‘Orange Is the New Black’ Star Samira Wiley Engaged to Show Writer Lauren Morelli
Congratulations are in order for actress Samira Wiley and writer Lauren Morelli!
The couple announced they’re engaged on Instagram on Tuesday, with a joyful selfie in which 29-year-old Wiley prominently sports her sparkly new engagement ring.
“Yes,” Wiley captioned the pic.
A photo posted by Samira Wiley (@whododatlikedat) on Oct 4, 2016 at 9:08am PDT
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Morelli posted the same snap on her own Instagram, adding a heart emoji.
The pair has been dating since 2014. Morelli, a writer for Orange Is the New Black, was previously married but she and her husband jointly filed for divorce after she realized upon joining the staff that she was a lesbian. In an essay she wrote for Mic.com in May 2014, Morelli said that the OITNB storyline between Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling) and her ex-girlfriend, Alex Vause (Laura Prepon), was a huge push for her to come out, after only being married a few months.
“I was nervous about the first love scene I’d written for Alex and Piper,” Morelli wrote. “I’d loved writing it, loved watching a tenderness emerge in their relationship where passion always seemed to be the ruling principle, but by that time, I was so deep in my own self-doubt that I constantly felt like a fraud. I was sure it was bleeding into my writing. How could it not? I was married to a man, but I wasn’t straight.”
“I found a mouthpiece for my own desires and a glimmer of what my future could look like,” she added.
Thanks for the weekend, my love. See you soon, boo.
A photo posted by Samira Wiley (@whododatlikedat) on Sep 6, 2016 at 1:15pm PDT
ET spoke to Wiley last month, when she talked about – [Spoiler Alert] – her beloved OITNB character, Poussey Washington, being killed off at the end of season four.
“I feel like I grew up on that show … Those were really formative years,” she said. “I’d never played a character as long as I played Poussey. Spending time with her, so much time embodying that character, it was so – and still is, and always will be – so special to me and a part of who I am.”
“There are so many people that are so attached to her in a way that I don’t think I understood until this happened,” she added.
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Watch the video below to see an exclusive look at Wiley in her latest role – playing a pregnant mother and wife in 37 – a retelling of the horrific true crime of Kitty Genovese’s 1964 murder in New York.
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