Aya Cash

Aya Cash

Biographical Information

Full Name

Aya Rachel Cash

Birth

July 13, 1982

Origin

San Francisco, California, United States

Gender

Female

Occupation

Actress

Partner

Josh Alexander (m. 2012)

Years Active

2006-present

Series Information

Character

Gretchen Cutler

Episodes

62

Aya Rachel Cash is an American television, film and stage actress. She portrayed main character Gretchen Cutler in every season of the FXX comedy drama series You’re the Worst.

Biography

Cash is the daughter of poet and novelist Kim Addonizio and Buddhist teacher Eugene Cash, and the granddaughter of Wimbledon champion Pauline Betz Addie and sportswriter Bob Addie.

She is an alumna of the San Francisco School of the Arts and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater Actor Training Program.

Career

Filmography

• Social Animals 92018)
• Game Over, Man! (2018)
• Brand New Old Love (2018)
• Mary Goes Round (2017)
• Big Brother Volcano (2017)
• All Exchanges Final (Short) (2016)
• 10 Crosby (Short) (2016)
• Flirting with Love (2014)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• Being Again (2013)
• The Happy House (2013)
• Sleepwalk with Me (2012)
• Friday Night Dinner (2012)
• The Oranges (2011)
• Strange Brew (2010)
• The Bits in Between (2009)
• Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009)
• Deception (2008)
• Off Jackson Avenue (2008)
• Spellbound (2007)

Television

• You’re the Worst (2014 – 2018)
• Easy (2016-2017)
• American Dad! (2016)
• The Walker (2015)
• The Good Wife (2015)
• Modern Family (2015)
• We Are Men (2013)
• The Newsroom (2013)
• A Gifted Man (2012)
• Traffic Light (2011)
• Mercy (2010)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2009)
• Brotherhood (2007)
• In Men We Trust (2006)
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2006)
• Law & Order (2006)

Theater

Additionally, Cash has numerous Off-Broadway credits, and in 2014 starred in the world premiere of Zoe Kazan’s play Trudy And Max In Love.

Notes and Trivia

• She is the daughter of award-winning poet and novelist Kim Addonizio and the granddaughter of Pauline Betz.
• Cash graduated from the Guthrie BFA acting program at the University of Minnesota.
• Cash is a graduate of San Francisco School of the Arts.
• In 2013, Cash was named one of the “Backstage 30” actors about to “break out” in Backstage.
• In 2014 she was named one of “10 Comic Actresses Who Deserve A Big-Screen Leading Role” by Indiwire.com
• Cash is a resident of New York City.