Lindsey Normington
Acting
Biography
Lindsey Elaine Normington (born 24 July 1996) is an actress, director, writer, and stripper best known for her role as Diamond, the antagonistic coworker of the titular character in Sean Baker's Palme d'Or and Academy Award-winning film Anora (2024). She also organized the first unionized strip club in the United States. Normington grew up in Rockford, Michigan. At age 7, she saw a high school production of Little Shop of Horrors which inspired her to perform in plays and musicals all throughout her childhood and teenage years. She graduated from Grand Valley State University (GVSU) in 2018, where she played Sally Bowles in a college production of Cabaret. In 2018, as a senior at GVSU, she created a one-person show called Figurehead that was an official selection at the 2019 United Solo Festival in New York City, where she earned the award of Best Emerging Actress In 2023, Normington co-directed the narrative short How To (Without A Doubt) Get Rich And Famous In LA that won the Open Projector Night award from the Grand Rapids Film Society. Normington has appeared on television as a background dancer in The Idol and Blindspotting, in music videos for Five Finger Death Punch, Ghost, girl in red and She Past Away, as well as a lead actress in several short films. In 2024, she played a supporting role in Anora. In 2025, she had a speaking role in the HBO series Hacks and was added to the cast of Margot's Got Money Troubles. In 2023, she played an active role in organizing the only unionized strip club in the United States, the Star Garden in Hollywood.
Known For
Explore a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.
Hacks
The daughter of a former Hooter's waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo is a recent college dropout and aspiring writer. Faced with a new baby, mounting pile of bills, and dwindling number of ways to pay them, Margo must find a way forward.
Margo's Got Money Troubles
After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD.
Elsbeth
A look at the personal and professional lives of the judges, lawyers, clerks, bailiffs and cops who work at an L.A. County courthouse.
All Rise
A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.
Anora
After a nervous breakdown derailed Jocelyn's last tour, she’s determined to claim her rightful status as the greatest and sexiest pop star in America. Her passions are reignited by Tedros, a nightclub impresario with a sordid past. Will her romantic awakening take her to glorious new heights or the deepest and darkest depths of her soul?
The Idol
A pair of idiot friends believe that if they become waiters, all of their problems will be solved. They aren't entirely wrong, but they aren't entirely right.
Busboys
A 1970s Los Angeles therapy collective rises with utopian promise before devolving into a business-minded cult built on control and abuse.
Going Sane: The Rise and Fall of the Center for Feeling Therapy
A film about Snuffing: A multi-billion dollar industry where people intentionally die on camera, with the intent of being revived.
Snuff Queen
A Mormon couple ties the knot.
Together Forever
Wildcard addict on the run from trouble shows up bloodied and battered at the door of his home health aide ex-girlfriend, turning both their lives upside down in this super dark comedy about love, death, drugs, and ferrets.
Vomit
Two cousins reunite after a long time apart- one who has fallen into a spiral of drug use, and one who has become a vampire.
We'll Still Be Here
A young woman processes her evolving relationship with her best friend and her increasingly surreal dreams as she encounters absurdity and provocation at work.
Sandbagger
Caroline, moving back to the US after two years abroad with her surprise fiancé Rick, asks her best friend and ex-girlfriend, Amanda, to be her Maid of Honor, forcing them to navigate a wild and hilarious rollercoaster of love and friendship as Amanda tries to win back the love of her life.
Maid of Dishonor
Three best friends reunite for a party-filled weekend, only to have their night spiral into danger and self-discovery, drawing focus to the sexual pressures teenage girls face.
Pismo
A junkie decides to come clean from abusing an analog VR drug called FaceTape only to find his life outside of his addiction is far from stable.
FaceTape
While on a road trip through desolate lands, Madison grapples with the complications of a night she can't remember.
Borderline
When Kelly and Lindsey take a sketchy modeling job, things get weird.
How To (Without A Doubt) Get Rich And Famous In LA
On the eve of a landmark deal for a major tech startup, they're faced with a sexual assault controversy that threatens to become a PR disaster. As new hire Sam works to contain the fallout, it becomes clear that not all is as it seems, and she quickly finds herself in a game of cat and mouse with a criminal organization taking aim at the company and their investors.
Compliance
Two girls, with Erewhon smoothie and Juul in hand, observe an innocently unbothered man as he waits for the bus.