Lorraine Toussaint is a Trinidadian-born American actress. She is best known for her role as Yvonne "Vee" Parker in Orange is the New Black. She has also acted in Hudson Hawk, Selma, The Night Before, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Nimona, Any Day Now, Static Shock, Crossing Jordan, Threat Matrix, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Friday Night Lights, Into the Badlands, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Summer Camp Island, and The Equalizer.
For Disney, she voiced Rashida Remington in Big City Greens, Masago in Star Wars: Visions, and Dr. Lullah in StuGo. She also played Irene Roberts in the Touchstone Pictures film Dangerous Minds, and Robert's Associate in the Miramax Films production Mother's Boys. For ABC, she played Amelia 'Yoga' Bluman in Ugly Betty, Dr. Helen Fincher in Grey's Anatomy, Lt. Joanna Reece in Forever, and Aunt Alma Johnson in Black-ish. For Freeform, she played Lorraine in The Secret Life of the American Teenager, and Dana Adams in The Fosters. For Fox, she played Mrs. Payton in The Sinbad Show, and Denise Copeland in M.A.N.T.I.S., and Donna Rosewood in Rosewood.
