
lea delaria
carrie "big boo" black (played by lea delaria) – a prison inmate and lesbian, she has had several "wives" during her incarceration. tricia and boo have had problems in the past fighting over a girl. she has piper helping her write a letter for her appeal and takes the missing screwdriver from piper's bunk unbeknownst to piper, which she uses to aid in masturbation. she later returns the screwdriver to piper when piper becomes stressed over the fact that tiffany is threatening to kill her. during the first season, boo is often accompanied by a dog she named "little boo." she got rid of the dog by the second season, saying things were getting "weird." it is implied boo considered using the dog to stimulate herself sexually. she later participates in a competition with nicky to see who can have sex with the most inmates. boo has little loyalty to anyone and, trying to ingratiate herself with the powerful vee, betrays red by telling vee about the tunnel. as a result, she is shunned by red's family, and vee rejects her for snitching. afterwards, she strikes up an unlikely friendship with tiffany — which soon develops to be a close bond — and, when red is hospitalized following an assault by vee, boo helps nicky locate and hide vee's drug stash. during the third season, she is inspired when she realizes that tiffany is getting donations from numerous religious groups and decides to pretend to renounce homosexuality in order to get a similar support base. however, when she is speaking to a reverend that openly disparages homosexuals she is unable to continue her ruse and angrily insults him in retaliation.
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at the beginning of the fifth season, she becomes trapped in the prison with the rioting inmates that have taken the guards hostage. piper and alex find her hiding in the bathroom and give her a prison uniform to help her blend in and pose as a white-collar criminal. when piper and alex attempted to leave her to fend for herself, she threatens to tell mcc what she overheard alex say about her involvement in aydin's death, angering piper but resulting in piper and alex allowing her to stay with them. during flashbacks, linda was being hazed while trying to join a sorority by the sorority leader meg. later, during a party, linda is outside with an intoxicated meg while she is attempting to use the bathroom in freezing temperatures and decides to leave her alone. the following morning, meg is found frozen to death, and after linda lies about being the last person to see her alive, she takes over as leader of the sorority. back in the prison, she becomes attached to big boo for both protection and for sexual intercourse. while sharing an intimate moment with big boo in the bathroom linda's phone falls on the floor and she discovers pictures of her and caputo in it after unlocking it. after a failed attempt to extort $5,000 from linda for her silence, big boo tells the other inmates while they are in the cafeteria that she is the mcc employee responsible for their substandard living conditions for the purpose of budget cuts, resulting in the other prisoners attacking her with several projectiles. after the cert officers breached the prison and bought the inmates outside, she attempted to announce herself as an undercover mcc employee. however, big boo immediately led other inmates into claiming to be mcc employees as well, resulting in linda's declaration being dismissed as false. following this, she is forced to board a bus with the other inmates.
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