Lindsey Normington

Acting

Lindsey Normington

Born 1996-06-24 · Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

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.

Acting credits

Anora poster
7.1

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

2024

Busboys poster
4.4

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

2026

No artwork available
NR

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

Together Forever poster
NR

A Mormon couple ties the knot.

Together Forever

2026

Muscle Beach poster
NR

After soaring high and flaming out in Hollywood, Abe, a celebrated bodybuilder, returns home across the 405 to Venice Beach, where it all started. But Abe's beloved boardwalk feels different. There’s a nasty bite to the sea breeze, a slew of unexplained overdoses putting the gym rats on edge, strange supernatural sightings on the pier hinting at something primordial lurking beneath the surface of sun-dappled Venice. And Jay—his old lifting partner, his former roommate, the one person he truly abandoned in his pursuit of fame—has disappeared, leaving Alice, his ex, alone to take care of their infant son.

Muscle Beach

2026

Compliance poster
NR

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

2026

Vomit poster
NR

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

2026

Going Sane: The Rise and Fall of the Center for Feeling Therapy poster
NR

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

2026

We'll Still Be Here poster
NR

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

2025

Lifewasters poster
7.0

Short film regarding lolcows and parasocial relationships from indie animator Victoria Vincent

Lifewasters

2025

Snuff Queen poster
4.0

A film about Snuffing: A multi-billion dollar industry where people intentionally die on camera, with the intent of being revived.

Snuff Queen

2023

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
NR

A tigh-knit group of friends are stocked by a masked killer while on a bachelorette weekend at a ski chalet.

Bach Sh*t Crazy

FaceTape poster
NR

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

2026

Anti-Gone poster
NR

This bold and visually outstanding piece employs motion capture technology and open-world-video-game mechanics to shape digital worlds in real-time. The story unfolds around Spyda and Lynxa, a couple navigating an apocalyptic, post-climate change world where environmental disaster and social unrest are constant.

Anti-Gone

Sandbagger poster
1.7

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

2019

Normie poster
NR

Two girls, with Erewhon smoothie and Juul in hand, observe an innocently unbothered man as he waits for the bus.

Normie

2025

Reference Movements poster
NR

Jackie wears a motion capture suit for 30 days and has her every move recorded in exchange for $25,000.

Reference Movements

2023

Borderline poster
NR

While on a road trip through desolate lands, Madison grapples with the complications of a night she can't remember.

Borderline

2022

Lindsey's Choice poster
NR

Lindsey must make a devastating choice.

Lindsey's Choice

It Lives in the Screen poster
NR

Two struggling artists in Los Angeles are drawn into a mysterious relationship with a computer virus named Cupid.

It Lives in the Screen

2026

How To (Without A Doubt) Get Rich And Famous In LA poster
NR

When Kelly and Lindsey take a sketchy modeling job, things get weird.

How To (Without A Doubt) Get Rich And Famous In LA

2020

Behind the camera