Last we saw Dascha Polanco’s semi-good-girl inmate character ... then helped incite the Litchfield prison riot by popping a guard with a pistol. When Season 6 commences on July 27, she ...

Dascha Polanco, 33, plays Dayanara Diaz on the popular series, an inmate at Litchfield Penitentiary who carries on a torrid affair with a guard. On the show, she’s serving a prison stint for drugs.

Dascha Polanco talks with THR about what propelled ... “Knowing that it’s a guard on the floor, especially, she has resentment and that really flipped that switch.” With all signs pointing ...

Dayanara Diaz (Dascha Polanco), who is better known as Daya within ... I met a woman who had a relationship with a guard while she was incarcerated. She remembers that he fell so in love with ...

And they all circulate around Dascha Polanco’s character of Dayanara. Let’s first talk about where we last left off. Dayanara — otherwise known as Daya — was holding a gun up to a guard ...

Knowing that it’s a guard on the floor ... And you’re probably gonna fuck up my kid.” Damn. Polanco explains that, with Aleida gone and her life in shambles, Daya has to finally grow ...

And Dascha Polanco swapped her basketball jersey for ... funding cuts, overcrowding and guard brutality in jails. Before her budding acting career took off, Dascha worked in the medical field ...

But now, actor Dascha Polanco has revealed Daya's fate in Orange ... The last time the two are on-screen, a guard is attempting to remove Aleida from a nearly asphyxiated Daya, and it's easy ...

The actress became a grandma when her daughter Dasany Kristal Gonzalez welcomed son Dior in October Dascha Polanco is loving ...

The 'In the Heights' alum welcomed her daughter Dasany Kristal Gonzalez when she was 17 years old Jason Mendez/Getty Dascha Polanco announced that she is going to be a grandma at 40! Last week ...