I saw my billboard and said, 'Dad, I made it': OITNB's Danielle Brooks on success

By Danielle Brooks
Updated January 22 2017 - 12:08pm, first published January 16 2017 - 12:39pm
The cast of <i>Orange is the New Black</i>.
The cast of <i>Orange is the New Black</i>.

It was June 2012, and I had just sped out of the crowded subway into a sea of people on 34th Street. I stopped to collect myself and to figure out which way I needed to walk to get to my next errand. I was somewhere between Seventh and Eighth avenues and couldn't see the street sign from that far away, so I turned my head to the right. Lo and behold, there it was, right above H&M: a beautiful collage of 13 diverse faces for the new hit television series Orange Is the New Black, with me among them.

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