Cash was born in San Francisco, California, to poet and novelist Kim Addonizio and Buddhist teacher Eugene Cash. On her mother's side, she is the granddaughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie. Her father's family is Jewish, while her mother is Catholic.[2][3] Cash has described herself as Jewish,[2] and explained that their surname "was originally something like 'CH-irsch'."[2]
In 2019, she was cast as neo-Nazi Stormfront in the second season of the Prime Video superhero dark comedy-drama series The Boys. The second season premiered in September 2020.[10]
In 2020, Cash was cast as local newspaper reporter Cheryl Peterson in a pilot for a Fox sitcom titled This Country. The title was later changed to Welcome to Flatch, which premiered in 2022.[11]
Additionally, Cash has appeared on Off-Broadway.[14] In 2014, she starred in the world premiere of Zoe Kazan's play Trudy And Max In Love.[8]
Personal life
Cash met writer and producer Josh Alexander[2] when she was his waitress. They dated for seven years before marrying in 2012.[15] They reside together in New York City.[16][2]
Cash both identifies as Jewish[2] and was raised Jewish, but no longer practices the religion, stating, "my mother is Catholic, my father is Jewish, but I was raised Jewish in a very not strict temple [...] then I chose, after my Bat Mitzvah, not to continue." Although she also mentioned that she has participated in Jewish holidays over the years, but not in many of them in recent years.[17]
Cash said that she has a hawk tattooed on her back because she was told that Aya means "hawk" in Hebrew. However, when she visited Israel she was told that "Aya" (איה) is an archaic word for "hawk", though it is, in fact, the Modern Hebrew word for "honey buzzard", a different bird of prey.[2]
Cash is a celebrity ambassador for INARA, an NGO that helps war-wounded refugee children from Syria get medical help.[18]
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