Aya Cash (American Actress) – IMDb, Husband, Interview, Modern Family

Aya Cash is an American actress known for her role in the sitcom ‘Traffic Light’. She is the daughter of the award-winning novelist Kim Addonizio and the granddaughter of sportswriter Bob Addie and Wimbledon champion Pauline Betz. As an actress, she played a lead role in the TV show ‘You’re the Worst,’ for which she earned a Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination. She grew up with an inherent love for performing arts and attended San Francisco School of the Arts. She later went on to earn her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the prestigious University of Minnesota. Cash began her career in 2006, with guest roles on television. Two years later, she started getting supporting roles in films. It was her natural acting skills that garnered media’s attention and ‘Indiewire’ listed her in their list of ‘10 Comic Actresses Who Deserve A Big-Screen Leading Role’. On the personal front, Cash has been married to producer cum writer Josh Alexander since 2012.

Aya Cash Biography

Cash was born in San Francisco, to poet and novelist Kim Addonizio and Buddhist teacher Eugene Cash. 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’.” Cash is an alumna of the San Francisco School of the Arts. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2004 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting, in partnership with the Guthrie Theater Actor Training Program. She then moved to New York City, where she began her acting career. For years, she struggled financially and worked as a full-time waitress to make ends meet.

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Career: Aya Cash began her acting career in 2006, initially with guest appearances in the TV shows ‘Law & Order’ and ‘Brotherhood’. Two years later, she landed a minor role in the crime thriller ‘Deception’. This was followed by her appearance in ‘Winter of Frozen Dreams’, an independent crime drama flick about a biochemistry student and prostitute charged with murder. In 2011, the actress played the main role of Callie in the sitcom ‘Traffic Light’. A year later, she featured in the comedy ‘Sleepwalk with Me’. The movie, directed by, written by, and starring Mike Birbiglia, earned the Best of NEXT Audience Award at that year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Her projects in 2013 included the comedy drama film ‘Begin Again’, the biographical flick ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and the drama series ‘The Newsroom’ and ‘We Are Men’. A year later, Cash became a household name when she played Gretchen Cutler in the comedy-drama series ‘You’re the Worst’. Her performance won appreciation, garnering her a Critics’ Choice Television Award nomination. In 2015, the actress had guest appearances in a few drama series, including ‘The Good Wife’ and ‘Modern Family’.