samira denise wiley played poussey washington on orange is the new black in majority scene.
samira denise wiley played poussey washington on orange is the new black in majority scene.
who plays poussey washington on orange is the new black in majority scene?
samira denise wiley
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samira denise wiley (born april 15, 1987) is an american actress. she is best known for her starring role as poussey washington in the netflix comedy-drama series "orange is the new black" (2013–17) and as moira in the hulu dystopian drama series "the handmaid's tale" (2017–present), for which she won the primetime emmy award for outstanding guest actress in a drama series.









































wiley also had starring roles in such film as "the sitter" (2011), "nerve" (2016), "detroit" (2017), and "social animals" (2018).









































section::::early life.
samira wiley
poussey washington (played by samira wiley) – an often good-natured and joking inmate, who is best friends with taystee. during the first-season finale, she is revealed to have a great singing voice, and performs an improvised rendition of "amazing grace". flashbacks during the second season revealed that she is a military brat and that her father james, who was an officer in the united states army, was stationed at united states army garrison hohenfels, germany with her. while in germany, she had a sexual relationship with franziska mertensacker, the daughter of her father's german superior officer jürgen mertensacker. one evening while poussey and franziska were having sex in franziska's room, mertensacker walked in on them. a short time after being caught poussey's father received orders to leave germany, with it being implied that mertensacker had a hand in getting her father reassigned. this led to poussey trying to kill him before being stopped by her father, who subsequently defended her homosexuality from him. in the present, it is implied that she is in love with taystee, who does not return her feelings on account of being straight but does make an effort to be gentle with her about this. after failing to get her to market her moonshine, vee begins to antagonize poussey, mostly out of jealousy of her closeness to taystee, and partly out of implied homophobia. she separates poussey and taystee, causing a rift in their relationship.
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