Natasha Lyonne‘s role in the television series “Russian Doll” has many cultural ties. Natasha Lyonne in Russian Doll finds herself in a loop of her 36th, a number that is significant in Judaism. Chai, the Hebrew word for life, is 18 years old. Two lives, or 18 x 2, equals 36: the series is essentially about getting a second chance at life.
Below are fun and interesting facts about Russian doll, Natasha Lyonne…
1. Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braustein was born in Great Neck, Long Island, the Upper East Side, and Israel to an Orthodox Jewish family.
2. Natasha Lyonne is Ivette and Aaron Braunstein’s daughter.
3. Her father was a promoter of boxing, a race car driver, and a radio personality.
4. Her acting career began at six when she appeared in Pee Wee’s Playhouse as Opal. “I had so much more energy. I was eager to entertain people,” she explained. In the 1993 movie Dennis the Menace and A Man Called Sarge, she also appeared as a child.
5. She was cast in Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You, and she appeared in nearly 30 films over the next ten years.
6. At the age of 18, Lyonne purchased a home with the proceeds from her work on Woody Allen’s film, Everyone Says I Love You.
7. Natasha Lyonne played Nicky Nichols, a drug addict in “Orange Is the New Black,” a role she had previously played. She has been upfront about her difficulties with addiction, as has everyone else who is struggling with their issues; “It seemed like I was on a mission, and working was not high on my priority list.” I didn’t perceive myself as an actress when it was all said and done.” In this popular drama, her character was born into an affluent but dysfunctional Jewish family in New York City.
Natasha Lyonne has made guest appearances on several television shows during her career, including Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Weeds, Will and Grace, and New Girl.
9. Lyonne’s mother was a Holocaust survivor’s daughter. Ella’s grandma came from a huge family, but only she, two sisters, and two brothers survived.
10. Morris Buchinger, Lyonne’s grandpa, was the owner of a watch manufacturer in Los Angeles. To protect himself during the war, he disguised himself as a non-Jew working in the leather industry in Budapest.
11. She is currently engaged to comedian Fred Armisen.
12. The 43-year-old actress describes her signature curly hair as “like wearing a sable coat in the middle of summer at all times.”
Season 2 of the Netflix comedy will premiere on April 20 and will take place four years later, when Nadia is no longer trapped in a time loop.