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New Yorker Lena Dunham is the daughter of a painter, Carroll Dunham and Laurie Simmons, a designer and photographer. Dunham was educated at Oberlin College, Ohio, graduating with a creative writing degree. It was while at Oberlin that she began writing shorts and feature films. In 2009, Dunham created the web series Delusional Downtown Divas (2009), which gained a cult following.

Also in 2009, Dunham released Creative Nonfiction (2009), her first feature film. She went on to write, direct and star in Tiny Furniture (2010), which scored two Independent Spirit Award nominations. In 2012, Dunham came to the attention of a wider audience with the HBO series Girls (2012) created by and starring Dunham and executive produced by Judd Apatow.

(March 25, 2013) Her &#39;personal-history&#39; story, &#39;A Box of Puppies&#39;, published in The New Yorker magazine.

(2014) Directed the music video for &quot;I Wanna Get Better&quot; by Bleachers, starring <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0802876/?ref_=nmwrk">Retta</a> among others.

(2015) Music video for Taylor Swift: &quot;Bad Blood&quot; as Lucky Fiori

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