Girlish Behavior

Independent and amazing writer, director and actress Lena Dunham is becoming the female role model for her generation and the younger gens to come. Dunham just picked up a 2013 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series (Comedy or Musical) for Girls on HBO. She also won a 2013 Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy Series for Girls on HBO and a 2013 Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Director (Entertainment) for that show as well. In 2011, her film Tiny Furniture (2010) won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and also won a 2013 New Generation Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for Tiny Furniture as well. This girl embodies a healthy, independent, slightly awkward, and naturally flawed normal young female in New York. Raised in a supportive, successfully artistic family, Dunham has certainly come into her own art now. In Girls, Dunham shows her protagonist as a strong, slightly awkward, post-college creative, “figuring it out” in a way that has people shocked and embracing this unique and honest portrayal of young women on TV. In her Tiny Furniture film, she touches on issues of sexuality, body image, creativity and art, relationships (both romantic and familial), and truly shows the world what it’s like to be a young girl right out of college, in New York City—and all that entails. After accepting her Golden Globe, she told press that “I don’t want to get married until all gay people can get married,” according to USA Today. And, in two different occasions in her debut film Tiny Furniture, she shares a marijuana moment with her friends. Needless to say: We HEART Lena.