Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein is an American actress and filmmaker.
34 Facts About Natasha Lyonne
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Natasha Lyonne is known for playing Nicky Nichols on the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress, and for her portrayal of Nadia Vulvokov on the Netflix series Russian Doll, which she co-created, executive produces, writes, and directs.
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Natasha Lyonne was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.
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Natasha Lyonne made her feature film debut in 1986, with a small, uncredited appearance in Heartburn.
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Natasha Lyonne voiced Merton in the animated film DC League of Super-Pets.
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Natasha Lyonne was born in New York City, the daughter of Ivette Buchinger and Aaron Braunstein, a boxing promoter, race car driver and radio host.
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Natasha Lyonne's parents were from Orthodox Jewish families, and she was raised Orthodox.
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Natasha Lyonne's mother was born in Paris, France, to Hungarian-Jewish parents who were Holocaust survivors.
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Natasha Lyonne lived the first eight years of her life in Great Neck, New York.
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Natasha Lyonne's parents divorced, and Lyonne and her older brother, Adam, returned to the United States with their mother.
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Natasha Lyonne grew up on the Upper East Side, where she felt she was an outcast.
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Natasha Lyonne's mother moved their family to Miami, where Lyonne attended Miami Country Day School.
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Natasha Lyonne did not graduate from high school, leaving before her senior year to attend a film program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, which she attended for a short time, studying film and philosophy.
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Natasha Lyonne was estranged from her father, who was a Democratic candidate for New York City Council for the sixth District of Manhattan in 2013, and lived on the Upper West Side until his death in October 2014.
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Natasha Lyonne has said she is not close to her mother and has essentially lived independently of her family since age 16.
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At age 16, Natasha Lyonne was cast in the Woody Allen-directed Everyone Says I Love You.
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Natasha Lyonne made a cameo appearance as herself in the 2022 Netflix film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.
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Natasha Lyonne made her New York stage debut in the award-winning production of Mike Leigh's Two Thousand Years by The New Group.
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Natasha Lyonne was part of the original cast of the award-winning Love, Loss, and What I Wore, a play by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, based on the book by Ilene Beckerman.
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In 2010, Natasha Lyonne received positive reviews for her performance in Kim Rosenstock's comedy Tigers Be Still at the Roundabout Theatre Company: "a thorough delight in the flat-out funniest role, the grief-crazed Grace, so deeply immersed in self-pity that she has cast aside any attempts at decorum".
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In 2011, Natasha Lyonne starred opposite Ethan Hawke and Ann Dowd in New Group's production of Tommy Nohilly's Blood from a Stone.
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Natasha Lyonne received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014, and was twice awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, along with her co-stars.
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In 2014, Natasha Lyonne was cast in Amy Poehler's comedy pilot Old Soul, directed by David Wain.
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Natasha Lyonne has appeared as various characters on IFC's comedy series Portlandia.
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Natasha Lyonne has voiced characters on The Simpsons and Netflix's Big Mouth.
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In 2017, Natasha Lyonne was approached by Kenzo's creative directors Carol Lim and Humberto Leon to direct the fifth installment in their short film series.
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Natasha Lyonne is credited as the lead actress and is one of the series's executive producers with directorial and writing credits.
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Natasha Lyonne produces Russian Doll, Poker Face, Loot, and the upcoming animated series The Hospital.
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When she was 18, Natasha Lyonne used the paycheck from her work on Everyone Says I Love You to rent a small apartment near Gramercy Park.
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In 2005, Natasha Lyonne was admitted to Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan, suffering from hepatitis C, infective endocarditis, and a collapsed lung; she was undergoing methadone treatment for heroin addiction.
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Natasha Lyonne's lawyer said an emergency had arisen but did not give details.
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Later that year, Natasha Lyonne was admitted to a drug and alcohol treatment center, and she appeared in court afterward.
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Natasha Lyonne underwent open-heart surgery in 2012 to correct heart valve damage caused by her heart infection, which could have resulted in sudden death if untreated.
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Natasha Lyonne recovered from the surgery and discussed her past health problems on The Rosie Show in March 2012.