Catherine Curtin

Biography

Catherine Curtin is an American film, television and theater actress. Playing mostly roles in film and television, she is best known for her role as correctional officer Wanda Bell on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, and has also appeared in Insecure, Stranger Things, and Homeland. She has appeared in many Off-Broadway productions, including the title role of Janis Joplin in Love, Janis.

Known For

The Blacklist

Law & Order

Stranger Things

Homeland

Homeland

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Sex and the City

Third Watch

All Movies (83)

• Plucked2026 · as Maggie
• Floating Carousel2025 · as Carla
• Long Pork2025 · as Angela
• Pretty Thing2025 · as Peggy
• End Meeting2025
• Bad Shabbos2025 · as Beth
• Human Affairs2025 · as Peggy
• Regarding Us2024 · as Betsy
• Saturday Night2024 · as Joan Carbunkle
• The Easy Kind2024 · as Meg
• Revelation2024 · as Lisa
• If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing2024 · as Carrie
• Works of Mercy2024 · as Mallory
• Yaniv2024 · as Principal O'Donnell
• Poof2024 · as Paula
• The Disruptors2024 · as Sue Kerrigan
• Founders Day2024 · as Commissioner Peterson
• Ramona at Midlife2023 · as Julie
• Benji's Hour2023 · as Susan
• Rabbit Hole2023 · as Denise
• Hangdog2023 · as Buffy
• Brenda and Billy and the Pothos Plant2023 · as Mother
• Works of Mercy2023
• Toe Tag2023
• Galapagos2023 · as Mrs. Wilson
• Dope King2023 · as Luca
• Lie Hard2022
• Launch at Paradise2022 · as Dr. Barget
• 18½2022 · as Lena
• A Shot Through the Wall2022 · as Cynthia Kostas
• F^¢K '€M R!GHT B@¢K2022 · as Sheila
• Are You Happy Now2021 · as Norma
• Good Grief2021 · as Aunt Karen
• Kendra and Beth2021 · as Ada
• Worth2021 · as Joan
• The Surrogate2021 · as Sarah Friedberg
• Werewolves Within2021 · as Jeanine Sherman
• New Flesh for the Old Ceremony2021
• Gets Good Light2020
• Triple Threat2020 · as Audrey Williamson
• What Breaks the Ice2020 · as Elaine
• The Artist's Wife2020 · as Joyce
• First One In2020 · as Jane
• Chemical Hearts2020 · as Sarah Sawyer
• The Half of It2020 · as Colleen Munsky
• Inside the Rain2020 · as Nancy Glass
• Hung Up2020 · as Mrs. Squires
• Bad Education2019 · as Judy Shapiro
• Mad?2019 · as Simone
• The Lost Weekend2019 · as Aunt Janice
• Hooked2019 · as Rainey Masters
• Blush2019 · as Gail
• In Case of Emergency2018 · as Homeless Woman
• Breaking Brooklyn2018 · as Principal Carver
• Beauty Mark2017 · as Ruth Ann
• Camera Obscura2017 · as Det. Dawson
• Crazy Famous2017 · as Mrs. Marcus
• The Light of the Moon2017 · as Kirra
• Catfight2017 · as Carl's Wife
• Kreativ: A Study in Creativity by Alexander Ekman2017 · as Self
• Gold Star2016 · as Deanne
• Fan Girl2015
• The Wolf of Wall Street2013 · as FBI Agent #1
• The Bourne Legacy2012 · as C-Team
• A Wife Alone2012 · as Holly
• Nature Calls2012 · as Leachman's Mother
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close2011 · as Leigh-Anne Black
• Caught2011 · as Mom
• Revolutionary Road2008 · as Woman in Audience
• Chicago 102008 · as Barbara Callender (voice)
• Noise2007 · as Barbara
• The Limbo Room2006 · as Bryce
• Happy End2003 · as Beatrix
• Unconditional Love2002 · as Woman Chosen for Show
• The Next Big Thing2001 · as 'Weltanschauung' Woman
• Ed's Next Move1996 · as Anne (as Cathy Curtin)
• Suspicions1995 · as Bridgette
• The Inheritor1990 · as Minister's Wife
• The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems— · as Pam Creighton
• Raising the Stakes— · as Theresa
• Real, True 100 Percent Love— · as Debra
• A Company of Thieves—
• Old Soul— · as Helen

All TV Shows (23)

• Command Z2023 · as Carol
• Law & Order: Organized Crime2021 · as Ronnie
• Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens2020 · as Dude Ranch Debbie
• The Loudest Voice2019 · as Michelle Hirshman
• MINDHUNTER2017 · as Mrs. Ruth Barnwright
• Insecure2016 · as Joanne
• Bull2016 · as Joyce Magruder
• Stranger Things2016 · as Claudia Henderson
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt2015 · as Administrator
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt2015 · as Coach Tannen
• The Leftovers2014 · as Mrs. Tunney
• The Blacklist2013 · as Connor
• Orange Is the New Black2013 · as Wanda Bell
• Homeland2011 · as Sandy
• Homeland2011 · as Sandy Langmore
• Bestsellers2011 · as Abby
• The Naked Brothers Band2007 · as Crazy Betty
• The Naked Brothers Band2007 · as Betty
• 30 Rock2006 · as Waitress
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Jenna Switzer
• Third Watch1999 · as Zebra
• Sex and the City1998 · as Girl #2
• Law & Order1990 · as Julie Liscomb