Lyonne was born Natasha Braunstein in New York City, the daughter of Yvette Lyonne, a product licensing consultant, and Aaron Braunstein, a native of Brooklyn who worked as a boxing promoter.[1][2][3] Lyonne grew up in an Orthodox Jewish household and lived in Israel with her family during her childhood;[4] her maternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors.[1][5] When her parents divorced, Lyonne moved back to New York and lived with her mother and older brother Adam in a one-bedroom apartment. In New York - en.wikipedia.org