In the years since Girls wrapped, show co-creator and star Lena Dunham kept in touch with the cast to varying degrees.
“I, in the book, really share that there were a lot of magical moments,” Dunham said on the Today show in April 2026, referring to her Famesick memoir. “Our entire cast has a sort of bond that I don’t think can ever be broken.”
Dunham created Girls in her early 20s alongside former collaborator Jenni Konner about four women’s lives in New York City. Dunham starred as Hannah Horvath opposite Allison Williams (Marnie Michaels), Jemima Kirke (Jessa Johansson) and Zosia Mamet (Shoshannah Shapiro). Girls ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017.
“If Girls had all appeared when I was a fully formed person, at 33, I would’ve understood how to handle that work, that place, those gifts, those people in a different way,” Dunham told The Guardian in April 2026. “But it was, basically, that I got everything I could’ve dreamed of at a time when I had no ability to handle it. It required a rebuilding, and I’m very happy with where I landed, and very lucky. That’s just life, I guess.”
Keep scrolling to see where Dunham stands with her Girls costars in the near-decade since the show wrapped:
Allison Williams
Allison Williams told Variety in April 2026 that she is in touch with Lena Dunham “all the time.”
“We love each other. It’s a lifelong bond,” Williams gushed. “It’s the best.”
Jemima Kirke
Jemima Kirke and Lena Dunham were childhood friends long before Girls.
“Jemima had something that can only be described using the incredibly irritating term je ne sais quoi, a fragile confidence, a restlessness rooted in knowing she would never be happy,” Dunham wrote in her 2026 book, Famesick, further claiming that Kirke “didn’t like having [Dunham] as a boss.”
Dunham and Kirke have been able to put any bad blood behind them, and they still frequently text one another.
“She will always be a really important part of my life and my story,” Dunham said on a July 2025 appearance on the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast. “She really gave me the confidence also to start directing because to have your best friend act and make you feel that you have what it takes, she really is also a big part of giving me the confidence to do this.”
Zosia Mamet
Zosia Mamet drifted apart from her Girls castmates after the show’s 2017 finale.
“We all kind of got pulled in different directions,” Mamet exclusively told Us Weekly in October 2019. “Some of us have kids and all of us are married, and everybody goes off and does other jobs. So, sometimes it’s hard to keep in touch.”
While Mamet hadn’t stayed close to her former costars, she hasn’t ruled out a potential onscreen reunion.
“I think when you end something, you sort of have to put it in a little special box in your heart somewhere,” she said at the time. “If it were to come back, that would be joyous and wonderful — if not, you’re not, like, holding a candle and waiting, you know?”
Adam Driver
Adam Driver played Lena Dunham’s love interest in Girls. Dunham, however, claimed in Famesick that their relationship was more fraught behind-the-scenes.
“It was absurd to be heartbroken, to have thought I meant anything, that I occupied any role beyond distraction,” Dunham wrote. “I was his scene partner, sure — and so when we were in a scene, his attention was piercing, his presence all-consuming. But in life? It would never be me who kept him in line. I didn’t have the chops. Even at work, I couldn’t do it, in the one place I was meant to make the rules.”
According to Dunham, she and Driver allegedly “fought often.”
Once the show wrapped, Dunham wrote in her book that she “never heard from him again.”
Alex Karpovsky
Alex Karpovsky portrayed Raymond “Ray” Ploshansky on Girls after a longstanding friendship with Lena Dunham in real life.
“I love Lena so much, so the way that I view her is sort of through love goggles. I’ve seen her change and not change,” he told Forward in 2016. “I’ve seen her change in the ways you might expect. She’s becoming more savvy in the way she tells stories visually. I think she’s becoming more nuanced in how she articulates directions to actors to get performances that are more genuine, evocative and funny. I’ve seen her become that much more honest, that much more funny, that much more of a seasoned storyteller.”
Neither Karpovsky nor Dunham have publicly spoken about their friendship status in the years since Girls wrapped.
Andrew Rannells
Andrew Rannells joined Girls in season 2 as Hannah’s college boyfriend, Elijah Krantz. Rannells and Lena Dunham later worked together on Dunham’s 2025 semi-autobiographical series, Too Much.
