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Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham 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…
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entertainment · American writer and actress (born 1986) · actor · film director · screenwriter · film producer · writer · film actor · television actor · voice actor · showrunner · television producer · also Lena Dunham, Dunham
Born 13 May 1986 · Q288359
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thrilled to be working with and learning from the brilliant minds at Random House, and to be among their incredible roster of authors. I look forward to digging deep with Andy and co. to produce the most thoughtful and personal book I can.
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“thrilled to be working with and learning from the brilliant minds at Random House, and to be among their incredible roster of authors. I look forward to digging deep with Andy and co. to produce the most thoughtful and personal book I can.”
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“revere[s] that show just as much as any girl of my generation”
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Vogue: Lena Dunham’s Hairless Dogs Have Taught Her to Keep Calm and Carry On
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The A.V. Club: Lena Dunham and Carly Rae Jepsen's 10 Things I Hate About You musical sets Broadway opening
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Deadline: Lena Dunham & Carly Rae Jepsen’s ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ Heading To Broadway In 2027
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Public attention spiked: 18,126 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.6× the usual 5,082, with 0 article edits.
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Just one month before Dunham's much-hyped 40th birthday
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Dunham moderated the launch event for Jennette McCurdy's debut novel, Half His Age, at The Town Hall in NYC
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And topped The New York Times Best Seller list
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In her 2026 memoir Famesick, Dunham revealed that she was molested as a child by a babysitter.
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2025· 1 entry
Created the Netflix series Too Much starring Megan Stalter
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2022· 2 entries
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Dunham's second feature film, Sharp Stick, starring Kristine Froseth, Dunham, and Jon Bernthal, was released to mixed reviews
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2021· 1 entry
Dunham had a small role in Music, directed by Sia
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2019· 3 entries
Dunham revealed that she has Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (EDS)
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Dunham and Alissa Bennett started a podcast called The C-Word Podcast produced by Luminary
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In 2019, Dunham revealed that she has Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (EDS).
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2018· 2 entries
The series held a panel at the Television Critics Association's annual summer press tour featuring executive producer Jenni Konner and cast member Jennifer Garner
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Dunham was diagnosed with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) as a child, and continued to take a low dose of an anxiolytic (Klonopin) to relieve her anxiety until 2018.
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2017· 3 entries
Leaving a total of 62 episodes in the series
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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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Portrayed Valerie Solanas in American Horror Story: Cult
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2016· 2 entries
“I can survive staying in this country, MY country, to fight and love and use my embarrassment of blessings to do what”
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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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2015· 4 entries
It was reported that 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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Days before the premiere of the fourth season, Girls was renewed for a fifth season, despite dwindling viewership
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Dunham and Jenni Konner co-founded Lenny Letter, a feminist online newsletter
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Along with Girls showrunner Jenni Konner, Dunham created the publication Lenny Letter, a feminist online newsletter
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2014· 3 entries
Dunham did a book signing and interview at Barnes and Noble in New York's Union Square
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Dunham was named the Recipient of Horizon Award 2014 by Point Foundation for her support of the gay community
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Dunham released her first book, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
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2013· 1 entry
Dunham was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world
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2012· 3 entries
Awarded Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series for Tiny Furniture (2012).
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Posting a statement that said, "While our first instinct is to listen to every woman's story, our insider knowledge of Murray's situation makes us confident that sadly this accusation is one of the 3% of assault cases th
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Dunham appeared in a video advertisement promoting President Barack Obama's reelection, delivering a monologue, which, according to a blog quoted in The Atlantic, tried to "get the youth vote by comparing voting for the
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Film Independent Spirit Awards for Tiny Furniture (2011).
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2010· 1 entry
To screen her film Tiny Furniture at the Jerusalem Film Festival and in 2012 toured Israel and Palestinian territories, visiting East Jerusalem, the Mount of Olives, and the Dead Sea
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2009· 2 entries
Dunham created the Index Magazine web series, Delusional Downtown Divas, which satirized the New York City art scene
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Dunham premiered Creative Nonfiction — a comedy where she plays Ella, a college student struggling to complete a screenplay — at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas
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2008· 1 entry
Studied at Oberlin College (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
Dunham starred in a ten-episode web series for Nerve
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2006· 1 entry
Produced Pressure, in which a girl and two friends talk about experiencing an orgasm for the first time, which makes Dunham's character feel pressured to do so as well
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1998· 1 entry
“Gossip Girl was teens duking it out on the Upper East Side and Sex and the City was women who [had] figured out work and friends and now want to nail romance and family life. There was this”
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1986· 2 entries
Born 1986-05-13.
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“s much-hyped 40th birthday. On January 20, 2026, Dunham moderated the launch event for Jennette McCurdy”
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