dunham later starred in the 2010 feature film "tiny furniture" as nadine, the younger sister of aura, played by lena, who also wrote and directed the film. "tiny furniture", which also featured lena and cyrus's real-life mother laurie simmons, was shot at the family's actual home in new york's tribeca neighborhood and the three characters portrayed by cyrus, lena, and their mother are based loosely on themselves.