Lorna Morello

Lorna Morello Muccio is a fictional character from the Netflix dramedy series Orange Is the New Black, played by Yael Stone. The actress originally auditioned for the role of Nicky Nichols in August 2012, but actress Natasha Lyonne was cast instead. Stone was then brought back to try out for Morello and she learned she had won the role two days later. She was initially contracted for one episode, but the producers kept bringing her back. Morello is based on two real-life inmates featured in Piper Kerman's 2010 novel Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. Morello made her first screen appearance during the premiere episode titled "I Wasn't Ready", which aired on July 11, 2013. Morello is portrayed as being a positive Italian person, bold, opinionated and "a hopeless romantic". She has a distinctive accent, which is a mix of Brooklyn and Boston. Morello bases her style on actress Natalie Wood. She wears red lipstick, uses instant coffee as brown eye shadow and her vintage-style waves are set with toilet paper curler