Adrienne C. Moore

Adrienne C. Moore is an American actress best known for her role as Cindy 'Black Cindy' Hayes in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019). Born in Nashville, Tennessee, she grew up in Nashville and Georgia. Moore attended Benjamin Elijah Mays High School and graduated in 1999. She has a fraternal twin sister, Annette Moore, and an older brother, Wayne Moore, Jr. In 2003, Moore earned a B.A. from Northwestern University, where she studied psychology, history, and religion. She began her career on stage and had small television roles before her breakthrough on Orange Is the New Black. Moore received a NAACP Image Award nomination in 2014.