Hannah Einbinder

Hannah Einbinder (born May 21, 1995) is an American actress and stand-up comedian. She is best known for her starring role as struggling comedy writer Ava Daniels in the HBO Max dramedy series Hacks (2021-2026), for which she received various accolades including a Primetime Emmy Award and Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as nominations for four Golden Globes. Einbinder made her starring film debut in the 2026 comedy Seekers of Infinite Love. She is the daughter of original Saturday Night Live cast member Laraine Newman and writer/director Chad Einbinder, and grew up in Los Angeles in a Jewish family.

As a teenager, Einbinder was a competitive cheerleader. She graduated from Beverly Hills High School and went on to study broadcast journalism at Chapman University before earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in television writing and production. At Chapman, she joined the school's improv team and had her first experience with stand-up comedy when she opened for Nicole Byer for a campus show. In 2019, she appeared in the Just for Laughs festival's New Faces showcase and was named by National Public Radio as one of the 10 standout comedians to watch.

In March 2020, she made her national television debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, at the time the youngest person to do a stand-up set on the show. Starting in 2021, she co-starred as Ava Daniels in Hacks alongside Jean Smart and Carl Clemons-Hopkins, with the show receiving 15 Emmy nominations. Max released her debut stand-up special, Hannah Einbinder: Everything Must Go, in June 2024. In September 2025, she won her first Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in Hacks Season 4. Einbinder has cited Dana Gould, Janeane Garofalo, Bo Burnham, Maria Bamford, Marc Maron and Steve Martin as among her inspirations.