Lauren Ash Canadian Actress Born 1983 in Belleville

Career

Lauren Ash was born on 4 February 1983 in Belleville, Ontario, and works as an actress, comedian, writer and musician. Her path into screen work ran through improvised and sketch comedy. She is an alumna of the Second City Toronto Mainstage and forms half of a sketch duo called Cory!. In the mid-2000s she won Canadian Comedy Awards for best female improviser in 2006 and 2007, and her troupe took the best sketch troupe prize in 2006. In 2008 she also won in the best comedic play category.

Her early television work included parts in the series Scare Tactics and the Canadian series Almost Heroes, as well as a recurring role in The Ron James Show. She made guest appearances in Lost Girl, Cracked, Bomb Girls and Call Me Fitz, and she voiced Sam Goldman in the animated series The Dating Guy. Her first listed film credit is Lars and the Real Girl, from 2007, a film nominated for an Academy Award. She was also seen in the American comedy Super Fun Night alongside Rebel Wilson and Liza Lapira, and took over the part of Hortense in the first season of Another Period after the pilot. In 2015 she appeared in the film Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2.

The role for which she is most widely recognised is Dina Fox, a character in the NBC sitcom Superstore, which she played from 2015 to 2021 and for which she also wrote an episode. During those years she voiced Scorpia in the animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, from 2018 to 2020. In April 2021 Variety reported that she had signed a talent and development deal with NBCUniversal that included writing a half-hour comedy pilot with Universal Television. The same year she starred in the Netflix animated comedy Chicago Party Aunt. In 2023 she joined the cast of Not Dead Yet as Lexi Rhodes; the series ended in 2024 after two seasons.

Alongside her screen roles, Ash began hosting a weekly podcast called True Crime and Cocktails in 2020 with her cousin Christy Oxborrow.

She started a music career in 2023 with a pair of singles and in October of that year released the three-song EP Sad This Christmas. She has described her sound as early-2000s pop-punk. In 2025 she put out the singles and videos "Whiplash", "Cool Story, Bro" and "Dumpster Fire", with the second video featuring former Superstore castmates. Her debut studio album, Call Me When You Get This, came out in September 2025.

Recognition

Ash's comedy awards continued into her television career. She won a Canadian Comedy Award for best female performance on television for Almost Heroes in 2012, and a Canadian Screen Award for best supporting actress in a comedy series, at the third Canadian Screen Awards, for her guest appearance on Spun Out. In 2015 she received a Canadian Comedy Award for best female performance in a feature film, for playing Carol in Dirty Singles. In July 2025 "Whiplash" was nominated for Best Rock/Pop Song at the Hollywood Independent Music Awards.