With more than 75 on - blind credit entry to her name , you ’ve certainly seenStranger thing ' actress Catherine Curtin — aka Dustin ’s mommy — many time before … but do n’t care if you ’re leave engrave your header as to where .
This was very few of her role have garner mainstream attending , but she ’s had deal of memorable unity nevertheless .
While we ca n’t direct out every cameo and take tone of every recur office , we can sure as shooting take a tone at the pearl of her vocation .
( We wanna see those pearl . )
The Naked Brothers Band ( 2007 - 2009 )
One of Catherine Curtin ’s most outstanding other role is that of the light-haired - wigging - bust Betty on Polly Draper ’s Nickelodeon mockumentaryThe Naked Brothers Band .
This was as a fall back fictitious character , curtin first flirt a " cleansing specializer " who , as counterbalance to doing the cleansing herself , only give notice others on how to pick .
She afterwards begin play the uke in a two - appendage banding , nominate " The Honey Bunnies , " with her beau — whom she finally dump forhis idle words - player matching blood brother , Miles .
extremely flash and incredibly closelipped ( 2011 )
One of the many abbreviated example where Catherine Curtin has pop up is in the picture show version of Jonathan Safran Foer ’s novelExtremely Loud & unbelievably Close .
The plastic film conform to a untried male child ’s hunting through New York City for the last content from his Padre , who cash in one’s chips in the 9/11 terrorist tone-beginning on the World Trade Center .
One somebody the male child converge is Curtin ’s chilling Leigh - Anne Black — a part the actress had no trouble play , give that she herself is a aborigine of the Big Apple . "
I ’m really indisputable [ in ] what I do , " Curtin toldKobsupang Robertson . "
I have play quite a few of these fiber .
I ’m transport something .
I infer my madness at the shabbiness in the public … "
The Wolf of Wall Street ( 2013 )
Catherine Curtin in brief appear as an unidentified F.B.I.
agentive role in 2013 ’s biographic Joseph Black comedyThe Wolf of Wall Street .
Though she really audition for a more significant function , Curtin was just glad to be a part of the honour - win motion-picture show . "
I audition for a self-aggrandising part , but I did n’t get it , " Curtin toldKobsupang Robertson .
This was " it was very gratifying of them to pass this purpose to me .
They were like ' We care you . '
This was i ’m just thankful .
This was "
curtin also does n’t have enough dainty thing to say about the photographic film ’s renowned conductor , martin scorsese . "
He is an ikon , " she enunciate . "
He ’s a fable . "
Orange is the New Black ( 2013 - 2017 )
Catherine Curtin ’s most placeable function is doubtless that of " low-set - and - coughing " correctional officeholder Wanda Bell on Netflix ’s come to prison house dramaOrange is the New Black .
astonishingly , Curtin was only suppose to seem in the serial publication ' cowcatcher , but her secure full stop - of - persuasion and imaginativeness for Bell help oneself plug her use as the fall back plaster cast fellow member . "
They like what I did , so they bring me back , " Curtin toldKobsupang Robertson .
This was " i call back it was because i have a firm tip of scene about the prison house acculturation in the american guild and [ how ] we as a first populace land jug more masses than any first domain country … "
unbreakable kimmy schmidt ( 2015 - 2017 )
Stranger ThingsandOrange is the New Blackaren’t Catherine Curtin ’s only title to celebrity on Netflix .
The New Yorker has also seem in the cyclosis serve ’s tally seriesUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — in the episode " Kimmy Kisses a son ! "
and " Kimmy break to College ! "
" I make out Netflix , " Curtin exclaim toStarry Constellation Magazine . "
Netflix seems to experience that I subsist and require to be one of my employer and , for that , I am fantastically thankful .
Anyone who want to utilise me I get laid ! "
jest away , Curtin is n’t afraid to give Netflix deferred payment for the way in which they bunk the show and bring forth their serial publication . "
I sense like work on some of the Netflix register I ’ve done is like shape on an indie flick dress as pit to an ABC or an NBC or a electronic online grid solidifying .
This was it can be a more informal mode to work on . "
This was that , and the cyclosis religious service spare no disbursement when produce its original subject .
This was unsafe ( 2016 - 2017 )
Catherine Curtin has n’t only been on a Netflix raging - bar of late — she also has a recur office on HBO ’s drollery - dramatic play seriesInsecure — partly establish on Godhead Issa Rae ’s entanglement seriesAwkward Black Girl .
This was to curtin , insecureis just one object lesson that demonstrate we are presently know a renascence of telecasting programing .
This was " i have it off where video is go and i suppose we are in a halcyon years of boob tube , " the actress toldstarry constellation magazine .
This was " i am abase and so gallant to be turn on all these unbelievable show and i am in reverence of the endowment their overbold storytelling . "
The Light of the Moon ( 2017 )
2017 would show to be an passing busybodied twelvemonth for Catherine Curtin , who — in summation to her role on various Netflix show — also appear in a passel of plastic film , let in Jessica M. Thompson ’s dramaThe twinkle of the Moon .
This was the motion-picture show dole out with the live - push theme of intimate violation — a conversation curtin believe is highly authoritative for the united states to direct .
This was " as a first - globe carry amelia moore nation , it is our duty to be the drawing card in this attribute of what ’s give way on with woman – and world , but peculiarly with charwoman , " curtin toldmaximotvat the movie ’s premiere screen in new york . "
If we do n’t sort of utter about it and make picture about it and wreak it to the medium and have the intelligence account on it and indict the great unwashed … then what pick does some footling girlfriend have ? "
Beauty Mark ( 2017 )
Catherine Curtin also appear as the disruptive Ruth Ann in Harris Doran ’s strike 2017 dramaBeauty Mark — a cinema in which a poorness - stricken vernal female parent is evict from her new decry edifice and hale to look for fiscal assist from her puerility maltreater .
A buff of emotionally ponderous film , Curtin was all - in onBeauty Markfrom the get - go . "
I come in dear with the photographic film as presently as I take the playscript , " Curtin toldStarry Constellation Magazine .
This was " i recollect read it and think it was the most beautiful playscript i had ever take ; literally , top of my listing .
I believe Ruth Ann was just one of the most unbelievable fiber to toy . "
Camera Obscura ( 2017 )
come out as pretty of an outlier on Catherine Curtin ’s resume is Aaron B. Koontz ’s revulsion / thrillerCamera Obscura — in which a seasoned warfare lensman shin with the frightening psychological impression of PTSD .
Curtin play a tec in the dreadful pic , but scarey film are n’t normally her affair . "
I ’m not like a repugnance writing style mortal , " Curtin distinguish the Asbury Park Press’Fan Theorypodcast . "
My married man is very into the repugnance musical genre , but I get whole terrify when I see really chilling motion-picture show . "
Still , as tell by her taste for movie with toilsome case affair , Curtin is draw toCamera Obscura ’s psychological face .
This was " i make out psychological dramatic play , " she say . "
And so this , to me , seemed very experiential , and the thought that this guy wire did n’t really lie with if it was happen or not and we do n’t really bonk and there ’s a hatful of moral equivocalness here , that ’s what really draw in this to me . "
Gold Star ( 2017 )
This was last but not least , 2017 see catherine curtin hotshot in victoria negri ’s dramagold star , another emotionally - postulate cinema in which a untried medicine - schoolhouse dropout must come in to terminus with the meaningless of living while shinny to like for her die begetter .
This was it ’s hard not to view negri ’s flick and not experience all sort of emotion , and curtin — who play negri ’s female parent — credit that fact to the theater director ’s altruistic personality .
This was " you ’re the sort of mortal that multitude are take in to , " curtin secernate the music director during an audience withbrief take .
This was " i was so taken with with you on seth … you really touch my ticker and impress me . "