Lauren Elizabeth Ash (born February 4, 1983) is a Canadian actress and comedian based in Los Angeles, but originally from

Belleville, Ontario Belleville is a city in Ontario, Canada situated on the eastern end of Lake Ontario, located at the mouth of the Moira River and on the Bay of Quinte. Belleville is between Ottawa and Toronto, along the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. Its population ...

. Ash is best known among television audiences for her role as Dina Fox on the sitcom '' Superstore''. She is also an alumna of both Second City Toronto Mainstage and Second City Chicago mainstage and is one half of sketch comedy duo "Cory!" She is a two-time

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winner for Best Female Improviser in 2006 and 2007 and has also won for Best Performance by a Female - Television for ''

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'' in 2012 and in 2015 won Best Female Performance in a Feature Film for her role as Carol in the movie ''Dirty Singles''. She also appeared in the prank show "Scare Tactics". Since 2020, Lauren co-hosts her own podcast, "True Crime and Cocktails" along with her cousin, Christy Oxborrow.

Career

Ash has played various roles in ''

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'' as well as the Canadian TV series ''Almost Heroes'' where she won the Canadian Comedy Award for Best Female Improviser. She also won Best Comedic Play in 2008 and Best Sketch Troupe in 2006. She had a recurring role in ''

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'' and made guest appearances in ''

Lost Girl ''Lost Girl'' is a Canadian supernatural drama television series that premiered on Showcase on September 12, 2010, and ran for five seasons. It follows the life of a bisexual succubus named Bo, played by Anna Silk, as she learns to control ...

'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

Call Me Fitz ''Call Me Fitz'' is a Canadian television series produced by E1 Entertainment, Amaze Film & Television, and Big Motion Pictures. The half-hour comedy stars Jason Priestley as Richard "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, a morally bankrupt used-car salesman whos ...

''. Other film and television credits include ''Video on Trial'', '' Hotbox'' and the Academy Award-nominated film ''

Lars and the Real Girl ''Lars and the Real Girl'' is a 2007 romantic comedy-drama film written by Nancy Oliver and directed by Craig Gillespie. It stars Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, and Patricia Clarkson. The film follows Lars (Gosling) ...

''. She was also the voice of Sam Goldman in the animated Canadian series ''

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''. She was part of the American sitcom ''

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'' alongside

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and

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. She previously appeared in the first season

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series ''

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'' as Hortense, having taken over the role from

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who played her in the pilot. She won the

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for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the

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''. Ash starred as Dina Fox from 2015-2021 on the

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sitcom '' Superstore''. From 2018 to 2020, she voiced Scorpia in

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. In 2020, she began a weekly podcast titled ''True Crime and Cocktails'' with her cousin Christy Oxborrow. On April 13, 2021,

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reported that Ash had inked an overall talent and development deal with

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. She will also write a half-hour comedy pilot with Universal Television as part of her contract. She also starred in the Netflix animated comedy

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in the same year.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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