Through her hapless alter ego Hannah Horvath, Lena Dunham has brilliantly captured the anxieties and ambitions of a generation. Nathan Heller meets the hardest-working millennial in show business.
Lena Dunham is a Woman of the 년 because…“She’s incredibly brave, curious, and engaged…and she happened to hit on something universal. I will be tuning in forevermore.” —actress and friend Claire Danes
Even though Dunham turned in an essay that doesn’t make any mention of a structure for a series—which one could argue points to one of Girls’ greatest flaws—HBO believed in her enough because of Tiny Furniture to get on board.