Natasha Lyonne
Five-time Emmy®-and Golden Globe®-nominee Natasha Lyonne is a gifted creator who continues to push boundaries as a producer, actor, writer and director after more than three decades in the industry.
Lyonne stars in Rian Johnson’s gritty and clever mystery series Poker Face, which she executive produces. In addition to writing for the series and directing an episode, Lyonne plays Charlie, a smart-mouthed detective in this episodic anthology series that has a who’s who of guest stars, including ChloëSevigny, Adrien Brody, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Stephanie Hsu. The series premiere don Peacock in January 2023 and earned her her fifth Emmy nomination for Lead Actress. Lyonne co-created the Netflix series Russian Doll, which won three Emmy®Awards, a total of 14Emmy® nominations including Comedy Series and Lead Actress for Lyonne, a Gotham Award nominationand a Golden Globe®acting nomination for Lyonne after premiering in 2019.She produces, writes and directs the series, in which she stars along side Greta Lee, Charlie Barnett and Chloë Sevigny.She served as showrunner for the second season of Russian Dollwhich premiered to rave reviews in April2022, introducing new cast members Annie Murphy, Sharlto Copey and Carolyn Michelle Smith.In 2022, Lyonne lent her voice to the animated Warner Bros,DC League of Super-Pets, alongside Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart,Keanu Reeves,Kate McKinnon,Vanessa Bayer,John Krasinski and Diego Luna. The film is based on characters from DC’s Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.Lyonne plays Mertel the turtle, who along with the other super pets, have powers to fight crime after Superman is kidnapped. Previously Lyonne portrayed Tallulah Bankhead opposite Andra Day in her Academy Award®-nominated and Golden Globe®-winning turn as legendary jazz singer, Billie Holiday,in Lee Daniels’ The United States Vs. Billie Holiday for Hulu. Along with Maya Rudolph, Lyonne launched Animal Pictures in 2018 with veteran independent producer Danielle Renfrew Behrens,which signed a multi-year first-look deal in 2022 with Apple TV+.Their slate includes Poker Face, Apple’sLoot,starring Rudolph as well as the Hulu feature Crush.Through Animal, Lyonne produced and directed the Netflix special Sarah Cooper:Everything’s Fine and debuted its first documentary,Sirens, to critical acclaim at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Projects in development include Amazon’s sci-fi animated show The Hospital created by Cirocco Dunlap, which waspicked up by Amazon for two seasons, TBS’s Extra Ordinary based on Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman’s Irish indie feature of the same name, and Desert People-a show that Lyonne created with Alia Shawkat-inspired by Alia’s real life.In 2019, Lyonne returnedas Nicky Nichols in the seventh and final season of Netflix original drama series Orange Is the New Black for which she directed an episode. Lyonne directed and appeared in an episode of Comedy Central’s Awkwafina is Nora From Queens. She also directed an episode of Shrill starring Aidy Bryant and an episode of Hulu series High Fidelity starring Zoë Kravitz.In 2014,Natasha earned an Emmy®nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her rolein Orange Is the New Black. Previous television credits includeguest stints on Portlandia, Girls,InsideAmy Schumer, The Simpsons and IFC’s Documentary Now.Lyonne made her directorial debut with Kenzo short film Cabiria, Charity, Chastity, featuring the Fall/Winter 2017 collection. She wrote the screenplay for the film which stars Rudolph, Armisen, and Leslie Odom Jr. among others. In 2017, she produced and starred in IFC Midnight’s Antibirth, directed by Danny Perez, co-starring Sevigny. This independent farce horror hybrid which premiered at SundanceFilm Festival in 2016, was released wide in the US in 2016 and in the UK in 2017.As a young child, Lyonne was signed by the Ford Modeling Agency and at the age of six, she was castas Opal on Pee-wee's Playhouse. She is well known for her acclaimed performances in Slums of Beverly Hills,the beloved comedy directed by Tamara Jenkins, and co-starring Alan Arkin and Marisa Tomei; thecoming-of age comedy,But I’m a Cheerleader, with Clea Duvall and RuPaul; and Everyone Says I LoveYou. Additional film credits include:The Grey Zone, Sleeping with Other People, Hello, My Name is Doris,Blade: Trinity,Party Monster, James Mangold’s Kate & Leopold, American Pie, America Pie 2, DetroitRock City, A Futile & Stupid Gestureand Irresistible