Beth Dover (born August 29, 1978) is an American actress best known for her role of Linda Ferguson on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. Dover also appears in Comedy Central's Another Period and Netflix's Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later. Regarding her performance as Linda Ferguson in Orange Is the New Black, Dover describes her character as a villain or an antihero remarking, "It's really fun to play a person that lives by a different code of ethics than I do."