Orange Is The New Black: 10 Characters More Interesting Than Piper

By James Hunt /

10. Miss Rosa

A character interesting in both the present of the show and the flashbacks, and one of the most courageous. Rosa is a cancer patient, and one who has long-since accepted that she is going to die of the disease. We learn that before she landed in prison, she was a bank robber alongside three men, two of whom she ended up marrying (both ended up dead). Visiting the hospital for a chemotherapy session, she teams with a young boy also suffering from the illness to steal the wallet of a nurse, one last heist for her to carry out, and you can see how much it revitalises her. It€™s not the end though, as she gets the chance to escape and takes it, riding away from Litchfield in a prison van. Not content with freedom, she takes the chance to settle a score when she spots Vee also escaping, and in the last moments of season 2 runs her down, commenting: €œAlways so rude, that one.€ If that was the last we see of her, then it€™s one hell of a way to go out.