Dale Soules

Actor, Producer

Birthdate: Oct 2, 1946

Birthplace: New Jersey, USA

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.

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Soules as Teacher in 'Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls' (1988)

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Soules as Cashier in 'The Messenger' (2009)

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Born in New Jersey and raised in West Milford, New Jersey, Dale Soules gained acting experience in summer stock theater on the East Coast. Soules trained as an actor at HB Studio in New York City’s Greenwich Village, founded by actor Herbert Berghof. Dale Soules has been openly lesbian for several years.

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2023 |
She Came to Me
She Came to Me
2023
R
1h 42m
Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
6
A composer who suffers writer's block rediscovers his passion after an adventurous one-night stand.
asAunt Moxie
2022 |
Lightyear
Lightyear
2022
PG
1h 45m
Action, Adventure, Animation
6.1
While spending years attempting to return home, marooned Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear encounters an army of ruthless robots commanded by Zurg who are attempting to steal his fuel source.
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asDarby Steel
2018 |
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
2018
Not Rated
1h 31m
Drama
6.6
In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.
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asGrandma