For actress, author Laura Prepon || Moms are the Best Survival
For actress, author Laura Prepon, 'Mom Squads' are the new black She became a TV star on That '70s Show and helped popularize streaming with Netflix's Orange Is the New Black. Her new focus: A life-hacking guide for moms. "It takes a village" isn't just a saying to Laura Prepon. The actress and director has made a career out of playing strong, smart, independent women, first as the confident, feminist teenage Donna Pinciotti on That '70s Show and then as the "impossibly stylish and cool" lesbian drug dealer Alex Vause in the groundbreaking Orange Is the New Black. It's not hard to understand why she was so successful playing those characters. The New Jersey native describes herself as "the tough one who knows how to handle a situation" and admits to a love of "high-stress fun" that's included climbing Mount Kilimanjaro without training on two weeks notice, swimming with sharks and getting so into poker tha