Lena Dunham is an American actress, writer, director and producer.
She is the creator and writer of the HBO TV show Girls, for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and won two Golden Globes.
Lena Dunham starred as Hannah Horvath in the hit series, alongside Allison Williams (Marnie Michaels), Zosia Mamet (Shoshanna Shapiro), Jemima Kirke (Jessa Johansson) and Adam Driver (Adam Sackler).
How old is Lena Dunham?
Born May 13 1986, Lena is 32-years-old.
How tall is Lena Dunham?
According to Wikipedia, Lena Dunham stands at 1.6 metres tall.
What does Lena Dunham weigh?
In July 2018, Lena Dunham shared a split Instagram collage of side-by-side photos showing her 24-pound weight gain.
The 32-year-old Girls creator wrote in the caption that at her lighter weight of 138b pounds, she lived off “small amounts of sugar, a lot of caffeine and a purse of pharmacy”.
As of July 2018, Lena weighed 162 pounds and declared herself to be “happy, joyous and free”.
What is Lena Dunham’s net worth?
Cheat Sheet reports that Dunham has a net worth of $12 million USD.
Where did Lena Dunham grow up?
Lena Dunham was born in New York City. She grew up in Brooklyn but spent summers in Salisbury, Connecticut.
She attended St Ann’s School in Brooklyn where she met future HBO’s Girls star Jemima Kirke.
As a teenager, Lena Dunham won a Scholastic Art and Writing Award.
She went to the New School for one year before transferring to Oberlin College, from which she graduated with a degree in creative writing in 2008.
Who are Lena Dunham’s parents?
Lena was born to father Carroll Dunham, a painter, and mother Laurie Simmons, an artist and photographer.
Her dad is of Protestant English ancestry, while her mother is Jewish.
Lena Dunham has described herself as being “very culturally Jewish”.
The Dunham family are cousins of the Tiffany family, a US jewellery dynasty.
How many tattoos does Lena Dunham have?
According to Steal Her Style, Lena Dunham has 24 known tattoos.
These include the word staunch on her thigh and wrist (although the wrist ink is now covered up), Ferdinand the Bull on her upp arm, jewellery on her sternum, a mermaid on her hip, “Love Me” heart on her bicep, a dollar sign on her finger, a cat on her shouldr blade and a dog on her side.
She also has the words “RIP Judy” tattooed in script font along the right hand side of her rib cage, which she explained reminds her of the hysterectomy she underwent following a decade-long struggle with endometriosis and other chronic pain.
In the lengthy caption she wrote: “Today is National Leathercraft Day, National Relaxation Day and National Lemon Merengue Pie Day. It’s also the 9 month anniversary of my hysterectomy. I’ve never celebrated the 9 month anniversary of anything and I realized last night why that number feels so funny- I won’t ever do it the way I planned to. My body is mostly healed and every day I find a new bruise on my heart, but today I offer myself gratitude: from the most pained place, I somehow knew to choose myself. The purest glint of who we are and know we can be is always available to us, calm and true at our center.
“My friend Paul named my uterus Judy, and when she was being uppity we called her out, hence the tattoo on my ribs, which hurt like fuck even through the pain meds: #RIPJudy. Today I give thanks for Judy, for her graceful exit and for this body, which is stronger than I’ve ever given it credit for. Happy Giving Birth To Myself Day.”
How many siblings does Lena Dunham have?
Lena Dunham has a younger sister called Grace who graduated from Brown University in 2014. She also appeared in Dunham’s first film, Creative Nonfiction, and starred in her second movie Tiny Furniture along with childhood friend Jemima Kirke.
Has Lena Dunham ever appeared completely nude in Girls?
Yes, Lena Dunham appeared fully nude multiple times on HBO’s Girls.
In 2016 the New York actress admitted it was “growing difficult” to film the naked scenes while talking about her character Hannah Horvath in an interview with Refinery29.
“When I first started the show, I wasn’t in a relationship, no one knew who I was, I was just kind of living for the work. So when I took my clothes off on camera, it was just an extension of that,” Dunham said.
Lena was speaking of her then-relationship with musician Jack Antonoff.
“Part of getting older for me has actually been feeling more modest. Unfortunately, Hannah Horvath doesn’t always allow for that. I hope to reprise some of her nudity in this final season with vigor,” she said.
In January 2016 HBO announced it had renewed Girls for a sixth and final season to air in 2017.
Dunham famously declared she would not be involved in promoting the final season due to her battle with endometriosis, leaving responsibility to Girls’ executive producers Judd Apatow and Jennifer Konner.
Does Lena Dunham have children?
No, Lena Dunham does not have children, a reality which “devastated” her after she was forced to have her womb removed aged 31.
The New York Millennial star wrote a searingly painful essay for Vogue magazine detailing her path to hysterectomy after the pain became unbearable to live with.
In May 2017 Lena was rushed to hospital after becoming ill at the Met Gala in New York City.
“I made a choice that never was a choice for me, yet mourning feels like a luxury I don’t have. I weep big, stupid sobs, alone in the bathtub or in the area where, in a terribly cliche turn, I have started crafting,” she wrote in the personal essay.
Is Lena Dunham married?
No, Lena Dunham is not married.
She was in a five year relationship with American musician Jack Antonoff from 2012 until December 2017 after meeting on a blind date set up by Antonoff’s sister and comedian Mike Birbiglia, but mutually split in an “amicable” breakup according to People Magazine.
The celebrity couple repeatedly sparked engagement rumours before their split, though they vowed to never get married until same-sex marriage became legal in all 50 US states.
In an Essay for the New Yorker after same-sex marriage was legalised, Dunham hinted that she had pressured the Bleachers frontman to get married.
“Had a perfectly earnest moral and political stance actually been a convenient stalling tactic? … What followed [the ruling] was a remarkable display of emotional acrobatics on my part. As soon as Jack woke up, I informed him that he ‘better not make a fool out of me,’ followed by a quick ‘LOL,’ and then, ‘But seriously. I’m going to look like a real idiot if we just sit here like losers and keep dating.’
“Then I tweeted, ‘@jackantonoff get on it, yo,’ followed by my immediate and all-consuming regret,” she wrote, adding, “The fact is that wanting everyone to have the right to marry and wanting to be married are two very different things.”
On the idea of marriage and children, Antonoff told the New York Times: “It’s hard to imagine when the right time is, because things are so crazy at the moment. It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I’ve never met people who have kids who haven’t looked me in the eye and been like, ‘It’s the greatest thing that’s ever happened.'”
Does Lena Dunham have a boyfriend?
In August 2018, Lena was pictured strolling the streets of New York City with a mystery man who she was also spotted kissing during a low-key lunch date a few weeks before.
Antonoff has been linked to model Carlotta Kohl.
Apart from Girls, what other movies and TV shows has Lena Dunham been in?
For her work on HBO’s Girls, Lena Dunham became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Direction of a Comedy Series.
Prior to Girls, Dunham wrote, directed and starred in the independent film Tiny Furniture for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay.
In 2013, she was included in the Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people.
In 2014, Dunham released her first book, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned.
In 2015 along with Girls’ producer and show runner Jenni Konner, Dunham created Lenny Letter, a feminist online newsletter. The publication wound up in 2018 amidst a lawsuit.
Dunham has also starred in feature films like Supporting Characters and This is 40, as well as Happy Christmas.
She played guest roles in TV shows Scandal and The Simpsons, and in 2017 portrayed Valerie Solanas in American Horror Story: Cult.
Is Lena Dunham on Instagram?
Yes, Lena is on Instagram as @lenadunham with a follower count of 3 million at the time of writing.
Is Lena Dunham on Twitter?
Yes, Lena is also on Twitter where she has 5.61 million followers.
Her Twitter bio reads: “two eyes two ears one ovary three pigtails a million things to say.”
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