--- name: "Aya Cash" canonical: "https://film.one/person/aya-cash" roles: ["Actor"] born: "13 July 1982" reviewed_on_fi1m: 4 average_fi1m_score: 72 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-17T19:11:11.671211+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Aya Cash Actor. Born 13 July 1982 in San Francisco, California, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 13 July 1982, San Francisco, California, USA - **Active:** 2013–2019 - **Also known as:** Aya Rachel Cash, 아야 캐쉬, アヤ・レイチェル・キャッシュ, آیا کش - **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 3 acting, 1 other - **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 62 across 3 titles - **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 2, Crime 1 - **Screen time:** 3 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $407m across 1 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Cash, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4830761, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2251731/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/133451 ## Coming up - *Giant* (2026-11-19) ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*You're the Worst*](https://film.one/tv/youre-the-worst.md) (76), [*Fosse/Verdon*](https://film.one/tv/fosse-verdon.md) (58) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Aya Cash > Aya Cash plays women who talk fast so that nobody notices what they are not saying. Her Gretchen Cutler in *You're the Worst* is the case for her: quick, funny, careless on the surface, and able, when the show asked it, to hold a room in silence. Watch what Aya Cash does with a laugh. As Gretchen Cutler in *You're the Worst* (2014), it arrives a beat too early, before the line has finished, so that it reads as a decision rather than a reaction. She leaves rooms the same way, before anyone can ask her to stay. Stephen Falk's comedy is about two people who insist they are not a couple, and Cash's contribution is to make Gretchen's speed look like confidence for about three episodes and then let us see it is nerves. She came to it from the stage. Cash trained as an actor at the University of Minnesota, finished in 2004, and spent the next years in off-Broadway work and television guest parts. There was a series regular role in *Traffic Light* (2011), a Fox sitcom that did not last, and a small part as Janet, Jordan's assistant, in *The Wolf of Wall Street* (2013). Then Gretchen, for five series, from 2014 to 2019. Since the show ended she has played Stormfront in *The Boys* (2020 onwards), and she made her Broadway debut as Jessie Stone in *Giant* (2026). Gretchen remains the work to judge her by, and it is the one we have reviewed. Opposite Chris Geere's Jimmy, a novelist whose contempt has become a habit, she talks over him and past him, and the writers, Eva Anderson, Franklin Hardy and Shane Kosakowski among them, give the pair things a real couple might say. When they lie to each other it is funny because we can see them both deciding to be lied to. Then, in the second series, the show does something with Gretchen that we will not describe. Cash plays much of it without speaking, and Falk refuses to let it turn into a lesson. We came for jokes about narcissists and found ourselves sitting still with the remote in our hand, not ready to start the next episode. The comedy carried on in the next room while this happened, and that is what made her stillness land: nobody on screen was asking us to feel anything. Critics have mostly seen her the way we do, as an actor for acerbic, self-destructive women who use wit as cover, and that is a flattering description of a narrow lane. Stormfront is an antagonist, and villainy is where that manner goes when nobody writes the quiet half. Cash herself has said, of her character, "You fall in love with someone for their worst qualities or what they would think of as their flaws." It is a good account of Gretchen and a warning about the parts that follow her. A stage role in a new play is at least a different room. If you have not met her, start with *You're the Worst*, and give it past the pilot; she does. ## Biography Aya Cash is an American actress. She trained at the San Francisco School of the Arts and graduated with a BFA in acting from the University of Minnesota in 2004. Cash is known for her leading role as Gretchen Cutler in the FX/FXX series *You're the Worst* (2014–2019) and for playing Joan Simon in the FX miniseries *Fosse/Verdon* (2019). Other credits include appearances in *The Wolf of Wall Street* (2013), *Begin Again* (2014), *The Boys* (2019–) as Stormfront, and *Welcome to Flatch* (2022–2023). She received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for her work in *You're the Worst*. In 2012 she married actor and producer Josh Alexander. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (4) ### Performed in (3) — the average rests on these - *Fosse/Verdon* (2019), Fi1m 58, as Joan Simon — [page](https://film.one/tv/fosse-verdon.md) - *You're the Worst* (2014), Fi1m 76, as Gretchen Cutler — [page](https://film.one/tv/youre-the-worst.md) - *The Wolf of Wall Street* (2013), Fi1m 82, as Janet (Jordan's Assistant) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-wolf-of-wall-street.md) ### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited - *The Boys* (2019), Fi1m 72, as Klara Risinger / Stormfront (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-boys.md) ## Complete filmography (48) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Giant* (2026), Acting - *Slay* (2026), Acting - *The Brink of War* (2026), as Cleo - *Bruton* (2026), as Sienna Bruton - *The Floaters* (2026), as Rabbi Rachel - *Kill Me* (2026), as Alice - *Adult Children* (2025), as Dahlia - *The Sacrifice* (2025), Acting - *Death Wish* (2024), as Reporter 2 (voice) - *The Franchise* (2024), series, as Anita Yarnell - *The Young Wife* (2023), as Rose - *The Girl from Plainville* (2022), series, as Katie Rayburn - *Welcome to Flatch* (2022), series, as Cheryl Peterson - *We Broke Up* (2021), as Lori - *Scare Me* (2020), as Fanny - *The Boys* (2019), series, as Klara Risinger / Stormfront, Klara Risinger / Stormfront (archive footage) — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-boys.md) - *Fosse/Verdon* (2019), series, as Joan Simon — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/tv/fosse-verdon.md) - *Social Animals* (2018), as Jane - *Explained* (2018), series, as Narrator (voice) - *Mary Goes Round* (2018), as Mary Jackson - *Game Over, Man!* (2018), as Cassie - *Will & Grace* (2017), series, as Olivia Walker - *Brand New Old Love* (2017), as Hannah Becker - *Village People* (2017), as Barbara - *All Exchanges Final* (2017), as Dom, Executive Producer - *Easy* (2016), series, as Sherri - *10 Crosby* (2016), as Aya - *You're the Worst* (2014), series, as Gretchen Cutler — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/youre-the-worst.md) - *Begin Again* (2014), as Jenny - *Loitering with Intent* (2014), Acting - *Sirens* (2014), series, as Cindy - *The Wolf of Wall Street* (2013), as Janet (Jordan's Assistant) — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-wolf-of-wall-street.md) - *We Are Men* (2013), series, as Claire - *The Happy House* (2013), as Wendy - *Sleepwalk with Me* (2012), as Hannah - *The Newsroom* (2012), series, as Shelly Wexler - *The Oranges* (2011), as Maya - *Traffic Light* (2011), series, as Callie - *Modern Family* (2009), series, as Vanessa — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/modern-family.md) - *The Good Wife* (2009), series, as Amber Audrey — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-wife.md) - *Winter of Frozen Dreams* (2009), as Prostitute - *Deception* (2008), as Secretary #2 - *Off Jackson Avenue* (2008), as Olga - *American Dad!* (2005), series, as Jody the Waitress (voice) - *Law & Order: Criminal Intent* (2001), series, as Lori - *Law & Order: Special Victims Unit* (1999), series, as Katrina Lychkoff - *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Janine Lesko — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md) - *Vought Rising*, series, as Clara Vought / Liberty, Producer ## Gallery - ![The amazing Gretchen on You're The Worst. NYC Feb '18. (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/446011/gallery-2b449cd77a98.jpg) The amazing Gretchen on You're The Worst. NYC Feb '18. (2018) — Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Aya_Cash_%2839444944415%29.jpg/1280px-Aya_Cash_%2839444944415%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![The amazing Gretchen on You're The Worst. NYC Feb '18. (2018)](https://film.one/media/person/446011/gallery-8bb3fb745862.jpg) The amazing Gretchen on You're The Worst. NYC Feb '18. (2018) — Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Aya_Cash_%2839444944415%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Actress Aya Cash at FX Networks new series premieres of You're the Worst and Married at Paramount Studios on July 14, 2014](https://film.one/media/person/446011/gallery-c79a4e9388ce.jpg) Actress Aya Cash at FX Networks new series premieres of You're the Worst and Married at Paramount Studios on July 14, 2014 — Mingle Media TV, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Aya_Cash_July_14%2C_2014.jpg/1280px-Aya_Cash_July_14%2C_2014.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Aya Cash](https://film.one/media/person/446011/gallery-900d03ca61f1.jpg) Aya Cash — Mingle Media TV, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Aya_Cash_July_14%2C_2014_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Aya_Cash_July_14%2C_2014_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Aya Cash](https://film.one/media/person/446011/gallery-a70f7552da8f.jpg) Aya Cash — Image via TMDB - ![Aya Cash](https://film.one/media/person/446011/gallery-28bbf0c48e22.jpg) Aya Cash — Image via TMDB - ![Aya Cash](https://film.one/media/person/446011/gallery-b4bdc9c5835d.jpg) Aya Cash — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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