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Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein (/liˈoʊn/ lee-OHN;[1] born April 4, 1979[2]) is an American actress, director, writer, and producer. She is known for playing Nicky Nichols on the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019), for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress, and for her portrayal of Nadia Vulvokov on the Netflix series Russian Doll (2019–present), which she also co-created, executive produces, writes, and directs. For the latter, Lyonne has received nominations for three Primetime Emmys, including Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Natasha Lyonne
Lyonne at the 2014 Peabody Awards
Born	Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein (1979-04-04) April 4, 1979 (age 43) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress director writer producer
Years active	1986–present

Lyonne made her feature film debut in 1986 with a small, uncredited appearance in Heartburn. She played more prominent parts in Dennis the Menace (1993); Everyone Says I Love You (1996); Slums of Beverly Hills (1998); Detroit Rock City, Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby, and But I'm a Cheerleader (all 1999); Scary Movie 2, The Grey Zone, and Kate & Leopold (all 2001); Die, Mommie, Die! and Party Monster (both 2003); Blade: Trinity (2004); All About Evil (2010); Sleeping with Other People, Hello, My Name Is Doris, and Addicted to Fresno (all 2015); Antibirth and Yoga Hosers (both 2016); Show Dogs (2018); Honey Boy and Ad Astra (both 2019); Irresistible (2020); The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021); and DC League of Super-Pets (2022). She is also known for portraying Jessica in the American Pie film series (1999–2012).

Early life

Lyonne was born in New York City,[1] the daughter of Ivette Buchinger[1] and Aaron Braunstein, a boxing promoter, race car driver and radio host,[3] distantly related to cartoonist Al Jaffee.[1] Lyonne's parents were from Orthodox Jewish families, and she was raised Orthodox.[4][5] Her mother was born in Paris, France,[6] to Hungarian-Jewish parents who were Holocaust survivors.[7][8][9][10][11] Lyonne has darkly joked that her family consists of "my father's side, Flatbush, and my mother's side, Auschwitz."[1] Her grandmother Ella[12] came from a large family. Only she and her two sisters and two brothers survived, which Lyonne credits to their blond hair and blue eyes.[1] Lyonne's grandfather Morris Buchinger operated a watch company in Los Angeles. During the war, he hid in Budapest as a non-Jew working in a leather factory.[1] Lyonne lived the first eight years of her life in Great Neck, New York.[7][13]

Lyonne and her parents emigrated to Israel, where she spent a year and a half. During her stay with her family in Israel, Lyonne participated in the 1989 Israeli children's film April Fool (Hebrew: אחד באפריל), which began her interest in acting.[4][14] Her parents divorced, and Lyonne and her older brother, Adam, returned to America with their mother.[7] After moving back to New York City, Lyonne attended the Ramaz School, a private Jewish school,[15] where Lyonne said she was a scholarship kid who took honors Talmud classes and read Aramaic. She was expelled for selling marijuana at school. Lyonne grew up on the Upper East Side, where she felt she was an outcast.[1] Her mother moved their family to Miami, where Lyonne attended Miami Country Day School.[16][17] She did not graduate from high school, leaving before her senior year to attend a film program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Her high school graduation depended on completing her first year at Tisch, but she left the program because she could not pay the tuition.[5]

Lyonne attended New York University for a short time, studying film and philosophy.[13]

Lyonne was estranged from her father, who was a Democratic candidate for City Council for the sixth District of Manhattan in 2013,[3][18] and lived on the Upper West Side until his death in October 2014.[19] She has said she is not close to her mother and has essentially lived independently of her family since age 16.[4]

Career

As a young child, Lyonne was signed by the Ford Modeling Agency.[20] At age six, she was cast as Opal on Pee-wee's Playhouse, followed by film appearances in Heartburn, A Man Called Sarge, and Dennis the Menace. Of working as a very young child actor, Lyonne has said: "I didn't have the best parents. I don't think they are bad people. Even if they were ready to have children, it is kind of a wacky idea to put your child in business at six years old."[6]

Film

At age 16, Lyonne was cast in the Woody Allen-directed Everyone Says I Love You (1996). This led to appearances in a variety of films over the next 10 years, including starring roles in the independent features Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), for which she received two Teen Choice Award nominations,[21] and But I'm a Cheerleader (1999). During this time, she appeared as Jessica in the highly successful teen comedy American Pie (1999), reprising the role in two of its sequels. Lyonne's other films during this period included Detroit Rock City, Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (both 1999), Scary Movie 2, The Grey Zone, Kate & Leopold (all 2001), Party Monster (2003), and Blade: Trinity (2004). Her later film appearances include All About Evil (2010), 4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011), Girl Most Likely, Loitering with Intent, Sleeping with Other People, Hello, My Name Is Doris, Addicted to Fresno, #Horror, Yoga Hosers, Antibirth, The Intervention, Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie, and Honey Boy.

Theater

Lyonne made her New York stage debut in the award-winning New Group production of Mike Leigh's Two Thousand Years.[4][22]

She was part of the original cast of the award-winning Love, Loss, and What I Wore, a play by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, based on the book by Ilene Beckerman.[23]

In 2010, Lyonne received positive reviews for her performance in Kim Rosenstock's comedy Tigers Be Still at the Roundabout Theatre Company: "a thorough delight in the flat-out funniest role, the grief-crazed Grace, so deeply immersed in self-pity that she has cast aside any attempts at decorum".[24][25]

In 2011, Lyonne starred opposite Ethan Hawke and Ann Dowd in New Group's production of Tommy Nohilly's Blood From a Stone.[26][27] The next year, she participated in New Group's benefit performance of Women Behind Bars.[28]

Of working in the theater, Lyonne has said, "There's something about theater that squashes the self-critical voices because you have to be in the moment. I'm glad that I didn't do this before I was ready before I was capable of showing up every day. That is not a skill set I had before".[27]

Television

Lyonne has made guest appearances on the series Grounded for Life, Weeds, New Girl, Will & Grace, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

From 2013 to 2019 she appeared as Nicky Nichols in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. The role is Lyonne's first television job as a series regular.[29] She received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2014,[30] and was twice awarded the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, along with her co-stars.

In 2014 Lyonne was cast in Amy Poehler's NBC comedy pilot Old Soul, directed by David Wain.[31] In 2016 she began voicing the character Smoky Quartz on the Cartoon Network show Steven Universe. She has also appeared as various characters on IFC's sketch comedy series Portlandia. In 2018 she voiced the character Gaz Digzy on Adult Swim's comedy series Ballmastrz: 9009. She has voiced characters on The Simpsons and Netflix's Big Mouth.

Her performance in the 2019 Netflix series Russian Doll has been praised as "astonishing".[32] Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone called it "brilliant".[33] The series received 13 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Lyonne's performance as Nadia Vulvokov, and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.[34]

Directing and producing

In 2017, Lyonne was approached by Kenzo's creative directors Carol Lim and Humberto Leon to direct the 5th installment in their short film series. For this, her directorial debut, she began writing a script with Maya Rudolph in mind to star.[35] The surrealist short film was titled Cabiria, Charity, Charlotte and starred Rudolph, Fred Armisen, Greta Lee, Leslie Odom Jr. and Macaulay Culkin.[36]

In September 2017, Lyonne's project Russian Doll was given an eight-episode straight-to-series order by Netflix.[37] The comedy, co-created and executive produced by Lyonne, Amy Poehler, and Leslye Headland, premiered on February 1, 2019.[38] Lyonne has multiple roles in the series. She is credited as the lead actress and is one of the series's executive producers with directorial and writing credits.[39]

In 2018, Lyonne and Rudolph co-founded the production company Animal Pictures.[40] Its first greenlit project was Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine, which Lyonne directed.[41]

Lyonne directed an episode of Orange Is the New Black in its seventh and final season, as well as an episode of Hulu's Shrill, "WAHAM",[42] and an episode of High Fidelity, "Weird...But Warm."[43]

Personal life

When she was 18, Lyonne used the paycheck from her work on Everyone Says I Love You to buy a small apartment near Gramercy Park.[7] During the early 2000s, she experienced legal problems and was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol,[44] and for incidents involving her neighbors.[45] In 2005, she was evicted by her landlord, actor Michael Rapaport, following complaints by other tenants about her behavior.[46]

In 2005, Lyonne was admitted (under a pseudonym) to Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan, suffering from hepatitis C, a heart infection, and a collapsed lung; she was also undergoing methadone treatment for heroin addiction.[47] In January 2006, a warrant was issued for her arrest after she missed a court hearing relating to her prior legal problems. Her lawyer said an emergency had arisen but did not give details. Later that year, Lyonne was admitted to a drug and alcohol treatment center, and she appeared in court afterward. A judge sentenced her to conditional discharge.[4]

Lyonne underwent open-heart surgery in 2012 to correct heart valve damage caused by her endocarditis heart infection,[48] which could have resulted in sudden death if untreated.[49] She recovered from the surgery and discussed her past health problems on The Rosie Show in March 2012.[50]

Lyonne lives in New York City's East Village.[51][52] She and Saturday Night Live alumnus Fred Armisen began dating in 2014; Lyonne confirmed they had ended their relationship in April 2022.[53]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Heartburn	Rachel's Niece	Uncredited[5]
1989	April Fool	Natasha
1990	A Man Called Sarge	Arab Girl
1993	Dennis the Menace	Polly
1996	Everyone Says I Love You	Djuna "DJ" Berlin
1998	Slums of Beverly Hills	Vivian Abromowitz
	Krippendorf's Tribe	Shelly Krippendorf
	Modern Vampires	Rachel
1999	American Pie	Jessica
	Detroit Rock City	Christine Sixteen
	Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby	Crystal "White Girl" Van Meuther	Also associate producer
	But I'm a Cheerleader	Megan Bloomfield
	The Auteur Theory	Rosemary Olson
2001	Plan B	Kaye
	Fast Sofa	Tamara Jenson
	Scary Movie 2	Megan Voorhees
	American Pie 2	Jessica
	The Grey Zone	Rosa
	Kate & Leopold	Darci
2002	Comic Book Villains	Judy Link
	Zig Zag	Jenna the Working Girl
	Night at the Golden Eagle	Amber
2003	Die, Mommie, Die!	Edith Sussman
	Party Monster	Brooke
2004	America Brown	Vera
	Madhouse	Alice
	Blade: Trinity	Sommerfield
2005	Robots	Loretta Geargrinder (voice)
	My Suicidal Sweetheart	Grace
2008	Tricks of a Woman	Sally
2009	The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle	Tracy
2009	Jelly	Mona Hammel
	Goyband	Fani
	Running Away with Blackie	Motel Clerk	Short film
	Outrage: Born in Terror	Molly
	Heterosexuals	Ellia
2010	All About Evil	Deborah Tennis
2011	4:44 Last Day on Earth	Tina
	Night Club	Mrs. Keaton
2012	American Reunion	Jessica
2013	7E	Yael
	He's Way More Famous Than You	Herself
	The Rambler	Cheryl
	G.B.F.	Ms. Hogel
	Girl Most Likely	Allyson
	Clutter	Lisa Bradford
2014	Loitering with Intent	Kaplan
2015	Addicted to Fresno	Martha Jackson
	Sleeping with Other People	Kara
	Hello, My Name Is Doris	Sally
	Bloomin Mud Shuffle	Jock
	#Horror	Emma
2016	Yoga Hosers	Tabitha Collette
	The Intervention	Sarah
	Darby Forever	The Baddest Girl	Short film
	Antibirth	Lou	Also producer
	Adam Green's Aladdin	Mom
	The Realest Real	Herself	Short film
	Jack Goes Home	Nancy
2017	Girlfriend's Day	Miss Taft
	Handsome	Det. Fleur Scozzari
	Cabiria, Charity, Chastity	Jules	Short film Also producer, writer, and director
2018	A Futile and Stupid Gesture	Anne Beatts
	Family	Juggalette
	Show Dogs	Mattie
	Doulo	Rena	Short film
2019	Honey Boy	Mrs. Lort
	Ad Astra	Tanya Pincus
	Uncut Gems	Boston Player Personnel (voice)
2020	Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics	Herself
	Irresistible	Tina De Tessant
2021	The United States vs. Billie Holiday	Tallulah Bankhead
2022	DC League of Super-Pets	Merton (voice)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Pee-wee's Playhouse	Opal	6 episodes
2000	Will & Grace	Gillian	Episode: "Girl Trouble"
2000	If These Walls Could Talk 2	Jeanne	Television film
2001	Night Visions	Bethany Daniels	Episode: "If a Tree Falls"
2002	Grounded for Life	Gretchen	Episode: "Relax!"
2007	The Knights of Prosperity	Female Co-Star	Episode: "Operation: Rent Money"
2009	Loving Leah	Esther	Television film
2011	New Girl	Gretchen	Episode: "Wedding"
2011	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Gia Eskas	Episode: "Educated Guess"
2012	Weeds	Tiffani	2 episodes
2013	NTSF:SD:SUV::	Mrs. Barbato	Episode: "Comic Con-Air"
2013–2019	Orange Is the New Black	Nicky Nichols	Main role; 81 episodes Directed episode: "The Hidey Hole"
2015	Girls	Rickey	Episode: "Iowa"
2015	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Katie	Episode: "Dax Shepard Wears a Heather Grey Shirt and Black Blazer"
2015	Sanjay and Craig	Chido (voice)	Episode: "Bike-o Psycho/Boulder Rollers"
2015–2016	Inside Amy Schumer	Various	2 episodes
2015–2018	Portlandia	Various	5 episodes
2016	The $100,000 Pyramid	Herself	Episode: "Natasha Lyonne vs. Terry Crews"
2016–2019	Steven Universe	Smoky Quartz (voice)	3 episodes
2016–2019	The Simpsons	Sophie Krustofsky (voice)	3 episodes
2018–2020	Ballmastrz: 9009	Gaz Digzy (voice)	Main role; 20 episodes
2018	Corporate	Gretchen	Episode: "Corporate Retreat"
2018	Animals.	VHS Copy of Can't Hardly Wait (voice)	Episode: "Stuff"
2018–2021	Big Mouth	Suzette; Nadia Vulvokov (voice)	6 episodes
2019–present	Russian Doll	Nadia Vulvokov	Main role; 15 episodes Also producer, writer, and director
2019	Documentary Now!	Carla Meola	Episode: "Long Gone"
2019	An Emmy for Megan	Herself	Episode: "New Minimum Length"
2019	Explained	Narrator (voice)	Episode: "Pirates"
2019	Steven Universe Future	Smoky Quartz (voice)	Episode: "Guidance"
2019	Cake	Gretchen	Episode: "Cache Flow"
2019	John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch	Herself	Television special
2020	Shrill	None	Directed episode: "WAHAM"
2020	Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens	Woman in Hair Salon	Episode: "Not Today" Directed episode: "Paperwork"
2020	High Fidelity	None	Directed episode: "Weird... But Warm"
2020	Crossing Swords	Norah (voice)	Episode: "Eat Plague Love"
2020	Bless the Harts	Debbie Donatello (voice)	Episode: "Violet's Secret"
2020	Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine	None	Director
2021	Ten Year Old Tom	Irene (voice)	Episode: "The Principal is Banging My Mom/Elderly Gerbil"
2022	Saturday Night Live	Herself (host)	Episode: "Natasha Lyonne/Japanese Breakfast"
2022	Loot	None	Executive producer
TBA	Poker Face		Also executive producer

Music videos

Year	Song	Artist	Notes
2003	"Way Out West"	Verbena
2015	"Lampshades on Fire"	Modest Mouse
2016	"333"	Against Me!	[54][55]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
1999	Chicago Film Critics Association Awards	Most Promising Actress	Slums of Beverly Hills	Nominated
	Teen Choice Awards	Film – Funniest Scene (shared with Marisa Tomei)		Nominated
		Film – Breakout Performance		Nominated
2000	Young Hollywood Awards	Best Ensemble Cast	American Pie	Won
2014	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series	Orange Is the New Black	Nominated	[56]
2015	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series		Won	[57]
2017				Won	[58]
	Fangoria Chainsaw Awards	Best Actress	Antibirth	Nominated	[59]
2018	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series	Orange Is the New Black	Nominated	[60]
2019	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series	Russian Doll	Nominated	[61]
		Outstanding Comedy Series		Nominated	[62]
		Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series		Nominated	[63]
	Gotham Awards	Breakthrough Series – Short Form		Nominated	[64]
	Satellite Awards	Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy		Nominated	[65]
		Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy		Nominated
	Saturn Awards	Best Streaming Science Fiction, Action & Fantasy Series		Nominated	[66]
		Best Actress in Streaming Presentation		Nominated
	TCA Awards	Individual Achievement in Comedy		Nominated	[67]
		Outstanding Achievement in Comedy		Nominated
		Outstanding New Program		Won
		Program of the Year		Nominated
2020	Writers Guild of America Awards	Comedy Series		Nominated	[68]
		New Series		Nominated
	Golden Globe Awards	Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy		Nominated	[69]
	Hugo Awards	Best Dramatic Presentation – Long Form		Nominated	[70]

See also

• The song "Natasha" from Want One by Rufus Wainwright was written for and about Lyonne.[6]

References

External links

• Natasha Lyonne at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Natasha Lyonne

Natasha Lyonne (* 4. April 1979 in New York City; eigentlich Natasha Bianca Braunstein) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin.

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- [en] Natasha Lyonne

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[es] Natasha Lyonne

Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein (Nueva York, 4 de abril de 1979) es una actriz estadounidense de cine y televisión.

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[ru] Лионн, Наташа

Ната́ша Лио́нн (англ. Natasha Lyonne; род. 4 апреля 1979[1], Манхэттен, Нью-Йорк) — американская актриса, сценаристка, продюсер и режиссёр. Наибольшую известность ей принесла роль Никки Николс в сериале «Оранжевый — хит сезона» (2013—2019), за которую она получила номинацию на премию «Эмми», а также роль Джессики в серии фильмов «Американский пирог» (1999—2012). Начиная с 2019 года, Лионн исполняет ведущую роль в сериале «Матрёшка», где также выступает одной из создательниц.

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