Lena Dunham Biography

Lena Dunham biography

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NAME: Lena Dunham
OCCUPATION: Actress, Filmmaker, Writer
BIRTH DATE: May 13, 1986 (Age: 27)
EDUCATION: Oberlin College, Saint Anne's School
PLACE OF BIRTH: New York, New York
ZODIAC SIGN: Taurus

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Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham is best known for writing, directing, producing and acting in Girls, the original series she created for HBO.

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Life Beyond 'Girls'

Dunham also stole the spotlight in 2012 for appearing in a controversial commercial for President Barack Obama during his campaign, in which she compared voting for the first time to having sex for the first time.

In late 2012, Dunham signed a reported $3.7 million deal with Random House for a book featuring essays about sex and love,

tentatively titled Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned.

A triple threat in the entertainment industry as a writer, filmmaker and actress, Dunham seems unstoppable. As she told Vanity Fair in 2012, "Hard work pays off. I am so annoyed at my father for being right about that."