Lena Dunham

Birthday: 13 May 1986, New York City, New York, USA

Height: 160 cm

New Yorker Lena Dunham is the daughter of a painter, Carroll Dunham and Laurie Simmons, a designer and photographer. Dunham was educated at Oberlin College, Ohio, graduating with a creative writing degree. It was while at Oberlin that she began writing shorts and feature films. In 2009, Dunham created the web series Delusional Downtown Divas (2009), which gained a cult following.Also in 2009, Dunham released Creative Nonfiction (2009), her first feature film. She went on to write, direct and star in Tiny Furniture (2010), which scored two Independent Spirit Award nominations. In 2012, Dunham came to the attention of a wider audience with the HBO series Girls (2012) created by and starring Dunham and executive produced by Judd Apatow. Show less «

I was constantly preparing for auditions in a way that was crazy... and then I'd literally get cast ...Show more »

I was constantly preparing for auditions in a way that was crazy... and then I'd literally get cast as, like, a bouncing ball or a fat man or a security guard. Show less «

I've started to get used to people feeling like they already know me when they meet me. I've obvious...Show more »

I've started to get used to people feeling like they already know me when they meet me. I've obviously only experienced it within the past year of my life, but it's really interesting to have so many people who you're not familiar with act familiar with you. So you do have to come up with a strategy for how to handle that, and mine has been to try to match that familiarity by being familiar back. The only flip side to that has been that I've had this thing happen where I've been really familiar with someone and they will feel like we've started a close friendship, and then I'll feel like I've disappointed them in some way by having a boundary in my life. Show less «

Sorry I'm late. My acupuncturist pushed everything a half an hour, and he has me convinced that if I...Show more »

Sorry I'm late. My acupuncturist pushed everything a half an hour, and he has me convinced that if I don't do acupuncture, then something terrible is going to befall me. Show less «

Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who...Show more »

Anne Hathaway is a feminist and she has amazing teeth. Let's save our bad attitudes for the ones who aren't advancing the cause. Show less «

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way, and then...Show more »

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way, and then you hit your head on something. Show less «

[on body image] It completely sickens me what our culture is doing to women. Last week I wore a big ...Show more »

[on body image] It completely sickens me what our culture is doing to women. Last week I wore a big top and little shorts and a bunch of stuff came out saying I was without pants. 'The No-Pants Look,' it said. And I didn't go out without pants, I had shorts on...If Olivia Wilde had gone to a party with a big silky top and little shorts she might have been told her outfit was cute...What it was really: 'Why did you show us your thighs'? Show less «

I'm an unreliable narrator. Because I add an invented detail to almost every story I tell about my m...Show more »

I'm an unreliable narrator. Because I add an invented detail to almost every story I tell about my mother. Because my sister claims every memory we 'share' has been fabricated by me to impress a crowd. Show less «

It felt like some weird career puberty, like how people you start to be flirty with before you notic...Show more »

It felt like some weird career puberty, like how people you start to be flirty with before you notice your own breasts. I was being treated in a more adult way before I even understood why or how. Show less «

A big part of feminism is making room for other women to make choices you don't necessarily agree wi...Show more »

A big part of feminism is making room for other women to make choices you don't necessarily agree with. Show less «

I always felt like it was really special to have parents who were artists and to live the kind of li...Show more »

I always felt like it was really special to have parents who were artists and to live the kind of life that we lived... I thought there was a kind of romance to it. Show less «

[on the criticism of the lack of racial diversity on Girls (2012)] It was the elephant in the corner...Show more »

[on the criticism of the lack of racial diversity on Girls (2012)] It was the elephant in the corner of the room ... I felt like people were scared to talk about it [because] they'd get my racist juice all over them ... The argument there are not enough minority characters to represent New York-that I couldn't argue against. What I didn't like was the angle that 'therefore you are a racist, you are raised by racists, you come from a world of class and privilege.' Show less «

There are definitely people who feel like the characters on "Girls" are intolerably in their own hea...Show more »

There are definitely people who feel like the characters on "Girls" are intolerably in their own heads and they don't understand the purposeful part of that. Show less «

Lena Dunham

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