Alysia Reiner (born July 21, 1970) is an American actress and producer. Reiner has appeared in several Off-Broadway plays and won a Obie Award for her performance in An Oak Tree. On-screen, Reiner is best known for her role as Christine Ergarian in the critically acclaimed comedy-drama film, Sideways (2004), as Wendy Parks in the ABC crime-legal drama TV series, How to Get Away with Murder, and as Natalie "Fig" Figueroa in the Netflix comedy drama series, Orange Is the New Black (2013–15).

Career
Theatre
Reiner has appeared in several Off-Broadway works including two Persian-themed plays directed by Abdolhossein Sepanta, focusing on the struggles of Lesbians in Persian culture. One of her early roles was in the 2005 Drama Desk Award-nominated New York premiere of Pentecost, by Tony Award-winning playwright David Edgar. She recently joined Tim Crouch in the Obie Award-winning An Oak Tree at The Barrow Street, and "Jayson with a Y" with The New Group. At The Beckett, she played roles in Anaïs Nin: One of Her Lives and Wasps in Bed. She has been deemed "Off-Broadway Favorite" by Theatremania and was called "priceless" by the New York Times.

Film and television
Reiner has appeared in several films, including Kissing Jessica Stein, The Vicious Kind, Arranged, Schooled, That Awkward Moment and Ruth & Alex. In 2004, she played the role of Christine Erganian, Thomas Haden Church's character's fiancee, in the film Sideways, which won Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. She also had roles in the number of independent films.

On television, Reiner has appeared on The Sopranos, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Drew Carey Show, and White Collar. From 2013 to 2014, Reiner had a recurring role as Natalie Figueroa in the Netflix comedy drama series, Orange Is the New Black. In 2014 she joined the cast of ABC legal drama series, How to Get Away with Murder produced by Shonda Rhimes, in a recurring role of D.A. Wendy Parks, a prosecutor who goes up against Viola Davis' character.

In 2014, Reiner announced that she and writing partner Sarah Megan Thomas will be launching Broad Street Pictures to produce films with strong female roles. The company’s first project is to be a thriller set on Wall Street starring Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus, best known for The Nanny Diaries, to write the screenplay.

Personal life
Reiner is married to actor David Alan Basche. The couple has a daughter, Livia, who was born on December 5, 2008.

Filmography
Film
1999 Row Your Boat
1999 The Stand-In
2000 Little Pieces
2001 Kissing Jessica Stein
2002 Hourly Rates
2004 Sideways
2004 The Three Body Problem
2005 One Last Thing...
2006 A-List
2006 Cycle Unknown
2006 The Narrow Gate
2007 Arranged
2007 Schooled
2008 The Peppermint Tree
2009 The Vicious Kind
2009 The Jacket
2009 Speed Grieving
2012 Backwards
2012 Delivering the Goods
2013 King Theodore Live
2014 That Awkward Moment
2014 The Story of Milo & Annie
2014 Kelly & Cal
2014 Fort Tilden
2014 Revenge of the Green Dragons
2014 5 Flights Up
2014 Primrose Lane
2014 The Girl in the Book
2014 No Letting Go
2015 Ava's Possessions
2015 The Networker
2015 The Other Side


Television
1999 Law & Order
2000 Family Law
2002 The Drew Carey Show
2002 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
2003 Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2004 The Jury
2006 The Sopranos
2006 Love Monkey
2008 The Starter Wife
2009 Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2009 White Collar
2010 Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2010 Law & Order
2011 Blue Bloods
2012 The Exes
2013–present Orange Is the New Black
2014 Hawaii Five-O
2014 How to Get Away with Murder
2015 Bones
2016 Unforgettable
2016 The Mysteries of Laura
2016 Rosewood