37 Facts About Lorna Morello

Lorna Morello is a fictional character from the Netflix dramedy series Orange Is the New Black, played by Yael Stone.

Lorna Morello is Italian-American, and is portrayed as being a positive, bold, opinionated person and "a hopeless romantic".

Lorna Morello has a distinctive accent, which is a mix of Brooklyn and Boston.

Lorna Morello made her first screen appearance during the season one premiere episode "I Wasn't Ready".

Lorna Morello later ended the relationship, as she felt she was betraying her fiance, Christopher.

Lorna Morello's role was increased in the second season, and her backstory was shown in its fourth episode, "A Whole Other Hole", where it was revealed that she was not engaged to Christopher, and had in fact stalked and harassed him after one date.

Lorna Morello originally tried out for the role of Nicky Nichols, but actress Natasha Lyonne was cast instead.

Lorna Morello auditioned with Morello's distinctive accent and she found out she had won the role two days later.

Lorna Morello is based on two real-life inmates featured in Piper Kerman's 2010 memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison.

Lorna Morello later learned who inspired her character after speaking with Kerman's husband.

Lorna Morello's mother needed constant care, as she was ill, while her father and brother just sat around the house watching television.

Lorna Morello escaped by going to the movies and committing mail fraud by purchasing designer clothing online, then claiming she never received the items to get a refund.

Lorna Morello received a 34-month sentence for her crime, the nature of which was not initially revealed.

Lorna Morello was the first inmate Piper Chapman met at Litchfield, as she was the prison's transport driver.

Stone said Lorna Morello was a positive person and "a really vulnerable human being", who was dealing with her situation the best she could.

Lorna Morello's distinctive accent is a mix of Brooklyn and Boston.

Lorna Morello travelled to Boston to do some research and met with a dialect coach.

The actress later said the accent reflected the fact that Lorna Morello's had drifted down the East Coast and had not quite found where she belonged.

Lorna Morello is a big fan of the musical film West Side Story and its lead actress Natalie Wood, so she styles her hair and make-up in a similar way.

Stone thought that the dress showed that Lorna Morello did not take her crimes seriously.

Lorna Morello praised the show's costume designer, Jenn Rogien, for Morello's "transformative" style.

Lyonne added that Nicky's relationship with Lorna Morello was one of the most "significant" in her life.

Stone hoped that Lorna Morello would reconcile romantically with Nicky, as she missed working closely with Lyonne.

Lyonne believed that Lorna Morello would have to treat Nicky as an equal for them to get back together, which Sadie Gennis from TV Guide doubted Lorna Morello would be mature enough to do.

Lorna Morello was a recurring character for the first and second seasons of Orange Is the New Black.

The episode, titled "A Whole Other Hole", revealed that Lorna Morello's often mentioned fiance, Christopher MacLaren, was not actually her fiance and she had been incarcerated for stalking and terrorizing him.

Stone pointed out that there had been some hints that Lorna Morello was not telling the truth during previous episodes, including Nicky mentioning that Christopher had not been to visit and Lorna Morello's sister, Francine, calling her to say that Christopher was getting married.

Stone believed Lorna Morello is an erotomaniac, someone who suffers from the delusion that their victim is in love with them.

However, when Lorna Morello heard Christopher coming home, she managed to escape and get the van back to the hospital in time.

Lorna Morello decided to do her own stunt when Morello jumped out of the window.

Season 2 saw Lorna Morello interacting with some different inmates, including Crazy Eyes, which Stone was pleased with.

Lorna Morello meets with several men and memorizes various facts about their hobbies to keep them interested.

The couple are married in the season finale and Lorna Morello recites the lyrics of "I Want to Know What Love Is", knowing that Foreigner is Vince's favourite band.

Nicky angrily tells Lorna Morello to stop toying with her affections and ends their friendship.

Nevertheless, Lorna Morello saves Nicky from abusive head guard Desi Piscatella and tells her that she fears that Vince wants nothing to do with the baby.

Nicky then calls Vince and tells him that he needs to take responsibility for his wife and child, leading him and Lorna Morello to decide to be a family.

Nijla Mu'min from Bitch praised Stone's "stirring" performance as Lorna Morello, and thought the character became more interesting following the revelation about her relationship with Christopher.