Natasha Lyonne
Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein (/liˈoʊn/lee-OHN; born April 4, 1979) is an American actress, writer, director, and producer. Lyonne started her career as a teen actress before expanding her career, taking on mature roles in film and television. She is known for her distinctive raspy voice and "tough" persona, and the accolades she has received include nominations for five Primetime Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. She was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine in 2023. Lyonne started her career as a child actress, making her first uncredited appearance in Heartburn (1986), recurring in Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986), and supporting in Dennis the Menace (1993). She transitioned to taking on teen roles in several independent films such as Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), But I'm a Cheerleader (1999), and Party Monster (2003) as well as in broad comedic films such as American Pie (1999), American Pie 2 (2001), Scary Movie 2 (2001), and American Reunion (2012). She found a career resurgence and Emmy Award nominations for her performances as Nicky Nichols on the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019), a software engineer stuck in a time loop in the Netflix's comedy-drama series Russian Doll (2019–2022), and a woman who can tell when people are lying in the Peacock crime comedy series Poker Face (2023–present), the former of which she also served as a co-creator, writer, director, and executive producer of the series. She also starred in the Netflix drama film His Three Daughters (2024). Description above from the Wikipedia article Natasha Lyonne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
151 acting credits · 10 directing credits
Acting · 151
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Simpsons
1989
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Saturday Night Live
1975
Conan
2010
RuPaul's Drag Race
2009
Golden Globe Awards
1944
New Girl
2011
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Will & Grace
1998
The View
1997
Orange Is the New Black
2013
Weeds
2005
Steven Universe
2013
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
What If...?
2021
Big Mouth
2017
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Fantastic 4: First Steps
2025
Poker Face
2023
Grounded for Life
2001
Girls
2012
The Bad Guys 2
2025
Comedy Bang! Bang!
2012
American Pie
1999
Portlandia
2011
Match Game
2016
Scary Movie 2
2001
Explained
2018
Roommates
2026
The $100,000 Pyramid
2016
The Eric Andre Show
2012
Documentary Now!
2015
Robots
2005
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023
Smurfs
2025
Russian Doll
2019
Blade: Trinity
2004
Steven Universe Future
2019
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
2020
American Pie 2
2001
Pee-wee's Playhouse
1986
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
2025
Uncut Gems
2019
Night Visions
2001
The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy
2024
American Reunion
2012
DC League of Super-Pets
2022
Dennis the Menace
1993
Crossing Swords
2020
Free Radio
2008
Ad Astra
2019
But I'm a Cheerleader
2000
The Knights of Prosperity
2007
Kate & Leopold
2001
Sleeping with Other People
2015
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
Heartburn
1986
Party Legends
2016
Pee-wee as Himself
2025
Oh Jerome, No
2019
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
2020
His Three Daughters
2024
Ballmastrz: 9009
2018
Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs
2017
Honey Boy
2019
Detroit Rock City
1999
Yoga Hosers
2016
The Grey Zone
2001
Everyone Says I Love You
1996
An Almost Christmas Story
2024
Irresistible
2020
Family
2018
Child Star Confidential
2006
If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000
The United States vs. Billie Holiday
2021
Klara and the Sun
2026
Party Monster
2003
Show Dogs
2018
A Futile and Stupid Gesture
2018
Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie
2017
Madhouse
2004
Zig Zag
2002
Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps - World Premiere
2025
Cabiria, Charity, Chastity
2017
Modern Vampires
1998
Fast Sofa
2001
4:44 Last Day on Earth
2012
Teen Choice Awards
1999
Loving Leah
2009
Girl Most Likely
2012
All About Evil
2010
Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby
2000
Krippendorf's Tribe
1998
Slums of Beverly Hills
1998
Outrage: Born in Terror
2009
American Pie: Revealed
2004
The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle
2010
Girlfriend's Day
2017
The Rambler
2013
#Horror
2015
Addicted to Fresno
2015
Old School
2003
The Intervention
2016
Die, Mommie, Die!
2003
Crazy for Love
2005
The Auteur Theory
1999
Comic Book Villains
2002
Plan B
2002
John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
2019
Antibirth
2016
He's Way More Famous Than You
2013
Ricky Powell: The Individualist
2020
Loitering with Intent
2014
Clutter
2013
Adam Green's Aladdin
2016
A Man Called Sarge
1990
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
2020
Jack Goes Home
2016
Gavin McInnes is a Fucking Asshole
2010
7E
2013
Night at the Golden Eagle
2002
Doulo
2018
Bloomin Mud Shuffle
2015
Tricks of Love
2008
Night Club
2011
Love, Loss, and What I Wore
2020
Heterosexuals
2010
House Comes with a Bird
2022
Jelly
2010
Darby Forever
2016
Basketful of Heads
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Goyband
2009
Running Away with Blackie
2009
America Brown
2005
American Dream: The 21 Savage Story
2024
The Quitter
2014
Lightscape
2024
ChikaBOOM!
2026
April Fool
1989
Uncanny Valley
—
Lip Service
2020
Pathetic Fallacy
—
Can We Talk?
—
Darlene
—
G.B.F.
2014
Directing · 10
Orange Is the New Black
2013
Poker Face
2023
Russian Doll
2019
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens
2020
High Fidelity
2020
Cabiria, Charity, Chastity
2017
Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine
2020
Jacqueline Novak: Get on Your Knees
2024
Bambo
—
Uncanny Valley
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