Natasha Lyonne

Lyonne has faced a number of legal issues due to alcohol and drug use. In the early 2000s, she suffered from alcohol addiction and was arrested by police for driving under the influence of alcohol. She was also evicted by her landlord in the year 2005 for her abusive behavior.

Lyonne has also suffered from health issues. In 2005, she was diagnosed with Hepatitis C, heart infection, and a damaged lung. She was hospitalized for several months and underwent an open heart surgery to correct the damage caused to her heart through infection.

Lyonne is in a relationship with the star of Saturday Night Live, Fred Armisen since the year 2014.

Natasha Lyonne was born in New York City on April 4, 1979 to Ivette Buchinger and Aaron Braunstein. Her father was a boxing promoter. He also drove race cars and hosted radio shows during his spare time.

Lyonne’s mother was born in Paris to holocaust survivors and later migrated to the USA. Her family had interests in arts and the famous cartoonist Al Jaffee was her father’s distant relative.

Her family was of Jewish origin and both her parents had orthodox Jewish beliefs. Lyonne too was raised as an orthodox Jew.

For the first eight years of her life, she was raised in Great Neck area of New York City. Her family then migrated to Israel. A year and half after migrating to Israel, her parents got divorced. Lyonne and her brother then moved back to the USA along with their mother.

Lyonne attended the famous private Jewish School in New York City, The Ramaz School. She was a good student and received scholarship all through her school. She took honors Talmud classes and read the Aramaic language eagerly during her school days.

Lyonne got opportunities in modeling at a young age of six. She was cast as Opal in Pee-wee’s Playhouse. She also appeared in movies like ‘Heartburn’, ‘Dennis the Menace’, and ‘A Mann called Sarge’. Her career did not move much beyond these minor appearances.

When she was sixteen, she was cast in Woody Allen’s romantic hit, ‘Everyone Says I Love You’. She was critically applauded by the critics for her performance in the movie.

Over the next 10 years, Lyonne worked in a number of movies and some of them are ‘Detroit Rock City’, ‘The Grey Zone’, ‘Blade: Trinity and Scary Movie 2’.

Lyonne acted in Indie (Independent) movies like ‘Slums of Beverly Hills’ and ‘But I’m a Cheerleader’. She liked independent movies as they offered her a variety of roles when compared with the regular commercial movies produced by big studios.

After ‘Every One Says I Love You’, she also made television appearances on some popular television shows like NBC’s ‘Will and Grace’.

’American Pie’ series of movies and ‘Orange is the New Black’ continue to be the major works of Lyonne. While the former made her a darling of teenagers and young adults, the later made her a star among women.