Dale Soules

Character actor Dale Soules is best known as tough, tattooed inmate Frieda Berlin on the hit Netflix series, Orange is the New Black (2014-2017), and is the voice of character Darby Steel in Disney-Pixar’s Lightyear (2022), with Chris Evans, Keke Palmer, and Taika Waititi. After training as an actor in New York City, the New Jersey-born Soules landed a major role in the original Broadway cast of the hit 1968 musical, Hair. Her considerable stage credits include Stephen Schwartz’s The Magic Show (1974) and the musical version of Hands on a Hard Body.

Soules began to work more steadily in movies in 2006, with two films by writer-director Katherine Dieckmann: Diggers (2006), with Paul Rudd, Sarah Paulson, and Lauren Ambrose, and Motherhood (2009), with Uma Thurman. Soules played supporting roles in notable recent American indie films, including Brian Shoaf’s Aardvark (2017), with Zachary Quinto, Jon Hamm, and Jenny Slate, and Desiree Akhavan’s Sundance-competing The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018), with Chloe Grace Moretz and Marin Ireland. As well as voicing in Lightyear, Soules is also a voice character in Signe Baumane’s animated feature, My Love Affair with Marriage (2022), with Dagmara Dominczyk, Matthew Modine, and Stephen Lang.