Aya Cash

Aya Cash Biography

Aya Rachel Cash (born July 13, 1982) is an American television, film and stage actress. In December 2015, she received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for her lead role in the FX/FXX series You're the Worst.

Early life

Cash is the daughter of poet and novelist Kim Addonizio and Buddhist teacher Eugene Cash, and the granddaughter of Wimbledon champion Pauline Betz Addie and sportswriter Bob Addie.

She is an alumna of the San Francisco School of the Arts and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater Actor Training Program.

Career

Television

Cash's television appearances include Brotherhood, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Mercy, and The Newsroom. Cash was also a series regular in the 2011 Fox comedy Traffic Light, which ran for one season. She currently stars in the FX Network series You're the Worst as Gretchen Cutler. She received critical acclaim for her performance, with the website The A.V. Club calling her acting in the second season "the best TV performance of 2015".

Film

Cash's film credits include The Oranges, Winter of Frozen Dreams, Off Jackson Avenue, Begin Again, The Bits In Between, and The Happy House. She had a small role as Janet, Jordan Belfort"?s assistant in The Wolf of Wall Street.

Theater

Additionally, Cash has numerous Off-Broadway credits, and in 2014 starred in the world premiere of Zoe Kazan"?s play Trudy And Max In Love.

Personal life

She loves peanut butter and herring. Cash is a resident of New York City.

Filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role
2008	Off Jackson Avenue	Olga
2008	Deception	Secretary #2
2009	Winter of Frozen Dreams	Prostitute
2009	The Bits in Between	Suzy
2011	The Oranges	Maya
2012	Sleepwalk with Me	Hannah
2013	The Happy House	Wendy
2013	Begin Again	Jenny
2013	The Wolf of Wall Street	Janet
2014	Loitering with Intent	Jesse

Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Law & Order	Janine Lesko	Episode: "Kingmaker"
2006	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Lori	Episode: "Weeping Willow"
2007	Brotherhood	Martha Danners	Episode: "Shelter from the Storm 1:1-2"
2007	Spellbound	Chrissy	Unaired CW pilot
2009	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Katrina Lychkoff	Episode: "Hothouse"
2010	Mercy	Bliss Edlestein	Episode: "Too Much Attitude and Not Enough Underwear"
2010	Strange Brew	Lizzy	Unaired FOX pilot
2011	Traffic Light	Callie	Main role; 13 episodes
2012	Friday Night Dinner	Lizzy	Unaired NBC pilot
2012	A Gifted Man	Trish Sulloway	Episode: "In Case of Heart Failure"
2013	The Newsroom	Shelly Wexler	3 episodes
2013	We Are Men	Claire	2 episodes
2014-present	You're the Worst	Gretchen Cutler	Lead role Nominated - Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series (2016) Nominated - TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy (2016)
2015	Modern Family	Vanessa	Episode: "Rash Decisions"
2015	The Good Wife	Amber Audrey	Episode: Don't Fail
2015	Sirens	Cindy	Episode: Let Pythons be Pythons
2016	Easy		1 episode

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