Lena Dunham

I find Lena Dunham fascinating because she refuses to separate her roles: she creates, writes, directs, produces, and stars, often all at once. Girls remains one of the defining television shows of its decade, and becoming the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for comedy directing is a genuinely historic marker. What I admire most is her appetite for discomfort — she writes people who are messy, vain, and recognizable, and she puts herself in the frame without protection. She has never been a consensus figure, but artists who provoke real arguments are rarer and more valuable than artists everyone politely agrees on.

Name (English)

Lena Dunham

Name (Japanese)

レナ・ダナム

Reading

れな・だなむ

Born

May 13, 1986 (age 40)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Tiger

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Height

160 cm

Occupation

actor / film director / screenwriter / film producer / writer

University

Oberlin College

Awards & achievements

• 2012 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series
• 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.lenadunham.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/lenadunham/
• Xhttps://x.com/lenadunham
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%8A%E3%83%A0

Tags

• New York
• actor
• film director
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.