Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham is an American writer, director, actress, and producer born May 13, 1986, in New York City. She is best known as the creator, writer, and star of HBO's Girls, which ran from 2012 to 2017 and earned her multiple Emmy nominations and two Golden Globe Awards; she became the first woman to win a Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series. Dunham launched her career with the semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture in 2010, which won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. Beyond Girls, she directed the 2022 films Sharp Stick and Catherine Called Birdy and created the Netflix series Too Much in 2025. She published her first memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, in 2014, which reached number two on the New York Times Best Seller list, and a second memoir, Famesick, followed later. In 2013, Dunham appeared on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.