Catherine Curtin
Biography
Catherine Curtin is an American film, television and theater actress. Playing mostly roles in film and television, she is best known for her role as correctional officer Wanda Bell on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, and has also appeared in Insecure, Stranger Things, and Homeland. She has appeared in many Off-Broadway productions, including the title role of Janis Joplin in Love, Janis.
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Acting History
2025
Floating Carousel as Carla
2025Long Pork as Angela
2025Pretty Thing as Peggy
2025End Meeting
2025Bad Shabbos as Beth
2025Human Affairs as Peggy
2024Regarding Us as Betsy
2024Saturday Night as Joan Carbunkle
2024The Easy Kind as Meg
2024Revelation as Lisa
2024If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing as Carrie
2024Works of Mercy as Mallory
2024Yaniv as Principal O'Donnell
2024Poof as Paula
2024The Disruptors as Sue Kerrigan
2024Founders Day as Commissioner Peterson
2023Ramona at Midlife as Julie
2023Benji's Hour as Susan
2023Rabbit Hole as Denise
2023Command Z as Carol
2023Hangdog as Buffy
2023Brenda and Billy and the Pothos Plant as Mother
2023Wellspring
2023Toe Tag
2023Galapagos as Mrs. Wilson
2023Dope King as Luca
2022Lie Hard
2022Launch at Paradise as Dr. Barget
202218½ as Lena
2022A Shot Through the Wall as Cynthia Kostas
2022F^¢K '€M R!GHT B@¢K as Sheila
2021Are You Happy Now as Norma
2021Good Grief as Aunt Karen
2021Kendra and Beth as Ada
2021Worth as Joan
2021The Surrogate as Sarah Friedberg
2021Werewolves Within as Jeanine Sherman
2021Law & Order: Organized Crime as Ronnie
2021New Flesh for the Old Ceremony
2020Gets Good Light
2020Triple Threat as Audrey Williamson
2020What Breaks the Ice as Elaine
2020The Artist's Wife as Joyce
2020First One In as Jane
2020Chemical Hearts as Sarah Sawyer
2020The Half of It as Colleen Munsky
2020Inside the Rain as Nancy Glass
2020Hung Up as Mrs. Squires
2020Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens as Dude Ranch Debbie
2019Bad Education as Judy Shapiro
2019The Loudest Voice as Michelle Hirshman
2019The Lost Weekend as Aunt Janice
2019Hooked as Rainey Masters
2019Blush as Gail
2018In Case of Emergency as Homeless Woman
2017MINDHUNTER as Mrs. Ruth Barnwright
2017Beauty Mark as Ruth Ann
2017Camera Obscura as Det. Dawson
2017Crazy Famous as Mrs. Marcus
2017The Light of the Moon as Kirra
2017Kreativ: A Study in Creativity by Alexander Ekman as Self
2016Insecure as Joanne
2016Gold Star as Deanne
2016Bull as Joyce Magruder
2016Catfight as Carl's Wife
2016Stranger Things as Claudia Henderson
2015Fan Girl
2015Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as Administrator
2015Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as Coach Tannen
2014The Leftovers as Mrs. Tunney
2013The Wolf of Wall Street as FBI Agent #1
2013The Blacklist as Connor
2013Orange Is the New Black as Wanda Bell
2012The Bourne Legacy as C-Team
2012A Wife Alone as Holly
2012Nature Calls as Leachman's Mother
2011Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as Leigh-Anne Black
2011Homeland as Sandy
2011Homeland as Sandy Langmore
2011Caught as Mom
2011Bestsellers as Abby
2008Revolutionary Road as Woman in Audience
2008Chicago 10 as Barbara Callender (voice)
2007Noise as Barbara
2007The Naked Brothers Band as Crazy Betty
2007The Naked Brothers Band as Betty
200630 Rock as Waitress
2006The Limbo Room as Bryce
2003Happy End as Beatrix
2002Unconditional Love as Woman Chosen for Show
2001The Next Big Thing as 'Weltanschauung' Woman
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Jenna Switzer
1999Third Watch as Zebra
1998Sex and the City as Girl #2
1996Ed's Next Move as Anne (as Cathy Curtin)
1995Suspicions as Bridgette
1990Law & Order as Julie Liscomb
1990The Inheritor as Minister's Wife
—A Company of Thieves
—The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems as Pam Creighton
—Real, True 100 Percent Love as Debra
—Raising the Stakes as Theresa