Dale Soules Biography
Dale Soules is an American actress. She is famously known for starring in The Messenger. The openly confessed lesbian is also known for her appearance in Sesame Street. She portayed Frieda Berlin in Orange Is The New Black since 2013.
Growing up in the Greenwood Lake section of West Milford, she attended West Milford High School. It is while in high school, that Soules became interested in acting. She began acting in Summer stock theater and singing in church choirs. Later on, she started studying acting at HB Studio.
Soules left for New York in the mid 1960s after high school to try her luck in an acting career. Initially, she worked behind the scenes in theater in a variety of positions. She participated in small insignificant roles before finally becoming a pro. She got her big break in 1968.
This was after she landed her first Broadway role, the part of Jeanie in the original Broadway production of Hair. Afterwards she made a number of other appearances in theater productions. She has appeared in numerous movies and television shows. These include; four years in the play The Magic Show, Hands on a Hard Body, Grey Gardens, and The Crucible.
She joined the cast of Orange Is The New Black during its second season. She landed a recurring role of Frieda Berlin. Starting with the show’s sixth season, Soules was promoted to a series regular.
Soules is a strong supporter of charity organisations. Recently, she has participated in March For Our Lives. She has also served as a celebrity host for AIDS walks in New York and San Francisco. She has taken part in a Broadway Sings For Pride event in support of the Tyler Clementi Foundation. The foundation combats bullying and harassment in the name of a Rutgers freshman who killed himself in 2010 after falling victim to cyberbullying at the hands of his roommate.
Dale Soules Age
Dale Soules was born in New Jersey, United States of America. She was born on 2nd October, 1946. Her current age is 72 years old as of 2018.
Dale Soules Net Worth
Dale has made a huge fortune from her career as an actress. She is famous for her role as Frieda Berlin on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black. She began as a guest star in 2014’s season 2. She was later upped to series regular prior to season 6 in 2018. Dale Soules has an approximated net worth of $12 million. She has her net worth mainly from her career as an actress.
Dale Soules Partner
Dale Soules is an openly confessed gay. It has not been easy for her either. She says growing up at a time where being gay was treated as a disease led to suicidal thoughts.
“When I was coming up, the best version of why you were gay was that it was an illness. That’s not a good feeling, I can say. It made me suicidal, the thought that I would be passing on a disease to anyone I felt affection for was something I just couldn’t square. Luckily I met some people in the theater who I saw were not people that needed to be hidden under rocks or cured.”
We do not know her partner yet. She has been very secretive about her personal life though.
Dale Soules Movies And Tv Shows | Dale Soules New Amsterdam
- My Love Affair with Marriage (filming)
- 2019 New Amsterdam (TV Series)
- 2014-2018 Orange Is the New Black (TV Series)
- 2018 The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- 2017 At Home with Amy Sedaris (TV Series)
- 2013 Unforgettable (TV Series)
- 2010 Big Lake (TV Series)
- 2010 How to Make It in America (TV Series)
- 2007 American Masters (TV Series documentary)
- 2005 Law & Order (TV Series)
- 1981 American Playhouse (TV Series)
- 1976 Isabella and the Magic Brush (Short) (voice)
- 1975 Chicken Soup with Rice (Video short)
Dale Soules Ear | Dale Soules Tattoos
Dale Soules boasts neck tattoos. We do not have any information yet about her ears, We we will keep you updated.
Dale Soules Interview
Q: What are the recent projects that you are working on?
Dale Soules: Well, I’ve been working on a lot of things. I just finished doing a play at Irish Reparatory by a very brilliant writer named Marina Carr. She’s kind of a rockstar in Ireland. She’s just a wonderful, wonderful writer and I’ve been following her for years, hoping to get to do a piece of hers. That project was called Woman and Scarecrow. It was dealing with a woman who was in her 50’s and dying while coming to terms with her new life, as one does when they get closer to the end.
Q: How was Frieda on “Orange is the New Black” originally described to you?
Dale Soules: [laughs] Actually, I looked that up and found the original casting call breakdown. “Frieda: female, Caucasian in 60’s to 70’s, grandmotherly and gray with only a faded tattoo peeking out of her shirt to suggest a racier past. Part of ‘The Golden Girls.’ Reoccurring.” As you can see, it ended up being something quite different.
Q: Then the Southern accent was something you added on your own.
Dale Soules: Yes, it was. It was something I added, and I had just come off of doing Hands on a Hard Body on Broadway, which took place in Texas. As the seasons went on and they kept me on “Orange is the New Black,” they decided I was from Arkansas. So, I chose to do the accent in the audition – very, very slight. Slighter than it now appears in the series, I think. A funny story, in regard to the beginning of this, when I first got the call to go in for the audition I hadn’t seen “Orange is the New Black.” It was in the beginning of the second season, so my agent said, “We have an audition for you, ‘Orange is the New Black.’”
Q: How do you get into character?
Dale Soules: In this particular case, my dad had spent time in prison and I’ve done plays…I did the play Getting Out, which takes place in prison and is about someone who spent most of their life in incarcerated. I perform all over the country in prisons. Not only – but as part of a one-person tour in the 80’s. I made sure that I was doing it in prisons.
Q: What have you found that continues to challenge you about this role?
Dale Soules: It’s very much like real life – you don’t know what is going to happen next. So, you don’t even know if you’re telling the truth at any given moment. For instance, early on (as you may or may not remember) I removed a very important appendage from my husband. Meaning, I cut off his penis. When I read that in the script, I was a little shocked. [laughs] They were shooting the show and it was my second or third episode and they were shooting in my neighborhood in Park Slope. I saw that they were shooting in my neighborhood and I found out where they were having lunch.
Q: This season Frieda has spent a lot of time with Crazy Eyes. Talk about working with costar Uzo Aduba.
Dale Soules: She is really, really wonderful to work with her. She completely commits to whatever her truth or reality is in a given scene. She’s very giving as an actor. She listens. She is wonderful to work with, overall. I would say her honesty and her commitment are the two greatest assets that I felt working with her. And her generosity! She’s very generous as an actress.
Q: Is there someone you haven’t worked with yet that you hope to share a scene with in the future?
Dale Soules: [laughs] Honestly, the cast is so stellar and so wonderful. They support each other outside of “Orange is the New Black” as well. We are extremely supportive of each other because we respect each other and each other’s work. It’s a very work-woman like set. So, there is no one on that set that I have encountered so far that I would not like to do a scene with. I don’t mean to sound like a Pollyanna about that, but it is the truth. There is no one that I haven’t worked with that I wouldn’t like to work with. I would like to work with anyone that I haven’t yet.
Q: What were some of your most memorable moments from filming Season 6 of “Orange is the New Black?”
Dale Soules: I would say the dog Christmas party was very memorable. I’m serious. [laughs] We had a Christmas party, but it was a dog Christmas party. So many people have dogs that it was absolutely one of the most fun parties that I have ever been to in my life because everyone was concerned with their animals and not worrying about being socially ept. [laughs] It was fantastic! I took about fifty pictures, I think. It was just wonderful. It was, honestly, extremely memorable. It was also very good for letting off steam. It is a comedy and a drama.
Q: What have you personally taken away from your time working on the show?
Dale Soules: I had a woman come up to me at Lincoln Center two years ago while I was doing Shows For Days with Patti LuPone. I was sitting outside afterwards and a woman came up to me and said, “You know, I have a sister who has been incarcerated. I’ve never, ever been able to understand why you would take that chance for that to happen – what did she do. Honestly, not to get overly serious about this, watching ‘Orange is the New Black’ has shown me how thin that line is between doing something that is illegal and getting caught at it – how thin that line is being on one side or the other of the law and how hard it is when you get out of prison to reestablish yourself in a different way than when you went in.” It happens over and over, that kind of response from the audience. And that’s wonderful!
Q: What would you like to say to everyone who is a fan and supporter of you and the work that you do?
Dale Soules: I love you! [laughs] I thank you. The theatre saved my life. Story telling saved my life. So, the fact that I have an audience that likes the way that I do what I do – I’m eternally grateful for that. I really am. It’s a conversation. It’s a two-way street. Whether it is a live conversation (like with theatre) or a much more accessible conversation like this where a lot more people get to see it, it is still a conversation. I meet people on the train where they say, “Oh my God! Oh my God! You like my aunt! I never thought I’d see somebody who was like my aunt because you understand what happened to her.” Now, they do! So, that’s the most rewarding thing for me.
SOURCE: starrymag.com