Aya Cash

Who is Aya Cash?

Aya Cash is an American actress, 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. An alumnus of the San Francisco School of the Arts as well as the University of Minnesota, Cash has appeared on television series such as Brotherhood, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent and Mercy and Season 2 of HBO's The Newsroom. She has also appeared in the WB pilot Spellbound and the Fox pilot Strange Brew. Cash's film credits include Immunization DAY, The Oranges, Winter of Frozen Dreams, Off Jackson Avenue and The Bits In Between.

Cash has been seen onstage in New York at the Atlantic Theater Company, Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, The Rattlestick, and Ars Nova. She has appeared regionally at Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkshire Theater Festival, Great River Shakespeare Festival and The Denver Center.

Cash was a series regular in the 2011 Fox comedy Traffic Light.

Cash played a wife in the low budget 2013 film The Happy House.