Aya Cash

Aya Rachel Cash is an American actress born in San Francisco, California, to a poet and novelist mother, Kim Addonizio, and a Buddhist teacher father, Eugene Cash. Her maternal side boasts impressive lineage, with her being the granddaughter of renowned tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie. In fact, her father's upstairs neighbor, Margarita Landazuri, was one of the first employees at Turner Classic Movies and played a significant role in nurturing Cash's passion for acting and film. Furthermore, her father's family is Jewish, while her mother's ancestry is Catholic and Italian. Cash herself identifies as Jewish, and notes that her surname "originally something like 'CH-irsch'".