Natasha Lyonne
Natasha Lyonne is an American actress, screenwriter, film director, and showrunner born in New York City on April 4, 1979.
Her education took her through several institutions, including the Ramaz School, Miami Country Day School, and French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts, before she went on to study at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. That grounding across both academic and performing-arts settings preceded a career that would stretch across film, television, and voice acting.
Working across multiple roles in the industry, Lyonne has functioned not only as a character actor in film and television but also as a television producer and presenter. She uses English and Hebrew, and has built a body of work that spans in front of and behind the camera, taking on responsibilities as both a writer and a director in addition to her on-screen performances. Her work as a showrunner places her among those who carry creative and operational responsibility for a production from development through to delivery, a role that extends well beyond straight performance.
Lyonne received the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy, a peer-recognized distinction in television criticism circles that specifically acknowledges her comedic work. Comedy, along with her consistent presence as a character actor across film and television, marks a recurring thread running through her career in the industry.
Quotes by Natasha Lyonne
Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.
There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there’s nothing to hide. It’s a relief in a way. There’s nothing about me that can’t be said.
That’s usually how I get to know strangers – get inappropriately touchy. Once they’ve experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.
It’s a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
No, but it is something I really enjoy speaking about. You’ve got to do something with all the books you’ve read, so you might as well imagine you’ve optioned them.
I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it’s a good thing to have a serious facialist.
I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
