- Born
- Birth nameAya Rachel Cash
- Height5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
- Aya Rachel Cash is an American actress, from San Francisco, California. Her parents are poet and novelist Kim Addonizio and Buddhist teacher Eugene Cash. On her mother's side, she is the granddaughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie. Her father's family is Jewish, whereas her mother is Catholic and of Italian descent. Cash has described herself as Jewish, and explained that their surname "was originally something like 'CH-irsch'.
She is best known for starring as Gretchen Cutler in the FX/FXX dark comedy series You're the Worst (2014-2019), as Stormfront in the Amazon Prime Video superhero drama series The Boys (2020-2022), She was recently nominated for a Tony Award for her Broadway debut in Giant opposite John Lithgow. She has been nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series and the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy for You're the Worst and won a Critic's Choice Super Award for Best Actress in The Boys
- IMDb mini biography by: TeamAC
- SpouseJosh Alexander(September 2012 - present)
- ChildrenNo Children
- ParentsEugene Cash
- RelativesPauline Betz(Grandparent)
- Graduated from the Guthrie BFA acting program at the University of Minnesota.
- In 2014 she was named one of "10 Comic Actresses Who Deserve A Big-Screen Leading Role" by Indiwire.com.
- Her role as Jenny in 'Begin Again' was cut out of the final film, despite her being credited. She mentioned on the Doug Loves Movies podcast that the filmmakers had to credit her since she signed a contract to appear.
- In 2013 was named one of the "Backstage 30" actors about to "break out" in Backstage.
- A graduate of San Francisco School of the Arts.
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