# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lena-dunham
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:39:52.972Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lena-dunham"
name: "Lena Dunham"
slug: "lena-dunham"
description: "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."
tagline: "American writer, director, actress, and producer (born 1986)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lena_Dunham_2024_(facecrop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1986-05-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           32.59066
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "lenadunham"
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    handle:    "lenadunham"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm2501633"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.lenadunham.com"
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    title: "Լենա Դանհեմ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump