Natasha Lyonne Net Worth

Natasha Lyonne's Quotes

• My life is very much in the present today. And that's what theater is all about.
• [re New York] I have a real love affair with the city. I just feel like when you're up or when you're down, the city really cushions you. I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater. For the matinee.
• I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or just been one. I certainly liked entertaining people and making jokes, but I don't know necessarily if that's what your child is prone to that you should necessarily put them in a real working industry at six years old. By the time I was 16, I was already an exhausted cynic.
• I mean, I didn't have a 28-day drug problem. I had a take-five-years-off drug problem. [Because of] "my well-publicized drug problem, there was many years I couldn't get work...I mean, life is very short but life is also very long. I don't know that there's such a rush. I think I also needed a break just in terms of the child actor in me was tired. I mean, I'd been working from, like, 6 to 24, pretty much nonstop.
• [on performing her role as a cat-loving school teacher in G.B.F. (2013)'] If you're at all a reasonable human being when you're 34 years old, you don't read scripts looking at the children's parts. I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again. It's really a miracle that I made it out alive. I'm doing all right being in my 30s - I think I'm hitting my sweet spot. I'm glad to have already come of age.

Interesting Facts about Natasha Lyonne

1. Attended Yeshiva High School in Manhattan, where she acted in a school production of "The Magic Garden."
2. Arrested by Miami Beach police on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, careless driving and leaving the scene of an accident. Her rented Dodge ran off the road into a traffic sign. She was arrested about 1:45am and released after posting a bond during the day. Her statement to the arresting officer was, "I'm a movie star. Can I talk to my entertainment lawyer?" [August 2001]
3. She and her family briefly lived in Israel (where she filmed A Man Called Sarge (1990)). After her parents divorced, she moved back to New York with her mother and brother while her father remained in Israel.
4. Rufus Wainwright's song "Natasha" is written about her.
5. Was originally set to play Candy in The Devil's Rejects (2005), but was replaced by Elizabeth Daily.
6. Has lived on her own since 16.
7. Was originally cast as Audie in the film Audie & the Wolf (2008) but was replaced by Tara Price.
8. After dropping out of NYU's Tisch School at age 17, she bought her own apartment, a penthouse with wraparound terrace in Manhattan's Gramercy Park area, using two semesters worth of tuition to make the down payment.
9. Her parents are both of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Her maternal grandparents, Ella (Netzer) and Morris Buchinger, both originally from Hungary, were Holocaust survivors.
10. Her character in Orange Is the New Black (2013) mentions making The Exorcist (1973) jokes while being strapped down in the rehab clinic, which is a reference to her role in Scary Movie 2 (2001).
11. Close friends with her Orange Is the New Black (2013) co-stars, Laura Prepon and Taylor Schilling.
12. Attended a Zionist military camp when she was 13 years old, living in Israel.
13. Longtime friend of Chloë Sevigny.
14. Natasha has worked with Michael Harney twice - in Weeds (2005) and Orange Is the New Black (2013).
15. Between her TV debut at age 7 on Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986) and playing junkie Nicky on Orange Is the New Black (2013), Natasha fought, and kicked, an addiction to heroin. After getting clean, she underwent open-heart surgery to repair the damage she'd inflicted on her body during this period.
16. Received her first screen kiss from co-star Devin Ratray in the film Dennis the Menace (1993).
17. She was offered the title role in Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) but turned it down as she wasn't interested in doing TV at the time.
18. Lyonne underwent open-heart surgery in 2012 to correct heart valve damage caused by her heart infection.
19. In 2005 Lyonne was admitted to Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan under a pseudonym, suffering from hepatitis C, a heart infection, and a collapsed lung; she was also undergoing methadone treatment for heroin addiction. Later that year Lyonne was admitted to a drug and alcohol treatment center.