nafessa williams played daya on orange is the new black.
nafessa williams played daya on orange is the new black.
who plays daya on orange is the new black?
nafessa williams
dayanara "daya" diaz (played by dascha polanco) – a puerto rican inmate with artistic talents. she is the daughter of aleida diaz, with whom she has a strained relationship, as her mother often ignored her and her sisters as young girls in favor of going out and partying. daya is often criticized by her fellow hispanic inmates because she cannot speak fluent spanish. she developed a romantic relationship with prison guard john bennett and became pregnant with his child. knowing that bennett could be imprisoned for her pregnancy, daya joined forces with red to trick mendez into having sex with her so that he can be blamed for her pregnancy. during the second season, she is shown to be increasingly hormonal and emotional due to the pregnancy, a contrast from her sweet demeanor in the first season. she begins to believe that bennett should serve time for her pregnancy in order to allow them to be together and raise their child after they are both released.
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aleida diaz (played by elizabeth rodriguez) – daya's mother. she was incarcerated for helping her boyfriend cesar with his drug dealing business and taking the blame for him. in flashbacks, it is shown that she had little concern for her children and was obsessed with her boyfriend. she says during a visitation that she is upset that he will not visit her. she treats daya rudely in the prison, and goes so far as to attempt to seduce bennett to make daya angry. she later shows a softer side and advises daya to have her baby, even going so far as to concoct a plan to allow bennett to keep his job. she also finds herself competing with gloria to care for daya during the more difficult times of her pregnancy, finally forcing her to take on a maternal role in her daughter's life. she has high status among the other hispanic inmates. during the second season, she battles with gloria to be a mother to daya, and manipulates bennett to bring in contraband from the outside hidden in his prosthetic leg. during the third season, she attempts to convince daya to give her unborn child to pornstache's mother delia so that she would have a better life and to get a monthly payment from her. later, she decides that it would be better for daya to keep her baby and tells delia that daya's baby died during childbirth while in reality cesar picked up the child. despite this, her cruel and vindictive side is shown when she spreads deliberately untrue and transphobic rumors about sophia to the other inmates in response to a fight between her and gloria, resulting in sophia being attacked by the other inmates, something which weighs heavily on gloria's conscience. during the fourth season, aleida is informed that she is eligible for parole and she asks gloria to watch over daya after her release. after she is released, she is picked up by cesar's girlfriend margarita. while in a restaurant, margarita tells her that cesar got her pregnant, and after becoming upset at the revelation, she yells at a man she believes was profiling her. she gets into an argument with margarita in a clothing store after finding out that she was not planning to stay faithful to cesar while he was in prison, and walks out on her. later that day, after finding out that her cousin jazmina spent her money sock on bail and an er visit, she goes back to margarita's apartment and states that she has nowhere else to go. at the end of the season, she is watching the press conference announcing the death of an inmate with margarita, and becomes concerned for daya's well being since caputo did not mention the deceased inmate's name on the air.
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