Aya Cash began her acting career on stage until she built a strong enough repertoire to take her to the big screen. However, even after her break from the big screen, the actress continued to show up in a few off-Broadway productions.
The actress has been in films such as Spellbound, Off Jackson Avenue, Sleepwalk with Me, and Mary Goes Around. Cash’s TV movies include productions like Among the Men We Trust, Brotherhood, Newsroom, and American Dad! Her biggest project came when she joined the cast of the FX Network series You’re the Worst in 2014. For her role on the show, she received acclaim from fans and critics alike.
Bio, age of Aya Cash
The actress was born Aya Rachel Cash in SanFrancisco California on July 13, 1982. She may not have gotten her acting genes from her parents or anyone in her gene pool, but she was born to two creators. His mother, Kim Addonizio, Catholic, is both a poet and a novelist. His father, Eugene Cash, whose family is Jewish, earns his living as a Buddhist teacher. Aya also comes from sports royalty; his maternal grandparents are Bob Addie, sportswriter and Pauline Betz, Wimbledon winner in 1946.
To honor her acting talent, Cash studied at the SanFrancisco School of Arts. After her time there, she spent some time in the acting training program at the University of Minnesota’s Guthrie Theater. In both institutions and after, the actress recorded some stage credits. These included the 2014 off-Broadway production Trudy and Max Amoureux, written by playwright Zoe Kazan.
Television and cinema
The actress made her big screen debut in 2006 when she appeared on an episode of Law & Order as a character named Janine Lesko. The same year, she appeared in an episode of the series’ sister series, Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Lori. Until the end of 2009, Aya was part of TV shows and movies like Trusted Men (2006), Bewitching (2007), Off Jackson Avenue (2008), Law & Order: Unity Special Victims (2009), and The Bits Between (2009).
Her most prominent role to date was when she joined the cast of the TV series Traffic Lights in 2011. She played the character Callie for 13 episodes of the show. She also had another recurring role on The Newsroom and We Are Men two years later. In 2013, she joined Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McCounaghey and Margot Robbie on the set of the infamous The Wolf of Wall Street. She had a supporting role as Janet, the assistant to main character Jordan Belfort, played by the man from the Titanic.
In 2014, Aya Cash was cast in the You’re the Worst Family playing Gretchen Cutler. It became his longest running project spoofing Traffic Lights. By the end of 2017, the San Francisco School of Arts graduate had appeared on 49 episodes of the series. In 2015, Aya was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series category of the Critics’ Choice Television Award.
From 2015 to 2018, Aya Cash worked extensively on numerous series and films. She was Vanessa and Amber Audrey on an episode each of Modern Family and The Good Wife respectively. She has also been on American Dad!, 10 Crosby, Relentless with Intention, Big Brother Volcano, and Brand New Old Love.
Aya Cash’s husband
The San Francisco native is married to JoshAlexandre. The couple walked down the aisle in 2012. Aya and her husband work in the same industry, with Josh serving as an actor, producer and writer. Josh, a fraternal twin, attended high school at Gunn High School located in Palo Alto, California, after which he moved on to Vassar College.
Josh Alexander is known for starring in films like Concurrent, Hey Joel, My Best Friend’s Daughter, Law & Order, and Vamperifica. He was also a writer and producer of documentaries such as Pretty Old, Southern Rites, The Reagan Show, I’m Leaving Now and Prescription Thugs for which he was a writer and co-director.
Its size and other interesting facts
- The actress stands at a petite height of 154.9cm (5ft 1in).
- Aya Cash, of Jewish descent, has a falcon tattooed on her back because she was told her first name means “falcon” in Hebrew. She would discover years later that it actually meant “a honey buzzard”.
- Cash appeared on Law & Order a year before her husband joined the show as a cast member.
- She also worked with Josh on The Bits Between the Two three years before they married. Josh played the character Griffin Klein while Aya played Suzy.
- In 2015, the actress was praised by The AV Club. The online publication called his performance on You’re the Worst the “best performance of 2015”.