List of Girls characters

Last updated

Girls is an American television series created by Lena Dunham that aired on HBO from April 15, 2012, to April 10, 2017. [1] The series centers on four young women navigating their twenties in New York City.

Contents

The show has been noted for the realistic portrayal of its characters, including the semi-autobiographical portrayal of lead character Hannah Horvath by writer, director and actress Dunham. [2] Dunham herself told NPR that "each character was a piece of me or based on someone close to me". [2]

According to Forbes reporter Madeline Berg, "In Girls, characters and relationships lack veneers. Whereas most television shows compel you to like their protagonists, Girls wants you to believe them." [3] Writing in The Washington Post , Katherine Boyle compared Girls to reality TV show Keeping Up with the Kardashians , "without the witty dialogue and Golden Globe nominations". [2] She writes, "The highbrow 'Girls' characters joke about the perils of sexting, just like the Kardashian women do. The girls mock Hannah's tiny breasts – and the camera fixates on them – in the same way the Kardashian sisters make fun of Kim's posterior." [2]

Cast timeline

ActorCharacterSeasons
123456
Lena Dunham Hannah Helene Horvath Main
Allison Williams Marnie Marie Michaels Main
Jemima Kirke Jessa Johansson Main
Zosia Mamet Shoshanna Shapiro Main
Adam Driver Adam Sackler Main
Alex Karpovsky Raymond "Ray" Ploshansky Recurring Main
Andrew Rannells Elijah Krantz Recurring Main
Ebon Moss-Bachrach Desi Harperin Recurring Main
Jake Lacy Fran Parker Recurring Main

Main cast

Hannah Horvath

Lena Dunham Lena Dunham 2012 Shankbone.JPG
Lena Dunham

Hannah Helene Horvath is an aspiring writer living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, originally from East Lansing, Michigan. Known for her spunk and bad decisions, she struggles to support herself and find a direction in her life.

At the start of the series, Hannah's parents announce their decision to stop supporting her financially. She leaves her unpaid internship for a job at a law firm, but quits when endemic workplace sexual harassment leads to awkward misunderstanding with her boss. [4] In season two, she is offered an e-book deal to write a series of personal essays based on the strength of her freelance contributions to online publications. The stress of the book deal causes a relapse of the obsessive–compulsive disorder symptoms she suffered in her youth, but the experience brings her closer to Adam, her on-again, off-again, love interest. [5] [6]

After the death of her editor causes the book deal to fall through, she takes a job writing advertorials for GQ magazine in season three. She briefly attends the Iowa Writers' Workshop in season four before returning to New York and becoming a high school teacher. There, she enters a relationship with Fran, a fellow teacher.

In the final season, Hannah becomes pregnant after a brief fling with a surf instructor during a writing assignment. She later leaves New York City to take a teaching job upstate and raise her baby. [7]

Marnie Michaels

Allison Williams Allison Williams July 2012.jpg
Allison Williams

Marnie Marie Michaels is Hannah's best friend and, at the start of season 1, roommate. Along with Jessa, Charlie and Elijah, Marnie was a classmate of Hannah's at Oberlin College. Domineering and arguably as self-centred and narcissistic as Hannah, Marnie struggles in her relationships throughout the series.

At the beginning of the show, Marnie works as an art curator in a gallery. She has been dating her college boyfriend Charlie for four years, though she has grown bored of him. [8] They eventually break up, and Marnie is despondent when Charlie quickly begins dating someone else. Charlie is likewise upset when Marnie reveals she is dating artist Booth Jonathan. After their respective relationships end, Marnie and Charlie decide to get back together.

During the beginning of season 3, Marnie is at her emotional rock bottom. Charlie unexpectedly broke up with her, and after failing to find a job in the art world, is working at Ray's. She also begins sleeping with Ray despite their mutual animosity towards each other. After meeting musician Desi Harperin, Marnie decides to pursue her dream career in music. Despite Desi being in a relationship, he and Marnie begin a musical partnership and an affair. [9] At the end of season 4, Desi and Marnie get engaged.

Upon returning from their honeymoon in season 5, Marnie and Desi begin arguing constantly. After an emotional reunion with Charlie, Marnie decides to divorce Desi. [10] However, they try to continue their music partnership to ride the wave of fleeting commercial success they experience when one of their songs is featured on television. [11] At the end of season 5, Marnie realizes that she is in love with Ray, and the two begin a relationship.

In the final season, Marnie cheats on Ray with Desi, though this affair ends when Marnie finds out that Desi is a drug addict. [12] Sick of Marnie's self-centered attitude, Ray breaks up with her. Desi's addiction also begins to negatively affect their band, and Marnie's musical career collapses.

With nothing left for her in New York, Marnie moves upstate with Hannah to help raise her baby. [13]

Jessa Johansson

Jemima Kirke Jemima Kirke headshot.png
Jemima Kirke

Jessa Johansson is one of Hannah's closest friends, a global citizen of British origin, and is known for being bohemian, unpredictable, and brash. At the start of the series, Jessa has recently returned to New York from a stint abroad, and becomes roommates with her cousin, Shoshanna, in Nolita, Manhattan. She has had a turbulent relationship with her father throughout her life. [14]

Jessa navigates many life struggles and poor choices, including a short-lived marriage to a venture capitalist named Thomas John and a stint in rehab due to heroin and cocaine addiction. In rehab, she becomes close to Jasper, an older man; the two briefly reunite in New York when he finds her at the baby boutique where she works. [15]

At the start of season 5, Jessa is studying to become a therapist and attending substance use support group meetings. When she pursues a relationship with Hannah's ex-boyfriend, Adam, she and Hannah have an explosive falling out. Jessa and Adam are then inspired to create an independent film about the experience. In the final season, she struggles with the realization that her life is in tatters, and is abandoned by Shosh. She also decides she is not ready to become a therapist. While Jessa remains in a relationship with Adam at the end of the series, she and Hannah make peace before Hannah leaves New York. [16] [17]

Shoshanna Shapiro

Zosia Mamet Zosia Mamet 2016.jpg
Zosia Mamet

Shoshanna Shapiro is Jessa's naive and innocent American cousin and a Media, Culture, and Communications major at New York University. The character is fast talking and her lack of enunciation gives her a mumbling, nervous persona. She is a fan of the TV series Sex and the City and is embarrassed to still be a virgin at the start of the series. [18] Her first serious boyfriend is Ray. While Shoshanna breaks up with him at the end of season 2, the pair remain close throughout the rest of the series. [19]

Shoshanna struggles to balance her academic and personal life throughout season 3 and discovers she is ineligible for graduation after failing a class. [20] While she eventually graduates, she finds the postgraduate career search more difficult than she expected. At the end of season 4, Shoshana meets Scott at a job interview and they begin dating. Shortly after they begin dating, however, Shoshana accepts a job offer that has her relocating to Tokyo. Instead of breaking up, Shoshana and Scott decide to pursue a long-distance relationship. [19]

At the beginning of season 5, Shoshanna thrives personally and professionally in Tokyo, making friends and developing a mutual attraction with a coworker named Yoshi. After being unexpectedly laid off from her job, Shoshanna decides to stay in Japan rather than return to New York, effectively breaking up with Scott. However, she eventually finds herself homesick and decides to come back to the United States. Upon her return, Shoshana takes a job helping Ray promote his coffee shop. She eventually realizes that her friendship with the other three has only ever held her back, and ultimately distances herself from them. By the end of the sixth season, she is engaged and has a new circle of friends. [21]

Adam Sackler

Adam Driver Adam Driver by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Adam Driver

Adam Sackler is an aloof, passionate young man who works as a part-time carpenter and actor. At the start of the series, he is in a casual relationship with Hannah. Their relationship becomes more serious after the season 2 finale, in which he runs across town to Hannah’s side when the stress of her book deal severely impacts her mental health. [5] The pair grow distant due to the pressure Adam experiences when he is cast in a Broadway production of Major Barbara . [22] While they agree to a long-distance relationship as Hannah attends the Iowa Writers Workshop, this falls through and Adam has already begun a new relationship with Mimi-Rose upon Hannah's return to New York. [23]

Adam is an alcoholic who has been sober for years. [24] He develops a bond with Jessa when they begin attending the same support group. The two develop a volatile relationship, causing a rift between Hannah and Jessa. When Hannah becomes pregnant, Adam considers reuniting with her to help raise the baby, but the pair ultimately decide not to rekindle their relationship. [25]

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Jerry Saltz has endorsed the idea that Adam is intended to be a fictional scion of the real-life Sackler family, and that Adam's substance abuse and art world adjacency are intended as commentary on the real-life family's controversial relationship with the opioid crisis and arts philanthropy. [26] Dunham has not commented on whether the character's naming was intentional.

Ray Ploshansky

Alex Karpovsky Alex Karpovsky 2012 Shankbone.JPG
Alex Karpovsky

Raymond "Ray" Ploshansky is introduced as Charlie's friend, but later becomes a friend of the others and the group's straight man. Unlike Hannah and her other friends, Ray is in his thirties. [28] He works at Grumpy's, a local coffee shop. By the second season, he enters a relationship with Shoshanna. Even though the two break up, the experience encourages Ray to take himself more seriously; at the start of season 3, he is made manager of a spin-off of Grumpy's called Ray's. He also briefly dates Marnie in season 3. [29]

Galvanized by poor traffic conditions in his neighborhood, Ray mounts a successful campaign for city council in season 4. [30] He deals with competition from a hipster coffee shop across the street from Ray's throughout seasons 5 and 6. [31] When Hermie, the proprietor of Grumpy's, dies in season 6, Ray continues Hermie's oral history project to document gentrification in Brooklyn. [17]

Elijah Krantz

Andrew Rannells Andrew Rannells 2011.jpg
Andrew Rannells

Elijah Krantz is Hannah's ex-boyfriend from college who reveals that he is gay. Despite some initial hostility between the pair, they eventually become friends and later on-and-off roommates. The two grow much closer as roommates. Despite being gay, he has a one-night stand with Marnie that is a brief source of tension in Marnie and Hannah's friendship.

In seasons 3 and 4, Elijah dates Pal. Elijah enters a relationship with sophisticated television host Dill Harcourt in season 5 but is eventually heartbroken to realize that Dill is unwilling to settle down with one person. [33]

Elijah aspires to become a Broadway performer and often tries to ingratiate himself into theatrical social circles. At the end of the series, riding off the emotions of his final conversation with Dill, he has a successful audition for a Broadway musical adaptation of White Men Can't Jump . [17]

Desi Harperin

Ebon Moss-Bachrach Ebon Moss-Bachrach by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Desi Harperin is introduced as Adam's co-star in Major Barbara and soon becomes Marnie's bandmate. Despite having a girlfriend, Clementine, he and Marnie engage in a sexual relationship. The secret nature of their relationship is a source of personal and professional frustration for Marnie as record label executives believe the pair would be more marketable as a romantic item. [34] When Clementine eventually breaks up with Desi, he and Marnie have a public relationship. They become engaged, and later marry.

In season 6, Marnie eventually ends the relationship with him when she tires of his childishness and self-indulgence, though they continue their musical partnership. It is revealed that Desi is addicted to prescription pain killers after Marnie cheats on Ray with him.

Fran Parker

Jake Lacy Jake Lacy at TCA 2010.jpg
Jake Lacy

Fran Parker is a fellow high school teacher at St. Justine's whom Hannah dates in season 5. While more emotionally stable than Adam, Fran is very critical of both Hannah's teaching style and her personal decisions. [19] [35] Fran moves in with Hannah and Elijah, but he and Hannah break up by the end of the season.

Recurring characters

Minor characters and guest stars

Related Research Articles

<i>Sex and the City</i> American TV series (1998–2004)

Sex and the City is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for HBO, based on the newspaper column and 1996 book by Candace Bushnell. It premiered in the United States on June 6, 1998, and concluded on February 22, 2004, with 94 episodes broadcast over six seasons. It had various producers, screenwriters and directors, principally Michael Patrick King.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shiri Appleby</span> American actress (born 1978)

Shiri Freda Appleby is an American actress and television director. She is best known for her leading roles as Liz Parker in the WB/UPN science fiction drama series Roswell (1999–2002) and Rachel Goldberg in the Lifetime/Hulu drama series Unreal (2015–2018).

In episodic television, a bottle episode or bottle show is an episode produced cheaply and restricted in scope to use as few regular cast members, effects and sets as possible. Bottle episodes are usually shot on sets built for other episodes, frequently the main interior sets for a series, and consist largely of dialogue and scenes for which no special preparations are needed. They are commonly used when one script has fallen through and another has to be written at short notice, or because of budgetary constraints. Bottle episodes have also been used for dramatic effect, with the limited setting and cast allowing for a slower pace and deeper exploration of character traits and motives.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rose Nylund</span> Fictional character from The Golden Girls

Rose Nylund is a fictional character from the sitcom television series The Golden Girls and its spin-off, The Golden Palace. She was portrayed by Betty White for 8 years, totaling 204 episodes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Justin Burton</span> UK soap opera character (created 2003)

Justin Burton is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Chris Fountain. Justin arrived in 2003 and departed on 3 June 2009. Justin arrived in a family of six, however by September 2006, the Burton family had left the show. It was announced in March 2009 that Fountain had decided to leave the show and would depart in a 'major storyline which echoes the fire which killed his sisters'. Fountain was credited in a flashback episode broadcast on 1 December 2010. On 12 April 2023, it was revealed that Justin had been killed off-screen on 5 October 2022, nearly 14 years after his last appearance on screen.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Miley Stewart</span> Fictional character from the television series Hannah Montana

Miley Ray Stewart is a fictional character and central protagonist of the Disney Channel television series Hannah Montana, portrayed by Miley Cyrus. She first appeared on television in the pilot episode "Lilly, Do You Want to Know a Secret?" on March 24, 2006, and made her last appearance on the series finale "Wherever I Go" on January 16, 2011. The character also appeared in the 2009 feature film Hannah Montana: The Movie. Miley is a normal teenage girl who, as her alter ego Hannah Montana, secretly leads a double life as a world-famous pop star.

<i>October Road</i> (TV series) Drama television series

Space Floor Television/Mojo Films/Group M Entertainment/ABC Signature (2007)

<i>Halloweentown</i> (film) 1998 television film by Duwayne Dunham

Halloweentown is a 1998 American fantasy comedy film directed by Duwayne Dunham. The first installment in Halloweentown series, it stars Debbie Reynolds, Kimberly J. Brown, Joey Zimmerman, and Judith Hoag. It is the fourth Disney Channel Original Movie. It centers on Marnie, who learns she is a witch on her 13th Halloween and is transported to Halloweentown—a magical place where ghosts, ghouls, witches, and werewolves live apart from the human world, but she soon finds herself battling wicked warlocks, evil curses, and endless surprises.

<i>Hung</i> (TV series) American television series

Hung is an American comedy-drama television series that ran on HBO from June 28, 2009, to December 4, 2011. It was created by Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin, and stars Thomas Jane as Ray Drecker, a struggling suburban Detroit high-school basketball and baseball coach who resorts to prostitution. The second season premiered on June 27, 2010, and concluded its 10-episode run on September 12, 2010. The third season premiered on October 2, 2011, and concluded its 10-episode run on December 4, 2011. The series was cancelled after three seasons.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Meghann Fahy</span> American actress (born c.1990)

Meghann Fahy is an American actress. Her first prominent role was playing Hannah O'Connor on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live from 2010 to 2012. On Broadway, she starred as Natalie Goodman in the stage musical Next to Normal from 2010 to 2011. She starred as Sutton Brady on the Freeform drama series The Bold Type, which ran from 2017 to 2021. In 2022, Fahy played Daphne on the second season of the HBO anthology series The White Lotus, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lena Dunham</span> American writer and actress (born 1986)

Lena Dunham is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. Dunham also directed several episodes of Girls and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series. She started her career writing, directing, and starring in her semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay. She has since written and directed the 2022 films Sharp Stick and Catherine Called Birdy.

Girls is an American comedy-drama television series created by and starring Lena Dunham, executive-produced by Judd Apatow. The series depicts four young women living in New York City. The show's premise was drawn from Dunham's own life, as were major aspects of the main character, including financial isolation from her parents, becoming a writer, and making unfortunate decisions. The series is known for its post-feminist commentary and conversation around body politics and female sexual subjecthood.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jemima Kirke</span> British-American actress (born 1985)

Jemima Kirke is a British-American artist, actress and director. She gained international acclaim through her role as Jessa Johansson in the 2012 HBO series Girls. She made her film debut in the 2005 indie short Smile for the Camera and her feature-length debut in Tiny Furniture (2010), as a favour for her childhood friend Lena Dunham.

<i>The Girl</i> (2012 TV film) 2012 British television film by Julian Jarrold

The Girl is a 2012 British television film directed by Julian Jarrold, written by Gwyneth Hughes and produced by the BBC and HBO Films. The film stars Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren and Toby Jones as Alfred Hitchcock. It is based on Donald Spoto's 2009 book Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies, which discusses the English film director Hitchcock and the women who played leading roles in his films. The Girl's title was inspired by Hitchcock's alleged nickname for Hedren.

"Every Man's Dream" is the twenty-seventh season premiere of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 575th episode of the series overall. The episode was directed by Matthew Nastuk and written by J. Stewart Burns. It aired in the United States on Fox on September 27, 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jessa Seewald</span> American reality television participant (born 1992)

Jessa Lauren Seewald is an American television personality. She is known for being part of the cast of TLC's reality shows 19 Kids and Counting (2008–2015) and Counting On (2015–2021). She also co-authored a book with her sisters Jana, Jill and Jinger titled Growing Up Duggar: It's All About Relationships.

<i>Dirty 30</i> 2016 American film

Dirty 30 is a 2016 comedy film starring YouTube personalities Mamrie Hart, Grace Helbig, and Hannah Hart. The film is directed by Andrew Bush, and produced by Michael Goldfine. The film was released on September 23, 2016.

<i>Girls</i> season 1 Season of television series

The first season of the American comedy-drama television series Girls premiered on HBO on April 15, 2012, and consisted on 10 episodes, concluding on June 17, 2012. The series was created by Lena Dunham, who portrays the lead character, who based the premise and central aspects of the show on her personal life. It was produced by Apatow Productions, I Am Jenni Konnor Productions and HBO productions.

References

  1. "Girls (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)". Epguides.com. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Boyle, Katherine (December 1, 2013). "Lena Dunham, a Kardashian at Heart". The Washington Post . Retrieved 2024-01-06 via EBSCOHost.
  3. Berg, Madeline (April 16, 2017). "Why Ratings Didn't Matter For HBO's 'Girls'". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-01-06 via EBSCOHost.
  4. LaScala, Marisa (31 December 2014). "Maybe Try This in 2015, Hannah Horvath & Friends". Bustle. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  5. 1 2 Bahr, Lindsey. "Girls season finale recap: A Rom-Com Ending". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  6. Steinkellner, Kit (25 February 2014). "IS HANNAH HORVATH A BELIEVABLE YOUNG WRITER?". Book Riot. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  7. "Girls: Hannah Horvath: Bio". HBO. Archived from the original on October 8, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  8. Paskin, Willa (2016-03-28). "Why That Lovely Marnie-Centric Episode of Girls Was Exactly What the Show Needed". Slate. ISSN   1091-2339 . Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  9. "What Happened To Marnie & Desi In 'Girls' Season 5? The Couple's Relationship Is Still Complicated A Season Later". Bustle. 2017-02-13. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  10. "Working Girls or Drop-Dead Gorgeous? Young Girls in Fashion and News". Youth Cultures: 47–68. 2003. doi:10.5040/9798216040118.0006.
  11. Agard, Chancellor. "Girls recap: Hello Kitty". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  12. "What Happened To Marnie & Desi In 'Girls' Season 5? The Couple's Relationship Is Still Complicated A Season Later". Bustle. 2017-02-13. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
  13. "Girls: Marnie Michaels: Bio". HBO. Archived from the original on October 8, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  14. Hanna, Beth (25 February 2013). "'Girls' Recap 7: In 'Video Games,' Ben Mendelsohn Guest Stars as Jessa's Flaky Father". IndieWire. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  15. Roden, Matt (11 March 2014). "Girls Recap: Everyone Is Wigging Out". Junkee. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  16. "Girls: Jessica Johansson: Bio". HBO. Archived from the original on October 8, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  17. 1 2 3 Logan, Elizabeth (17 April 2017). "Here's What Happened to Every Character on 'Girls'". Glamour. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  18. "A Look Inside The NYU Life Of Girls' Shoshanna". NYU. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
  19. 1 2 3 Hersey, Liz (20 April 2019). "Every Single Boyfriend From Girls, Ranked (Worst To Best)". ScreenRant. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  20. n.a. (23 March 2014). "'Girls' recap, Season 3, Episode 12, 'Two Plane Rides'". Metro. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  21. "Girls: Shoshanna Shapiro: Bio". HBO. Archived from the original on October 8, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  22. Schlossberg, Mallory (23 March 2014). "How Demanding Is Adam's Role?". Bustle. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  23. Zemler, Emily (16 March 2015). "A Tribute to the Threateningly Perfect Mimi-Rose Howard". Elle. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  24. "Girls: Adam Sackler: Bio". HBO. Archived from the original on October 8, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  25. Kim, Brendan (10 November 2021). "Adam Driver Reacts To Girls' Good Soup Meme Popularity On TikTok". Screen Rant. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  26. Saltz, Jerry (December 2, 2021). "@jerrysaltz instagram page" . Instagram. Archived from the original on 2021-12-23.
  27. "Acclaimed HBO Series "Enlightened" and "Girls" to Kick Off Second Seasons in Jan. 2013". August 1, 2012. Archived from the original on February 3, 2013. Retrieved August 2, 2012.
  28. Romano, Evan (27 March 2017). "A RAY OF REASON SHINES IN GIRLS". Brooklyn Mag. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  29. Dockterman, Eliana. "Girls Recap: Real Jobs Have Snacks". Time. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  30. n.a. "GIRLS SEASON 4 EPISODE 9 Daddy Issues". HBO. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  31. n.a. "GIRLS SEASON 5 EPISODE 2 Good Man". HBO. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  32. Nilles, Billy (January 16, 2014). "'Girls' Season 4: Andrews Rannells confirms series regular status". Zap 2 it. Archived from the original on January 16, 2014.
  33. Aminosharei, Nojan (6 April 2016). "No, Andrew Rannells' Sexy New Boyfriend on Girls Isn't Based on You Know Who". Elle. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  34. Herman, Alisoin (26 January 2015). "'Girls' Season 4 Episode 3 Recap: "Female Author"". Flavorwire. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  35. Budowski, Jade (13 February 2017). "The Guys of 'Girls', Ranked Terrible to Tolerable". Decider. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
  36. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Zarum, Lara (29 March 2017). "The Top 50 'Girls' Guest Stars, Ranked". Flavorwire. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  37. Maerz, Melissa. "'Girls': Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner answer our burning questions about season 2". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  38. Nicolaou, Elena. "The 32 Most Memorable Celebrity Cameos On Girls" . Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  39. Muller, Marissa G. (27 February 2018). "Donald Glover and Lena Dunham Had an Uncomfortable Exchange After His Girls Takedown of White Women". W Magazine. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  40. 1 2 Lorre, Rose Maura (14 April 2017). "The 25 Best Girls Guest Stars, Ranked". Vulture. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  41. 1 2 3 4 n.a. "Girls (2012–2017) Full Cast & Crew". IMDb. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  42. Murray, Darla (9 February 2014). "Q&A: Jenna Lyons on Her Girls Cameo, Befriending Lena Dunham, and More". The Cut. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  43. Williams, Lauren. "The Daily Show's Jessica Williams on Race, Comedy, and Her Role in "Girls."". Mother Jones. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  44. Piwowarski, Allison (22 March 2015). "Ranking All Of The Men On 'Girls' (Suck It, Ace)". Bustle. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  45. Thorp, Charles. "Meet Michael Zegen, the Charming New Guy on 'Girls'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  46. Usovicz, Jennifer. "Hannah's new career path is inspiring to "Girls" viewers, but Adam has her stuck in sadness". The Suffolk Journal. Retrieved 10 November 2023.
  47. Scharper, Julie. "Towson native Peter Mark Kendall snags recurring role on "Girls"". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 10 November 2023.