Personal details
Born:
- Birthday: 1986-05-13
- Born Place: New York, New York, USA
Also Known As:
莉娜·杜汉姆, لینا دانهام
Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham is an acclaimed American actress, writer, director, and producer, best known for creating, writing, and starring in the groundbreaking HBO series Girls (2012–2017), a project that cemented her status as a prominent voice of the millennial generation. Born on May 13, 1986, in New York City to artist parents, she began creating short independent films during her time at Oberlin College, where she graduated in 2008 with a degree in creative writing. Her career breakthrough came with her second feature film, Tiny Furniture (2010), a semi-autobiographical, low-budget indie that she wrote, directed, and starred in, which won Best Narrative Feature at South by Southwest. This success led to her collaboration with producer Judd Apatow on Girls, where she served as a lead actor, director, writer, and executive producer, earning multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and becoming the first woman to win a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series. Beyond television, Dunham is an accomplished author, publishing the New York Times Bestseller, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" (2014). More recently, she wrote and directed the feature films Sharp Stick (2022) and Catherine Called Birdy (2022), the latter an adaptation of a children's novel, and she is set to write, direct, and produce the upcoming Netflix series Too Much. Known for her candid, often controversial, and feminist perspective on sex, body image, and the struggles of young adulthood, Dunham continues to work across film, television, and literature.
