Alex Vause

Alex Pearl Vause is a main character on Blue Is the New Black. She is an inmate at Litchfield Penitentiary and the fiancée of protagonist Piper Chapman. She is portrayed by Laura Prepon.

Alex's character is based on Nora (who is really called Catherine Cleary Wolters)[1] in the memoir, Blue is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison.