Laura Prepon rose to fame with her role as Donna Pinciotti in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show.
37 Facts About Laura Prepon
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Laura Prepon is known for portraying Alex Vause in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black.
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Laura Prepon is the youngest of five children of Marjorie, a high school teacher and gourmet home chef, and Michael Prepon, an orthopedic surgeon.
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Laura Prepon's father died during heart surgery in 1993 at age 49; she was 13 at the time.
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Laura Prepon attended Watchung Hills Regional High School until she was 15, then studied at the Total Theatre Lab in New York City.
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Laura Prepon's father was Jewish, of Russian Jewish descent, and her mother has mostly Irish Catholic ancestry.
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Laura Prepon appeared in plays such as A Woman of Property and Ascension Day while in New York.
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Laura Prepon had worked as a model and has done photo shoots in Paris, Milan, and Brazil.
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Laura Prepon starred as Donna Pinciotti on the Fox sitcom That '70s Show from 1998 to 2006.
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Laura Prepon attended film school while she worked on That '70s Show.
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Laura Prepon co-starred in the college comedy Slackers, about three best friends who are blackmailed for cheating their way through college.
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Laura Prepon was nominated for a Teen Choice Award in 2002 for her role in That '70s Show.
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In 2004, Laura Prepon worked on the independent drama film The Pornographer: A Love Story.
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Laura Prepon had a cameo voice appearance as a United Nations Space Command marine in Halo 2, which was released in 2004.
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Laura Prepon appeared on an episode of MTV's Cribs in 2003.
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Laura Prepon co-starred with Bryan Greenberg as Hannah Daniels in the ABC drama October Road, which debuted March 15,2007.
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Laura Prepon appeared in the 2005 Oxygen romantic comedy Romancing the Bride.
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Laura Prepon appeared as Lauren, the long-lost sister of Mary Shannon in the USA Network mystery drama In Plain Sight in the episode "A Frond in Need".
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On February 5,2010, it was announced that Laura Prepon signed on to star in Awkward Situations for Men, a pilot on ABC.
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In 2009, Laura Prepon appeared in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother as Karen, one of the girlfriends of Ted Mosby, in the episode "Sorry, Bro".
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Laura Prepon reprised her role in the episodes "The Front Porch" in 2009 and "Say Cheese" in 2010.
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Laura Prepon had been taking directing classes at the Art Center College of Design.
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Laura Prepon 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".
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Laura Prepon stated she plans on making Abide with Me into a feature film.
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In early 2011, Laura 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.
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Laura Prepon had been working on a web series, Neighbros, which she directed and edited, starring her then-boyfriend Scott Michael Foster.
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Laura Prepon guest-starred in the TBS sitcom Men at Work.
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In mid-2012, Laura Prepon signed on to co-star with Taylor Schilling in the Netflix original comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black, based on Piper Kerman's 2010 memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison.
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Laura Prepon was cast as Alex Vause, a former drug importer and girlfriend of Piper Chapman.
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Laura Prepon was a regular in the first season, but appeared in only four of the 13 episodes in the second season.
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Laura Prepon returned as a series regular in the third season.
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In 2016, Laura Prepon and nutritionist Elizabeth Troy co-wrote The Stash Plan, a wellness book that draws on Laura Prepon's experiences eating organic foods since she was a child, and her struggles with weight, low energy, and digestive issues.
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Since publishing The Stash Plan, Laura Prepon has expanded her cooking career, launching a line of kitchenware products called PrepOn Kitchen and regularly posting instructional videos online.
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In 2016, Laura Prepon appeared in the psychological thriller The Girl on the Train, based on Paula Hawkins' novel of the same name.
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Laura Prepon directed the tenth episode of Orange Is the New Blacks fifth season, titled "The Reverse Midas Touch".
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Laura Prepon was in a relationship with her That '70s Show co-star's brother Christopher Masterson from 1999 to 2007.
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Laura Prepon later dated Scott Michael Foster for several years, but said in 2013 they had broken up.