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14 Facts About Abigail Savage

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Abigail Savage was born on June 26,1977 and is an American actress and sound editor.

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Abigail Savage was born in New York City to Tereze Gluck, vice president of Citibank for her entire career of over thirty years, and a fiction writer.

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Gluck bought a home in 2015 in Cherry Grove, a hamlet on Fire Island, where Savage would stay during her breaks.

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Abigail Savage's father is an audiophile and started her interests in sound technology.

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Abigail Savage would go to his apartment when she was twelve and he would show off his system and classical records, including the turntable for vinyl records.

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Abigail Savage was a theatre major and graduated from Williams College, a liberal arts college in Massachusetts, in 1998.

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Abigail Savage has had several New York City theater roles: Dido, Queen of Carthage at The Ohio Theatre ; Demon Baby at The Ohio Theater ; Silence at The Ohio Theater ; Seven in One Blow or The Brave Little Kid at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts ; Hospital 2005 at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts ; and a mathematical savant in The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem at The Connelly Theater.

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Abigail Savage got interested in the sound editing industry to support her between acting jobs, and fell in love with the work.

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Abigail Savage did sound for the senior production at college so took the position.

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Abigail Savage says that her sound designer work complements her acting as it teaches the importance of consistency in takes, and handling the props the same way each time.

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Abigail Savage joined the cast of Jenji Kohan's Netflix series Orange Is the New Black in 2013 as "kitchen-bound" inmate Gina Murphy at a minimum-security women's prison.

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Abigail Savage's character was transferred from Litchfield to FDC Cleveland in Ohio along with a number of other inmates.

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Abigail Savage is married to Caitlin McElroy, with whom she has a daughter.

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Abigail Savage is the niece of Nobel laureate poet Louise Gluck.