Biography
Lena Dunham is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. Dunham also directed several episodes of Girls and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series. She started her career writing, directing, and starring in her semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. She has since written and directed the 2022 films Sharp Stick and Catherine Called Birdy. In 2025, she created the Netflix series Too Much starring Megan Stalter.
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Awards & recognition
- Directors Guild of America Award — Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series · 2012
- Film Independent Spirit Awards · 2011
Filmography50+ titles
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour - Live
American Horror Story
The Simpsons
RuPaul's Drag Race
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Everything Is Copy
Judy Blume Forever
Side by Side
Scandal
Conan
The Graham Norton Show
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
The One I Love
The Colbert Report
Saturday Night Live
Industry
Suited
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
Half the Picture
Treasure
7 Days in Hell
Don't Think Twice
Travel Man: 48 Hours in...
Finding Your Roots
Girls
Billy on the Street
The Daily Show
Visible: Out on Television
The Kelly Clarkson Show
The House of the Devil
This Changes Everything
Sky
Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste
Catherine Called Birdy
This Is 40
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Supporting Characters
Too Much
Tiny Furniture
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
I Wish You All the Best
The Innkeepers
The Stand In
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Music
Happy Christmas
Late Night with Seth Meyers
My Art
Gabi on the Roof in July
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen