Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham’s career took off at the 2010 South By Southwest Film Festival, where her debut film as a writer, director, and actress, ‘Tiny Furniture,’ won the Best Narrative Feature award and garnered the attention of Hollywood. Judd Apatow was a fan, and offered to partner with her on an HBO series. The results, ‘Girls,’ became one of the channel’s most popular comedy series. Four seasons of the Brooklyn-set show have already aired and a fifth is on its way. In 2014, Dunham published her first book, a collection of essays titled ‘Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s ‘Learned.’’

Notable Credits:
Tiny Furniture (2010)
This Is 40 (2012)
Girls (2012-2015)
Happy Christmas (2014)

'Girls' Season 4 Adds Maude Apatow in Guest-Starring Role

The guest list for season 4 of 'Girls' just keeps getting longer and more and more exciting. Maude Apatow, charming daughter of writer/director Judd Apatow and co-star of several of her father's films, has just been added to the 'Girls' season 4 roster as a guest star, reuniting with her 'This Is 40' co-star Lena Dunham.

Britt Hayes

Reel Women: Anna Kendrick Charms in 'Happy Christmas'

Writer and director Joe Swanberg reunites with his 'Drinking Buddies' star Anna Kendrick for 'Happy Christmas,' an intimate indie dramedy in which Kendrick stars as a willfully regressive 27 year-old who moves in with her older brother and his wife, only to throw their world into (minor) upheaval. A charming counterpoint to popular man-child narratives, Swanberg's latest asks not for sympathy for its main character, but merely identification and a little empathy.

Britt Hayes

'Girls' Season 4 Adds Natasha Lyonne

'Girls' season 4 has been busy with its guest casting of late, and where last season began with an appearance by a fan-favorite 'Orange Is the New Black' actress, the HBO dramedy is at it again. 'Orange' star Natasha Lyonne will break free of Litchfield to check in with Hannah on 'Girls' season 4, but as whom?

Kevin Fitzpatrick

'Girls' Season 4 Adds 'AHS' Star Zachary Quinto

The list of 'Girls' season 4 guest stars is getting longer and longer, first with the announcement of 'Community' vet Gillian Jacobs, and now with fan-favorite 'American Horror Story' and 'Star Trek' star Zachary Quinto. The 'Heroes' actor will guest in an upcoming episode of the HBO Brooklyn dramedy, but as whom, you wonder?

Kevin Fitzpatrick

Watch Lena Dunham's Interpretive Dance to Sia

It's not often that a fully planned and perfectly executed performance feels so very nonsensical, but that's exactly what happened when Sia came to 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' with a very special guest, Lena Dunham.

Kate Erbland

'Girls' Season 4 Adds 'Parenthood' Star Jason Ritter

While we were excited for the last 'Girls' season 4 casting announcement of 'Community' vet Gillian Jacobs, it was somewhat tempered by the news that her stay might prove to be less permanent than we hoped. Though, the fourth year for HBO's Lena Dunham dramedy added another departing NBC vet for balance. 'Parenthood' vet Jason Ritter will put in a season 4 appearance for 'Girls,' as well, but as whom?

Kevin Fitzpatrick

‘Girls’ Season 4 Adds ‘Community’ Star Gillian Jacobs in Recurring Role

HBO proved a bit cagey in confirming that 'True Detective' had any involvement from Jessica Chastain, but another critically-acclaimed HBO series isn't hesitating to scoop up a fan-favorite actress. Fresh off the 'Community' cancellation, 'Girls' season 4 has added Gillian Jacobs to Britta Lena Dunham's life in a mysterious recurring role.

Kevin Fitzpatrick

Saturday Night Fever

The 39th season of 'Saturday Night Live' is over. From the beginning, it was a strange season -- gone were so many of the show's powerful voices: Hader, Samberg, Wiig, Sudeikis, Armisen -- yet this allowed new voices to be heard. And that's the thing about being new on 'SNL': not everything is going to hit. But, in compiling this list of the ten best sketches from the 2013-2014 season, there were

Mike Ryan

'Girls' Season 3 Wrap-Up

Last night's 'Girls' season 3 finale "Two Plane Rides" proved far less polarizing than its predecessors, cementing the third year of HBO's Lena Dunham dramedy on a much more even keel overall. Now, as planning begins for an already-ordered fourth season of 'Girls,' executive producer Judd Apatow reveals that the episode order has been cut, while showrunner Jenni Konner has her own insigh

Kevin Fitzpatrick

‘Girls’ Talk: “Two Plane Rides”

Welcome back to another edition of 'Girls' Talk, in which we at ScreenCrush are joined by a critic each week to discuss the latest episode. This week, we're discussing the season 3 finale, in which Hannah receives some potentially life-changing (and relationship-changing) news. Meanwhile, Marnie comes clean to Shoshanna and promptly steps into a whole other mess, and Jessa discovers why Beadie rea

Britt Hayes