Natasha Lyonne

Natasha Lyonne is one of those actors who makes you wonder why it took Hollywood this long to fully catch on. She's been around since the '90s — American Pie, But I'm a Cheerleader — doing this husky-voiced, heavy-lidded New York thing that nobody else can pull off, and then she came back from a genuinely rough stretch in her personal life to basically reinvent herself. Russian Doll was the proof of concept: she didn't just star in it, she co-created and co-wrote it, and the result was some of the most inventive television of the 2010s. That TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy in 2023 feels like the industry finally catching its breath and saying, yes, obviously, this woman is operating on a different level. She's a character actor who became the main character, and she earned every bit of it.

Name (English)

Natasha Lyonne

Name (Japanese)

ナターシャ・リオン

Reading

なたーしゃ・りおん

Born

April 4, 1979 (age 47)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Goat

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

film actor / actor / character actor / television actor / voice actor

University

New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Awards & achievements

• 2023 TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/nlyonne/
• Xhttps://x.com/nlyonne
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%B3

Tags

• New York
• film actor
• actor
• character actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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.