Dascha Polanco

Dascha Polanco , born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn, is best known for her SAG Award-winning performance as Dayanara Diaz in the Netflix hit show Orange Is the New Black . Recently, Dascha can be seen in Ava DuVernay's Emmy Award-winning Netflix series When They See Us and Ryan Murphy's FX anthology series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story . Her upcoming work includes Lin-Manuel Miranda's Feature Film Project In the Heights .

Dascha Polanco , born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn, is best known for her SAG Award-winning performance as Dayanara Diaz in the Netflix hit show Orange Is the New Black . Recently, Dascha can be seen in Ava DuVernay's Emmy Award-winning Netflix series When They See Us and Ryan Murphy's FX anthology series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story . Her upcoming work includes Lin-Manuel Miranda's Feature Film Project In the Heights . See less