Natasha Lyonne
Natasha Lyonne
Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein, better known as Natasha Lyonne, is an actress. She is best known for her role as Jessica in the American Pie series and her appearances in the films Everyone Says I Love You, Slums of Beverly Hills, But I'm a Cheerleader, and Blade: Trinity. She currently portrays Nicky Nichols in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, for which she received a nomination for the 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth4 April 1979
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I do have an outsider's complex of getting made fun of. I was made fun of as a kid, and I don't have the stomach for it.
I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think people understand that other people go through things. We're all a bit gonzo, and you're allowed to take a little time to get your head on straight.
I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.
Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting.
Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?
I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
Life is not for the faint of heart.
I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.
I'm a movie star. Can I talk to my entertainment lawyer?
I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.
My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.
I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
I often think my boyfriend is going to leave me just from seeing how I talk to the dog. But you know, when you are talking to your dog, you are accessing this softer side of you. Everything else melts away.