Lena Dunham
Directing
Born 1986-05-13
New York, New York, USA
90 credits
Directors Guild of America 1
Film Independent Spirit Awards 1
Awards
Won 1 Directors Guild of America Award
Directors Guild of America 1 won
- 2012 Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series Won Tiny Furniture
Film Independent Spirit Awards 1 won
- 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards Won Tiny Furniture
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Lena Dunham (/ˈliːnə ˈdʌnəm/; born May 13, 1986) is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. Dunham also directed several episodes of Girls and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series. She started her career writing, directing, and starring in her semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. She has since written and directed the 2022 films Sharp Stick and Catherine Called Birdy.
In 2013, Dunham was included in the annual Time100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2014, Dunham released her first book, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned". In 2015, along with Girls showrunner Jenni Konner, Dunham created the publication Lenny Letter, a feminist online newsletter. The publication ran for three years before its discontinuation in late 2018.
Dunham briefly appeared in films such as Supporting Characters, This Is 40 (2012), and Happy Christmas (2014). She voiced Mary in the 2016 film My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Aside from Girls, she has played guest roles on television in Scandal and The Simpsons (both 2015). In 2017, she portrayed Valerie Solanas in American Horror Story: Cult.
Dunham's work and her outspoken presence on social media and in interviews have attracted significant controversy, praise, criticism, and media scrutiny throughout her career.
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Filmography
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Directing
8 credits
Acting
47 credits
The Simpsons
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The Daily Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Kelly Clarkson Show
American Horror Story
Saturday Night Live
Conan
The Graham Norton Show
RuPaul's Drag Race
The View
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Scandal
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Girls
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
This Is 40
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Too Much
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
Billy on the Street
Mildred Pierce
Visible: Out on Television
Sharp Stick
The Stand In
The House of the Devil
7 Days in Hell
Music
The Innkeepers
This Changes Everything
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
Side by Side
Don't Think Twice
Happy Christmas
I Wish You All the Best
Treasure
100 Years
Gavin & Stacey: A Fond Farewell
PressPausePlay
Tiny Furniture
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Sky
Everything Is Copy
Producing
13 credits
Industry
Girls
Too Much
Genera+ion
Sharp Stick
Camping
Notice Me
Choked
Catherine Called Birdy
Good Sex
Treasure
100 Years
Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste
Writing
9 credits
Girls
Too Much
Genera+ion
Sharp Stick
Camping
Catherine Called Birdy
Good Sex
Nobody Walks
Tiny Furniture
Other credits
4 credits
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