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Shoshanna Shapiro
Shoshanna Shapiro is one of the protagonists of HBO's Girls. She is portrayed by actress Zosia Mamet.
Bio[]
Shoshanna is the only child of Melvin and Melanie Shapiro (both are called "Mel"), who divorced sometime when Shoshanna was little. Shoshanna has an older cousin named Jessa. When Shoshanna was in High School, she worked as a camp counselor during the summer. She also had a friend named Kelly who was killed in a car accident. At the start of the series, Shoshanna is in her junior year at NYU, majoring in marketing.
Season One[]
In the Pilot , Shoshanna allows Jessa to move in with her. Shoshanna joins the girls on a trip to a women's clinic in Vagina Panic, where Jessa is scheduled to get an abortion, and Hannah an STD test. Before arriving, she stopped for snacks, assuming there would be a long wait. While Hannah gets her test, Shosh reveals to Marnie that she's never actually had sex and is, by definition, a virgin.
In the following episode, Hannah goes to Shosh's apartment, where she reveals that she has HPV. In turn, Shoshanna reveals she i
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Twelve years ago, we met Shoshanna Shapiro for the first time. In the opening episode of “Girls,” Lena Dunham’s critically-acclaimed television show about friendship and finding oneself in your twenties, a chipper young woman emerges from behind a red door in a pink Juicy tracksuit and says, “Bonjour, roomie.” And then: “You’re so hip I could puke.” She’s talking to her cousin Jessa Johansson, who seems to tolerate her in exchange for a place to crash. And that’s how Shosh — the Jewish hero of “Girls” — entered our lives. She may not have been the lead of the show, but she was the lead of our hearts.
Shoshanna, played by Zosia Mamet, starts the show as a business student at NYU. She is brought into the core friend group — comprised of Hannah (Lena Dunham), Marnie (Allison Williams) and her cousin Jessa Johansson (Jemima Kirke), all girls who are slightly older than she is — by Jessa. Shoshanna worships her cousin, calling her “painfully pretty” and “so fucking classy,” which is why she wants to join the friend group in the first place and which establishes an uneven social dynami
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Zosia Mamet
American actress (born 1988)
Zosia Mamet (; born February 2, 1988)[2] is an American actress. She is known for her breakout role as Shoshanna Shapiro in the HBO series Girls.[3]
Mamet also starred as Annie Mouradian in the HBO Max original series The Flight Attendant[4] and Pampinea in the Netflix series The Decameron.[5]
Early life
Mamet is the daughter of American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director David Mamet and actress Lindsay Crouse. Her father is the grandson of Polish Jews[6] and she says her given name is Polish and Russian.[7] Her father is Jewish and her mother is Buddhist, and Mamet identifies as Jewish as well.[citation needed] Her maternal grandfather was playwright Russel Crouse and her maternal great-grandfather was educator John Erskine. She has a sister, Willa, who is a singer, and two half-siblings: Clara, also an actress and director; and Noah. She lived in New England until age five when her mother moved to Pacific Palisades, California
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