Catherine Curtin

Catherine Curtin
Catherine Curtin at the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of Bad Education
Other names	Cathy Curtin
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1990–present

Catherine Curtin is an American actress. She is best known for her role as correctional officer Wanda Bell in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019). Other notable recurring roles include Insecure, Stranger Things, and Homeland.

Her film credits include Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), The Bourne Legacy (2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Catfight (2016), The Light of the Moon (2017), Beauty Mark (2017), Bad Education (2019), Worth (2020), The Half of It (2020), Chemical Hearts (2020), Werewolves Within (2020), Red Pill (2021), Bad Shabbos (2024), and Saturday Night (2024).

Curtin made her Broadway debut in the original production of Six Degrees of Separation.^[1] The following years, she appeared in many Off-Broadway productions, including the title role of Janis Joplin in Love, Janis, for which she was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award.^[2]

On television, Curtin appeared in episodes of New York Undercover, Sex and the City, Law & Order, and 30 Rock. In 2013, she was cast in a recurring role as correctional officer Wanda Bell on the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black.^[3] Along with cast, she won two Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series in 2015 and 2016. She left the series in 2017 and returned for multiple episodes of the final season in 2019. From 2016 to 2018, she had a recurring role on the HBO comedy series Insecure. In 2017, she began a recurring role as Dustin's mother Claudia Henderson in the Netflix horror series Stranger Things.^[4] In 2018, she played Sandy Langmore on the seventh season of Showtime drama Homeland.^[5]

Curtin has played supporting roles in a number of films, including Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), The Bourne Legacy (2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Catfight (2016), The Light of the Moon (2017), Beauty Mark (2017), Bad Education (2019), Worth (2020), The Half of It (2020), Chemical Hearts (2020), Werewolves Within (2020), Red Pill (2021), Bad Shabbos (2024), Regarding Us (2024), and Saturday Night (2024).

• Catherine Curtin at IMDb