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- Birth nameAya Rachel Cash
- Height5′ 2″ (1.57 m)
- Aya Rachel Cash is an American actress, was born in San Francisco, California, to 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 upstairs neighbor, Margarita Landazuri, was one of the first employees for Turner Classic Movies and avidly supported Cash's love for acting and film. 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), and most recently as Cheryl Peterson in the Fox sitcom Welcome to Flatch. She was nominated for the 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. Cash also appeared in numerous films, including The Oranges (2011), Sleepwalk with Me (2012), Begin Again (2013), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Mary Goes Round (2017), Game Over, Man! (2018), and Scare Me (2020).- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- 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.
- A graduate of San Francisco School of the Arts.
- Daughter of award-winning poet and novelist Kim Addonizio. Granddaughter of Pauline Betz.
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