Francesca Curran is a 23-year-old NYC-based actress born and raised in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA, and is best known for her compelling role as Helen Van Maele ("Skinhead Helen") in Season 4 of Netflix's hit series, "Orange Is The New Black." Curran plays an interesting, tattooed white supremacist and is much a part of the new story line in the new season revolving around the over-crowding prison epidemic and confrontation of race issues. She is an alumna of The American Musical and Dramatics Academy trained in Musical Theater. She also appeared as the star of Warner Bra's commercial, "Girls Gone Comfortable."