Lea Michele Sarfati
Lea Michele Sarfati born
August 29, 1986, known professionally as Lea Michele, is an American
actress and singer, best known for her performance as Rachel Berry on
theFox television series Glee.
Michele's portrayal of Rachel has received much critical praise and has earned
her two Golden Globe nominations and an Emmy nomination.
Michele began working professionally as a child actress on Broadway in productions such as Les Misérables, Ragtime,
and Fiddler on the Roof. In 2006, she originated
the lead role of Wendla in the Broadway musical Spring
Awakening.
Michele was born in the Bronx, New York City.
She is the only child of Edith, a nurse, and Marc Sarfati, a delicatessen owner. Her
mother is Italian American and Roman
Catholic, while her father is a Spanish Sephardic Jew. Michele
was raised Catholic, and has stated that her father "gladly" attends
church with her and her mother. She grew up in Tenafly, New Jersey. She attended Rockland Country Day School for
elementary school in New York and then Tenafly High School. Michele was home
schooled one year while working in Toronto, Ontario on Ragtime.
She attended Stagedoor Manor in the Catskills,
a center for performing arts training. She was then later accepted to the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, but opted instead to
continue working professionally on the stage.
Michele adopted her
stage name at an early age; when she went on her first audition, she gave her
name as "Lea Michele," and has used it ever since. She has stated
that she changed it because she was teased about the pronunciation of her last
name.
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