The couple met while making the hit Netflix series before marrying in March 2017.

Orange Is the New Black star Samira Wiley, show writer Lauren Morelli file for divorce after 9 years of marriage

The couple met while making the hit Netflix series before marrying in March 2017.

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- *Orange Is the New Black *couple, star Samira Wiley and writer Lauren Morelli, are divorcing.

- EW has confirmed the pair filed for divorce on Friday, Jan. 30.

- The couple met while making the Netflix show in 2012, and later married in March 2017.

*Orange Is the New Black *power couple, star Samira Wiley and writer Lauren Morelli, are getting divorced.

** has confirmed through a representative for Wiley that the couple, who first met while working together on the Emmy-winning Netflix prison comedy in 2012, are separating after nine years of marriage.

Wiley and Morelli began their relationship after meeting on the set of *OITNB*, on which Wiley played fan-favorite character Poussey Washington, while Morelli served as a writer and producer across the show's seven-season run on the streaming platform.**

Lauren Morelli and Samira Wiley in 2019.

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Four years after getting married in March 2017, the former couple welcomed a daughter, George Elizabeth, in April 2021.

Wiley and Morelli maintained in a joint statement that "our lifelong commitment to co-parenting will forever remain" despite filing Friday for divorce, per *Out*.

The pair first announced their engagement in 2016, with Wiley sharing a photo of herself wearing an engagement ring as Morelli smiled beside her.

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"Yes," the caption read, with the post receiving over 320,000 likes at the time.

In October 2017, Wiley told PEOPLE that getting married taught her "that it's not just about you anymore, but about you and your partner as a unit."

She also elaborated on her dynamic with Morelli, joking to the publication, "Lauren is a very organized person that likes to leave on time, whatever that means. She likes to have all her ducks in a row, and I don’t know where half my ducks are!"**

Samira Wiley on 'Orange is the New Black'.

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Wiley similarly shared with fans the spouses' experience with motherhood, as she celebrated George in a social media post detailing their journey toward becoming parents.

"Two years ago this week we humbly asked the universe," Wiley wrote in the post's caption, which showed her standing with Morelli, who held up a small card bearing text that read, "May our family expand, our bond strengthen, our happiness multiply, our faith lead us, and our love remain."

In addition to her work on *Orange Is the New Black*, Wiley went on to win an Emmy for her performance in Hulu's *The Handmaid's Tale*, opposite Elisabeth Moss.

Morelli again partnered with Netflix to create and produce *Tales of the City* in 2019, a miniseries adapted from Armistead Maupin's novels.

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