Alysia Reiner is an American actress. She is best known for playing Natalie "Fig" Figueroa in the Netflix comedy drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019), for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as part of the ensemble cast.
Reiner starred in and produced the financial drama Equity, which was bought at Sundance by Sony Pictures Classics and released nationwide. It was set to be developed into a TV series by Tri-Star and ABC. She also originated the role of DODC Agent Sadie Deever in the Disney+/Marvel series Ms. Marvel and joined the cast of The Diplomat for its second and third seasons. Reiner has appeared in several Off-Broadway plays and won an Obie Award for her performance in An Oak Tree. In Sideways, the critically acclaimed comedy-drama film, Reiner played Christine Ergarian, for which she won her first ensemble cast SAG Award. She played District Attorney Wendy Parks in the ABC crime-legal drama TV series How to Get Away with Murder and Sunny in the FX comedy Better Things. In 2016, she also appeared in Season 4 of Masters of Sex on Showtime, as Lilian Izikoff on Rosewood, and Trina in the TBS series Search Party.
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Early life
Reiner was born in Gainesville, Florida, in 1970. She graduated from Vassar College and studied acting at the British American Drama Academy and the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Reiner is Jewish.
Career
Theatre
She joined Tim Crouch in the Obie Award–winning An Oak Tree at The Barrow Street and Jayson with a Y with The New Group. At The Beckett, she played roles in Anaïs Nin: One of Her Lives and Wasps in Bed. She has been deemed an "Off-Broadway Favorite" by Theatremania and was called "priceless" by The New York Times. In 2025, Reiner starred in the world premiere of Keiko Green's You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World. She also appeared in the New York premiere of David Edgar's Pentecost.
Film and television
Reiner has appeared in several films, including Kissing Jessica Stein, The Vicious Kind, Arranged, Schooled, That Awkward Moment, and 5 Flights Up. In 2004, she played the role of Christine Erganian, Thomas Haden Church's character's fiancée, in the film Sideways, which won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. She also had roles in several independent films.
On television, Reiner has appeared on more than 50 shows as series regular, guest star or in recurring roles, including Natalie Figueroa in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black. In 2014 she joined the cast of ABC legal drama series,How to Get Away with Murder produced by Shonda Rhimes, in a recurring role of D.A. Wendy Parks, a prosecutor who goes up against Viola Davis' character. In 2018 Reiner joined the cast of The Deuce as agent Kiki Rains.
In 2014, Reiner announced that she would be launching Broad Street Pictures to produce films with strong female roles.
As a producer, Reiner produced and starred in the motherhood comedy Egg with Christina Hendricks and Anna Camp, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She also starred in Stampede Ventures' feature Going Places and produced and appeared in the film Ramona at Midlife.
Awards and honors
In addition to her Screen Actors Guild Award, Reiner received the inaugural Acclaimed Collaboration Award from the Women in the Arts & Media Coalition in 2019 for her work on Egg. She received the MUSE "Made in NY" Award from the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment and NYWIFT in 2017. She has also received the Sarah Powell Huntington Leadership Award from the Women's Prison Association.
Personal life
Reiner has been married to actor David Alan Basche since 1997. The couple have a daughter and reside in Harlem, New York City.
Reiner is involved with many nonprofit organizations and charities, including the Cancer Support Community, Actors for Autism, PEN International, SAY: The Stuttering Association for the Young, Bent on Learning, Safe Kids Worldwide, The Young Women's Leadership Network, Amnesty International, Cool Effect, and Election Defenders. Before the 2022 midterm elections, Reiner posted on Instagram using the #IDCHECK hashtag, asking voters to check their IDs to make sure they meet local requirements and citing VoteRiders as a resource for voter ID information and assistance.
