What is Lena Dunham’s net worth and salary?
Lena Dunham, a prominent American actress and filmmaker, has a net worth of $12 million dollars. She is most recognized for her work in creating, writing, and starring in the popular HBO series Girls, which was executive produced by Judd Apatow. This series, which chronicles the lives of four young women living in New York City, ran for six seasons and garnered widespread critical acclaim.
Early Life and Education
Lena Dunham was born on May 13, 1986, in New York City to artist parents. She has a younger sister, Grace, who graduated from Brown University in 2014. Dunham attended Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn and met her future Girls co-star Jemima Kirke there. She went on to study creative writing at Oberlin College, where she produced several independent short films, including Pressure and The Fountain, which went viral on YouTube.
After graduating from Oberlin in 2008, Dunham continued to pursue her passion for filmmaking and writing.
Lena Dunham’s Career Highlights
In 2009, Dunham created the web series Delusional Downtown Divas, which satirized the New York City art scene. She wrote, produced, and directed the 2010 feature film, Tiny Furniture, which received multiple honors. This led to her series, Girls, being picked up by HBO in 2012. Girls received multiple Emmy nominations in 2012 and concluded on April 16, 2017.
Dunham and Jenni Konner were the showrunners and writers for Camping, a remake of the British comedy series of the same name for HBO, starring Jennifer Garner. Camping ran for one season in 2018. Dunham also played Catherine “Gypsy” Share in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
In response to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, Dunham announced she would write a serialized novel, Verified Strangers, as a response to social isolation. The serialization started later that month on the Vogue website.
Lena Dunham’s Personal Life
Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff dated from 2012 to December 2017. Dunham has been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder and took medication for it until 2018. She celebrated two years of sobriety without any medical assistance in April 2020.
In 2018, Dunham underwent a hysterectomy due to endometriosis and wrote about it in an essay for Vogue.
Lena Dunham’s Earnings
Lena Dunham earned $150,000 per episode for her role on Girls, and signed a $3.5 million book deal with Random House Publishing in 2012. Her book was bid on competitively and sold between June 2013 and June 2014, earning her $4 million in total from book sales, her television series, and more.
Lena Dunham’s Real Estate Ventures
In July 2019, Dunham sold her Brooklyn condo for $2.63 million, accepting a loss on the three-bedroom apartment at 60 Broadway for which she had paid $2.9 million in April 2018. She bought the condo shortly after her break-up with Jack Antonoff, who kept their previously shared Brooklyn Heights home.
Dunham reportedly now rents an apartment in Manhattan’s West Village on the second floor of a building that a few of her friends also live in.
In 2015, Lena paid $2.725 million for a home in Hollywood. She sold this home in 2021 for a little under $3 million.
