Lena Dunham

At 37 years old, Lena Dunham has this physical status:

Career

Dunham produced several independent short films and posted them on YouTube while an Oberlin College student. Many of her early films dealt with themes of sexual awakening and were produced in a mumblecore filmmaking style, a dialog-heavy style in which young people talk about their personal relationships. Dunham's character was also compelled to do so in 2006, when she wrote Pressure, in which a girl and two friends discuss an orgasm for the first time. Dunham explains, "I didn't go to film school." "I went to liberal arts school and self-imposed a curriculum of tiny flaky video sketches, brief reflections on comedies, and slapping them on the Internet."

On YouTube, another early film named The Fountain, which depicted her in a bikini brushing her teeth in a public fountain at Oberlin College, went viral. "Her blithe willingness to disrobe without fear provoked an outburst of censure from viewers," Rebecca Mead of The New Yorker wrote. Dunham was shocked by the backlash and decided to delete the video:

Pressures (2006), Open the Door (2007), Hooker on Campus (2007), and The Fountain (2007) were all released as DVD extras with Tiny Furniture.

Dunham appeared in a ten-episode web series called Tight Shots, written by Virginia Heffernan of The New York Times Magazine as "a ditty serial about kids trying to make a film, be artistic, and have lots of sex."

Dunham produced Delusional Downtown Divas, a 2009 web series that mocked the New York City art scene. Because the job was unpaid, Dunham and her cohorts "pooled their money from babysitting and art-assistant gigs and borrowed some camera equipment."

At the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, Dunham premiered Creative Nonfiction, a comedy in which she plays Ella, a college student attempting to complete a screenplay. She was first refused by the festival the year before; she re-edited and successfully resubmitted the film.

Dunham's semiautobiographical 2010 feature film Tiny Furniture received Best Narrative Feature at Southwest Music and Media Conference in South and later screened at such festivals as the Maryland Film Festival. Aura is played by Dunham. Laurie Simmons (Lena Dunham's real-life mother) appears in Aura's mother, and Lena's real-life sibling Cyrus appears in Aura's on-screen sibling Cyrus. Dunham also received an Independent Spirit Award for her work on Tiny Furniture.

Dunham was awarded a blind script contract at HBO because of the success of Tiny Furniture. Dunham's veteran showrunner Jennifer Konner was brought to the network by the network. Konner told Vulture's Jada Yuan that she became involved with Dunham because she was an ardent Tiny Furniture fan: she was adamant.

When she was profiled by David Carr in The New York Times, Dunham's star was also praised; she was later credited with her introduction to Judd Apatow. Apatow watched Tiny Furniture and was stunned to learn that Dunham had also written and directed the film. Apatow told The Hollywood Reporter, "I emailed her and told her I thought it was awesome." "It turned out she was in the middle of a contract to produce a show for HBO, and Jenni Konner, whom I had worked with on Undeclared and a number of other projects." "I asked me if I wanted to be a part of it, and I was eager to jump in."

Girls, Dunham's television series, was released by HBO in early 2011. At the 2012 South by Southwest Festival, three episodes were screened to a positive response.

Hannah Horvath (portrayed by Dunham) is a 20-something writer struggling to get by in New York City. Hannah's personal life was inspired by Dunham's real-life experiences, including being cut off financially from her parents, becoming a writer, and making bad decisions.

Girls, according to Dunham, are a segment of the population that was not depicted in the 1998 HBO series Sex and the City. "Gossip Girl was a teen who was slaying it out on the Upper East Side and Sex, and the City was populated by people who [had] figured out work and family relationships and now want to nail love and family life. "There was this 'hole-in-between' space that hadn't really been addressed," she said. When producers wanted to make it clear that the characters were inspired by the former HBO series and moved to New York to fulfill their hopes, the pilot intentionally mentions Sex and the City. "Revere[s] that film reaches the same level as any other teen of my generation," Dunham says.

On April 15, 2012, the first season of HBO premiered, and has received critical acclaim. The New York Times praised the series, writing that "Girls may be the millennial generation's rebuttal to Sex and the City," the city's narrator, but Louie on FX or Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO was at times as humourously insightful and bleakly funny as Louie on FX or Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO." Time's James Poniewozik reserved high praise for the film, calling it "raw, audacious, nuanced, and, often, ridiculously funny."

Despite the acclaim, the series has also been chastised for racial representation and Dunham's frequent on-screen nudity.

Dunham received four Emmy Award nominations for her performances in acting, writing, and directing the series, as well as two Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy, as well as two Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Dunham won the first female award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series in February 2013.

In April 2012, the girls were renewed for a second season, well before the first season had begun. Over one million viewers watched the last episode of the first season on television.

The second season of Girls received acclaim. "The complete constellation of impetuous, passionate, and insecure young urbanites in Girls is realigning in the new season," David Wiegland of the San Francisco Chronicle said, though no one of the four episodes sent to critics for review believes any of it is artificial." "Sharper, smarter, more layered, and acted," Verne Gay of Newsday said. "As bright-eyed and bushy as it was in its first season, girls may now be even more spunkier, more funnier, and riskier," Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker wrote. HBO's second season ran on HBO from January 2013 to March 2013, with third and fourth seasons being revived. With over one million viewers, the third season of Girls premiered in January 2014. With musical guest The National, Dunham hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live earlier this month.

Dunham's first book was published in late 2012 after she signed a $3.5 million contract with Random House. The book, which was part of an essay collection entitled Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She Learned" was published in September 2014. In October 2014, the New York Times Best Seller list reached number two.

Despite decreasing viewership, Girls was renewed for a fifth season on January 5, 2015. A Casual Romance Productions, a production firm that produces television and film projects, was born in Dunham's first year. Me Hilary, The Man Who Drew Eloise, was the company's product. Dunham had appeared in a guest appearance in an episode of ABC's Scandal, which aired on March 19, 2015.

Dunham said in September 2015 that the sixth season of Girls would be the last season. HBO later reported it.

In 2016, Dunham appeared in My Art, her mother's film, which had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival for the 73rd time. In My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, a 2016 American animated teen drama film directed by Dash Shaw, she also played Mary. It was selected to be shown in the Vanguard section of the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. Scenes for the film Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising were also shot by Dunham, but they were removed from the final film.

Valerie Solanas, the real-life radical feminist and SCUM manifesto writer who attempted to murder Andy Warhol in the late 1960s, was portrayed in American Horror Story: Cult.

The sixth and final season of Girls' sixth and final season concluded on April 16, 2017, giving a total of 62 episodes in the series.

Dunham has been working on a second book that will be released by Random House in 2016.

A Casual Romance Productions revealed in February 2018 that it would produce Camping, a revival of the British comedy series of the same name for HBO, with Jennifer Garner leading the charge and Dunham and Konner as showrunners and writers. The series's annual summer press tour featured executive producer Jenni Konner and cast member Jennifer Garner on July 25, 2018. A teaser trailer for the film was also posted the next day.

On its premiere, camping has been met with a mixed to dismissive response from critics. The first season on Rotten Tomatoes is given an approval rating of 28 percent, with an average rating of 5.1 out of ten based on 32 reviews. According to the website's critical consensus, "the first season of Camping makes it difficult to decide who the least happy campers are: those on the screen or those watching it." Based on 26 critics, Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, gave the season a score of 49 out of 100, meaning "mixed or average reviews."

Dunham will appear in the film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, directed by Quentin Tarantino, which was released on September 26, 2019. Catherine "Gypsy" Share was portrayed by Dunham in his role. Dunham and Konner, as producer partners, dissolution their production company in October 2018, coinciding with the end of their joint HBO contract. Dunham's Good Thing Going is a new production company that does not have a first glance at HBO in August 2019.

Lena Dunham and Alissa Bennett launched The C-Word Podcast, a Luminary podcast.

In reaction to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, Dunham announced in March 2020 that she would write Verified Strangers, a serialized book, as a means of social alienation. The act, she explained, was a way to support herself and the readers in the midst of trepidation. On the Vogue website, the serialization began later this month. On the first episode of HBO's Industry, Dunham produced and appeared as an executive producer. She appeared in Jamie Babbit's The Stand In That Year.

Dunham played a small part in Music in 2021, under Sia's direction. She has also appeared on Genera+ion, a HBO Max dramedy.

Kristine Froseth, Dunham, and Jon Bernthal's second feature film, Sharp Stick, was released in 2022, Dunham's second feature film, earning mixed reviews. Catherine Called Birdy, an adaptation of Karen Cushman's Children's book of the same name, will also be produced, write, and produce Catherine Called Birdy, an adaptation of the children's book from Working Title Films.

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