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.

Filmography

• 2026A Company of Thieves
• 2026Plucked — Maggie
• 2025Bad Shabbos — Beth
• 2025End Meeting
• 2025Floating Carousel — Carla
• 2025Human Affairs — Peggy
• 2025Long Pork — Angela
• 2025Pretty Thing — Peggy
• 2024Founders Day — Commissioner Peterson
• 2024If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing — Carrie
• 2024Poof — Paula
• 2024Regarding Us — Betsy
• 2024Revelation — Lisa, Executive Producer
• 2024Saturday Night — Joan Carbunkle
• 2024The Disruptors — Sue Kerrigan
• 2024The Easy Kind — Meg
• 2024Works of Mercy — Mallory
• 2024Yaniv — Principal O'Donnell
• 2023Benji's Hour — Susan, Executive Producer
• 2023Brenda and Billy and the Pothos Plant — Mother
• Command Z — Carol
• 2023Dope King — Luca
• 2023Galapagos — Mrs. Wilson
• 2023Hangdog — Buffy
• 2023Rabbit Hole — Denise
• 2023Ramona at Midlife — Julie
• 2023Toe Tag
• 2023Works of Mercy
• 202218½ — Lena
• 2022A Shot Through the Wall — Cynthia Kostas
• 2022F^¢K '€M R!GHT B@¢K — Sheila
• 2022Launch at Paradise — Dr. Barget
• 2022Lie Hard
• 2021Are You Happy Now — Norma
• 2021Good Grief — Aunt Karen
• 2021Kendra and Beth — Ada
• Law & Order: Organized Crime — Ronnie
• 2021New Flesh for the Old Ceremony
• 2021The Surrogate — Sarah Friedberg
• 2021Werewolves Within — Jeanine Sherman
• 2021Worth — Joan
• Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens — Dude Ranch Debbie
• 2020Chemical Hearts — Sarah Sawyer
• 2020First One In — Jane
• 2020Gets Good Light
• 2020Hung Up — Mrs. Squires
• 2020Inside the Rain — Nancy Glass
• 2020The Artist's Wife — Joyce
• 2020The Half of It — Colleen Munsky
• 2020Triple Threat — Audrey Williamson
• 2020What Breaks the Ice — Elaine
• 2019Bad Education — Judy Shapiro
• 2019Blush — Gail
• 2019Hooked — Rainey Masters
• 2019Mad? — Simone
• 2019The Lost Weekend — Aunt Janice
• The Loudest Voice — Michelle Hirshman
• 2018Breaking Brooklyn — Principal Carver
• 2018In Case of Emergency — Homeless Woman
• 2017Beauty Mark — Ruth Ann
• 2017Camera Obscura — Det. Dawson
• 2017Catfight — Carl's Wife
• 2017Crazy Famous — Mrs. Marcus
• MINDHUNTER — Mrs. Ruth Barnwright
• 2017The Light of the Moon — Kirra
• Bull — Joyce Magruder
• 2016Gold Star — Deanne
• Insecure — Joanne
• Stranger Things — Claudia Henderson
• 2015Fan Girl
• Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — Administrator, Coach Tannen
• The Leftovers — Mrs. Tunney
• Orange Is the New Black — Wanda Bell
• The Blacklist — Connor
• 2013The Wolf of Wall Street — FBI Agent #1
• 2012A Wife Alone — Holly
• 2012Nature Calls — Leachman's Mother
• 2012The Bourne Legacy — C-Team
• Bestsellers — Abby
• 2011Caught — Mom
• 2011Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close — Leigh-Anne Black
• Homeland — Sandy, Sandy Langmore
• 2008Chicago 10 — Barbara Callender (voice)
• 2008Revolutionary Road — Woman in Audience
• 2007Noise — Barbara
• The Naked Brothers Band — Crazy Betty
• 30 Rock — Waitress
• 2006The Limbo Room — Bryce
• 2003Happy End — Beatrix
• 2002Unconditional Love — Woman Chosen for Show
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Jenna Switzer
• 2001The Next Big Thing — 'Weltanschauung' Woman
• Third Watch — Zebra
• Sex and the City — Girl #2
• 1996Ed's Next Move — Anne (as Cathy Curtin)
• 1995Suspicions — Bridgette
• Law & Order — Julie Liscomb
• 1990The Inheritor — Minister's Wife
• Governors Island — Carla
• Listen Linda — Patty
• Miles Away — Jackie
• Old Soul — Helen, Executive Producer
• Raising the Stakes — Theresa
• Real, True 100 Percent Love — Debra
• The Next Big One: A Comedy with Three Potential Problems — Pam Creighton

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2017Kreativ: A Study in Creativity by Alexander Ekman — Self