Background
Dunham was born in New York City.
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Dunham attended Saint Ann"s School in New York City where they wrote for the school newspaper and yearbook and spoke at their graduation. They graduated from Brown University in May 2014 with a degree in urban studies.
Career
Their older sister, Lena, is the creator and star of the Home Box Office series Girls. Dunham identifies as genderqueer and uses they/them pronouns. Dunham"s first film appearance was in the 2006 short Dealing as June, a 13-year-old art dealer.
Dealing was written and directed by Dunham"s older sister, Lena.
Dunham later starred in the 2010 feature film Tiny Furniture as Nadine, the younger sister of Aura, played by Lena, who also wrote and directed the film. Dunham was a contributing writer for the student weekly The College Hill Independent in Providence, Rhode Island.
They have contributed articles to The New Yorker, and catalog essays for Transgender Hirstory in 99 Objects: Legends and Mythologies at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, and UNCOUNTED: Call & Response at Vienna Secession amongst others In November 2015 Dunham interviewed transgender rights activist Janet Mock for Buzzfeed"s Women Of The Hour podcast.
Dunham stars as Junior in the forthcoming film Happy Birthday, Marsha! about the transgender activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera in the hours before the Stonewall riots.
They also appeared in artists A.K. Burns" multi-channel video installation A Smeary Spot. Passages in Lena"s memoir Not That Kind of Girl which recount childhood interactions between then-seven-year-old Lena and then one-year-old Grace attracted controversy for their perceived sexual nature. Experts described these passages as either too ambiguous to judge, or as describing behavior consistent with normal childhood development.
Grace publicly rejected claims by media commentators that the behavior was harmful.
On November 3, 2014, Dunham responded to the controversy over Twitter:
As a queer person: i"m committed to people narrating their own experiences, determining for themselves what has and has not been harmful / heteronormativity deems certain behaviours harmful, and others "normal". The state and media are always invested in maintaining that / 2day, like every other day, is a good day to think about how we police the sexualities of young women, queer, and transport people.
