OITNB: Who Is The Real Piper And What’s Her Story?

Donna Playing Cleary

While speaking with HuffPost Live, Cleary said, I’m flattered that they picked me out in her [Piper’s] life as such an interesting, charismatic character that they had to make a whole backstory about me. I never imagined I’d be Donna from That ’70s Show. When I watch that part of the series, I watch it as a viewer. I don’t say ‘that’s my life.’…The glasses were a dead giveaway [that Alex is me], so I immediately recognized it in the commercial. Taylor Schilling does a great job of being Piper. Piper’s a little less deer in the headlights, though.”

Donna Playing Cleary