Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario is an American photojournalist. She began photographing professionally for the Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina in 1996. In the late 1990s, she began freelancing in New York City for the Associated Press, where she worked consistently for three years before moving to New Delhi, India, to cover South Asia for the Chrstian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, and Houston Chronicle.

In 2000, Addario first traveled to Afghanistan to document life and oppression of women living under the Taliban, and made three separate trips to the country under Taliban rule before September 11, 2001. Since then, Addario has covered conflicts, humanitarian crises, and women’s issues in Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, Darfur, South Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen, Syria, and Ukraine. In 2015, she wrote a New York Times best-selling memoir, It's What I Do.

Lynsey Addario is known for work in acting across film and television. New Release currently presents 5 verified screen credits connected to this profile.

Selected work includes Love+War (2025), Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (2018), The Way I See It (2020), Underfire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro (2016), Refugee (2016).

The recorded credits span 2016 to 2025, including 4 movies and 1 TV show. The filmography below lists available titles, release years and known roles.

This profile is updated as additional verified information becomes available.