Actress Chimo stars for friends as wedding minister

Actress Chimo stars for friends as wedding minister

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Tracee Chimo, star of Netflix's 'Orange Is the New Black,' moonlights as a wedding minister.

The ever-versatile actress Tracee Chimo is juggling a few fictional characters â€" an architect in the film “Gods Behaving Badly,” a welder in the Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black,” and a holier-than-thou cousin in “Bad Jews.”

But it’s a new real-life role that strikes closest to her heart. It reminds us how bona fide bonds form during the creation of make-believe.

“I am now a minister, thanks to the Universal Life Church,” says Chimo. She took the plunge to officiate at the wedding of friends David Flores and Donald Codden.

The ceremony is on Monday at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Off-Broadway home. Last year Chimo met Flores, one of the house managers, while appearing there in “Bad Jews,” which is being remounted in September. “We got close during the run. After the play closed, David and Donny asked if I would marry them.”

“We asked Tracee because we felt like she was the best fit for us as a couple,” Flores says. He added that her “great energy” would unite them on just the right note.

Chimo, who’s “spiritual, not religious,” was initially gobsmacked. Then she got busy â€" applying online, filling out forms and, finally, sealing the deal at City Hall. She wrote her name there, she says, “in an Gandalf-like book. I was surrounded by brides and grooms as I signed.”

More nuptials are on her to-do list. Her Astoria, Queens, roommates, Bekah Coulter and Harry LaCoste, both teachers, will wed in July.

“I’m the maid of honor,” says Chimo. “Not the minister.”