While she is most known for her fan-favorite Orange is the New Black character, the best Taryn Manning TV shows and movies reveal she has a much wider range than she revealed during her tenure as Litchfield inmate Pennsatucky. Born in Virginia in 1978, Taryn Manning has been a professional performer since 1994, though it took several decades for her career as an actor to fully gain momentum. Her upbringing may have been tragic, having grown up in a trailer park and losing her father to suicide at a young age, but this didn’t stop Manning from pursuing her dreams.