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Danielle Brooks poses alongside co-star Uzo Aduba at the premiere of Orange Is the New Black‘s final season on Thursday (July 25) at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Danielle is currently pregnant with her first child and Uzo cradled her baby bump on the red carpet.

“I remember my first premiere like it was yesterday. My dress zipper popped and my friend @iammetch found a seamstress in the final hour to fix my dress. I was freaking out about being late, and my dad, and two of my best friends were by my side that night. It was my first carpet EVER and my teeth wouldn’t stop chattering because I was sooo nervous,” Danielle wrote on her Instagram page that day.

She added, “All these pictures hold a story but the photos I take tonight will mean the most, as I share them with the people who have become my family and with carrying the little Debbie cake inside this Taystee oven. It’s the end of an era, and the beginning of so much more. Thank you to all the fans who have been supporting us from Day 1 and all who have jumped on board season after season.”

FYI: Danielle is wearing a Christian Siriano dress. Uzo is wearing a SemSem dress and Irene Neuwirth jewelry.

Uzo Aduba, Jenji Kohan and Cindy Holland are on the cover of Variety‘s latest issue, out now.

Here’s what the Orange Is The New Black cast and crew had to say…

Uzo, on the show’s beginning before streaming was popular: “When we were making Orange [in 2012], it wasn’t like House of Cards was actually on television for us to be like, ‘Oh, it’s going to be that. It’s like, ‘Is it a web series? Is it going to be on YouTube? I don’t really get what this is.’ Additionally, the makeup of our show wasn’t something that was all over the television landscape.”

Uzo, on working in television: “It was something that, up until then, I didn’t actively pursue, because I had never seen a space for myself there existent in it.”

Jenji, on why she loved the Netflix model from the start: “Here was a network that was willing to buy an entire season at once and fund it and support it. There was nothing better in my mind. I had gone through years and years of pilots, and [for Netflix] to say, ‘We’re going to support your vision through a whole season’ was an amazing opportunity. It had a real budget and a team that was really into it, so I wasn’t thinking in terms of ‘No one will see it’ or ‘It’ll only be on the web’ or whatever. It’s like, ‘I get to make this.’”

For more from the OITNB stars, head to Variety.com.

The trailer for Beats is here!

The Chris Robinson-directed coming-of-age drama hits Netflix on June 19.

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The movie also stars Uzo Aduba, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Khalil Everage, Dreezy, and Dave East.

In the movie, a reclusive teenage musical prodigy (Everage) forms an unlikely friendship with a down-on-his-luck high school security guard (Anderson). United by their mutual love of hip hop, they try to free each other from the demons of their past and break into the city’s music scene.

Watch the trailer…

Sarah Paulson and Uzo Aduba are joining the cast!

The American Horror Story actress and the Orange Is The New Black star are joining the upcoming FX drama series Mrs. America, Variety confirmed on Tuesday (May 14).

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Cate Blanchett was previously announced as a cast member as well.

The series, out in 2020, will tell the story of the movement to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and the unexpected backlash led by a conservative woman named Phyllis Schlafly, played by Cate.

Uzo will play Shirley Chisholm, the first African American Congresswoman, and also the first African American candidate to run for President from a national political party when she launched her 1972 campaign.

Sarah plays Alice, a fictional character, who is Phyllis’ best friend and joins Phyllis’ efforts to block the ERA.

Other newly announced cast members include Rose Byrne, who will play Gloria Steinem and James Marsden, who will play Phil Crane, a conservative congressman from Phyllis’ home state of Illinois and one of her most powerful allies.

Taylor Schilling poses alongside Danielle Brooks and Natasha Lyonne as they step out for the Orange is the New Black Your Your Consideration Screening on Tuesday night (April 30) at the Metrograph in New York City.

The ladies attended the event to promote the seventh and final season of their hit Netflix series.

Fellow cast mates at the event included Uzo Aduba, Jessica Pimental, Selenis Leyva, Dascha Polanco, and Adrienne C. Moore.

Netflix has not yet announced an official release date for the final season. Previous seasons have arrived in June or July though.

20+ pictures inside of the OITNB ladies at the screening…More Here! »

Jennifer Garner and Natalie Portman are standing in solidarity with female soccer players!

The two actresses joined Uzo Aduba, Jessica Chastain and Eva Longoria to support the Time’s Up Pay Up movement at the U.S. Women’s National Team Players Event on Sunday (April 7) at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles.

The group showed their support for women soccer player’s fight for equal pay, as they are not paid the same as their male counterparts, despite constantly outperforming them.

The U.S. women’s soccer team are consistently ranked number one in the world and outperform the men’s team when it comes to victories, domestic viewership and name recognition.

Despite making millions of dollars for the U.S. Soccer Federation, they are still paid less.

“So the US women’s team is the best in the world and the men’s team gets paid more? #TimesUpPayUp,” Jessica wrote on her Instagram stories.

To support the Time’s Up Pay Up movement with the shirts worn by the celebrities at the event, head to timesupnow.com.

Gina Rodriguez, Lena Waithe, and Uzo Aduba hit the red carpet while attending the 2019 NAACP Image Awards’ Non-Televised Dinner on Friday (March 29) at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Joining Gina at the event was her fiance Joe LoCicero!

Also in attendance at the event were The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah, Black-ish‘s Marsai Martin, Miles Brown, and Marcus Scribner, The Real‘s Tamera Mowry, Adrienne Bailon, and Loni Love, This Is Us‘ Lyric Ross and Lonnie Chavis, Us‘ Winston Duke, Rent Live‘s Brandon Victor Dixon, The Passage‘s Saniyya Sidney, Insecure‘s Jay Ellis, and director Boots Riley.

Marsai won two awards – Best Performance by a Youth in a Series and Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Marcus picked up Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. The Real won Outstanding Talk Series.

FYI: Gina is wearing a Roland Mouret dress and a Lala Lexa clutch. Uzo is wearing a Rosetta Getty dress. Marsai is wearing a Bibhu Mohapatra dress and Nicholas Kirkwood shoes. Trevor is wearing a Dior blazer, Givenchy pants, and Saint Laurent shoes. Adrienne is wearing a Dress The Population jumpsuit.