1. Lena Dunham is an American writer, director, actress, and producer.
59 Facts About Lena Dunham
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Lena Dunham is the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls, for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards.
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Lena Dunham started her career writing, directing, and starring in her semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture, for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.
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Lena Dunham has since written and directed the 2022 films Sharp Stick and Catherine Called Birdy.
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In 2013, Lena Dunham was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
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In 2014, Lena Dunham released her first book, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned".
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In 2015, along with Girls showrunner Jenni Konner, Lena Dunham created the publication Lenny Letter, a feminist online newsletter.
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Lena Dunham briefly appeared in films such as Supporting Characters and This Is 40, and Happy Christmas.
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Lena Dunham voiced Mary in the 2016 film My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Lena Dunham's father, Carroll Dunham, is a painter, and her mother, Laurie Simmons, is an artist and photographer, and a member of The Pictures Generation, known for her use of dolls and dollhouse furniture in her photographs of setup interior scenes.
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Lena Dunham's father is Protestant of mostly English ancestry; whereas her mother is Jewish.
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Lena Dunham attended Friends Seminary before transferring in seventh grade to Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, where she met Tiny Furniture actress and future Girls co-star Jemima Kirke.
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Lena Dunham attended The New School for a year before transferring to Oberlin College, where she graduated in 2008 with a degree in creative writing.
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Lena Dunham has a younger sibling, Cyrus, a 2014 graduate of Brown University, who appeared in Dunham's first film, Creative Nonfiction, and starred in her second film, Tiny Furniture.
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In 2006, she produced Pressure, in which a girl and two friends talk about experiencing an orgasm for the first time, which makes Lena Dunham's character feel pressured to do so as well.
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Lena Dunham was shocked by the backlash and decided to take the video down:.
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In 2007, Lena Dunham starred in a ten-episode web series for Nerve.
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In 2009, Lena Dunham created the Index Magazine web series, Delusional Downtown Divas, which satirized the New York City art scene.
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Lena Dunham was initially rejected by the festival the year before; she re-edited and successfully resubmitted the film.
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Lena Dunham had a career breakthrough with her semi-autobiographical 2010 feature film Tiny Furniture; the film won Best Narrative Feature at South by Southwest Music and Media Conference, and subsequently screened at such festivals as Maryland Film Festival.
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Konner told Vulture's Jada Yuan that she got involved with Lena Dunham because she was an obsessive Tiny Furniture fan:.
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Lena Dunham's star was raised considerably when she was profiled by David Carr in The New York Times; he was later credited with introducing her to Judd Apatow.
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Apatow watched Tiny Furniture, and was surprised Lena Dunham had written and directed the film.
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Lena Dunham herself says she "revere[s] that show just as much as any girl of my generation".
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In late 2012, Lena Dunham signed a $3.5 million deal with Random House to publish her first book.
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That year, Lena Dunham launched A Casual Romance Productions, a production company to develop television and film projects.
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Lena Dunham produced It's Me Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise.
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On February 20,2015, it was reported that Lena Dunham had been cast in a guest role in an episode of the ABC drama series Scandal, which aired March 19,2015.
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In September 2015, Lena Dunham stated that the sixth season of Girls was likely to be the last.
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In 2016, Lena Dunham appeared in her mother's film, My Art, which had its world premiere at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival.
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Lena Dunham voiced Mary in My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, a 2016 American animated teen comedy drama film directed by Dash Shaw.
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Lena Dunham filmed scenes for the film Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, but they were cut from the final film.
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In 2017, Lena Dunham portrayed Valerie Solanas, the real-life radical feminist and SCUM Manifesto author who attempted to murder Andy Warhol in the late 1960s, in American Horror Story: Cult.
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Since 2016, Lena Dunham has been working on a second book that will be published by Random House.
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Lena Dunham added that the act was a response to help herself and the readers in a time of anxiety.
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Lena Dunham directed and served as an executive producer on the first episode of HBO's Industry.
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In 2021, Lena Dunham had a small role in Music, directed by Sia.
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Lena Dunham served as an executive producer on Generation, a dramedy for HBO Max.
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Lena Dunham directed, wrote, and produced her third film, Catherine Called Birdy, an adaption of the children's novel of the same name by Karen Cushman for Working Title Films.
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In December 2023, Netflix announced that Too Much, a new series co-created, written, executive produced, and directed by Lena Dunham, would enter production the following year in the United Kingdom.
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Lena Dunham has appeared on several magazine covers, including Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Popular Mechanics, and Rolling Stone.
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Lena Dunham has received criticism for her production of the film Orgasm Inc.
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On several occasions, Lena Dunham has been accused of making racially insensitive remarks.
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Lena Dunham spoke publicly about the criticism on several occasions; in an interview with IndieWire, she said:.
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In September 2016, Lena Dunham criticized NFL player Odell Beckham Jr.
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Lena Dunham later apologized for her characterization of his interactions and thoughts.
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In December 2016, Lena Dunham declared on a podcast that she wished she had had an abortion, explaining that she wanted to better understand women who have.
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In December 2018, Lena Dunham stated that, contrary to her previous statement, she had no "insider information" that exonerated Murray.
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In October 2018, Lena Dunham was hired to write the screenplay for an untitled film based upon the memoir A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival, by Melissa Fleming, which follows the true story of Doaa Al Zamel, who fled Egypt for Europe and became one of few survivors of a shipwrecked refugee boat, surviving days in open water and supporting herself and two orphaned children with only an inflatable water ring.
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Lena Dunham's hiring received backlash from those who felt that, instead of Lena Dunham, a Syrian woman should have been hired.
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Gravino claimed that Lena Dunham had personally done research on her work and was excited to meet with her.
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However, according to the film's producers, Lena Dunham rejected Froseth's suggestion to approach Gravino, and clarified to Froseth that she had never intended to depict Sarah Jo as autistic.
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In 2012, Lena Dunham began dating Jack Antonoff, the lead guitarist of the band fun.
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In 2018 Lena Dunham entered rehab for an addiction to benzodiazepines.
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In February 2018, Lena Dunham wrote an essay for Vogue about her decision to have a hysterectomy due to endometriosis.
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In July 2020, Lena Dunham reported on Instagram her experience with COVID-19 because she observed people were not taking social distancing seriously.
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In 2014, Lena Dunham was named the Recipient of Horizon Award 2014 by Point Foundation for her support of the gay community.
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In June 2017, Lena Dunham endorsed Jim Johnson, a Democratic New Jersey gubernatorial candidate.
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Later that month, Lena Dunham endorsed Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, in the United Kingdom general election.