Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham, the daughter of a painter and photographer, is best known for creating, writing, directing, producing and acting in the Golden Globe-winning HBO series Girls. Time magazine's 2012 Coolest Person of The Year grew up in New York, studied creative writing at Oberlin College, produced the web series Delusion Downtown Divas post-graduation and in 2010 made the short Tiny Furniture, a semi-autobiographical story about a college grad who gets dumped and moves back home. It won the South by Southwest Film Festival's best narrative feature award and piqued Judd Apatow's interest enough to sign on as producer of Girls. Pre-Girls,
