Lea Michele

Lea Michele Sarfati (born August 29, 1986) is an American actress, singer, songwriter, and author.
She began her career as a child actress on Broadway, appearing in productions of Les Misérables (1995–1996), Ragtime (1997–1999), Fiddler on the Roof (2004–2005), and Spring Awakening (2006–2008). Michele came to prominence playing Rachel Berry on the Fox series Glee (2009–2015), for which she received an Emmy Award nomination, two Golden Globe nominations and won four People's Choice Awards, three Teen Choice Awards and a Satellite Award. Michele and the rest of the Glee cast earned a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series from four nominations and three Grammy Award nominations for music recorded for the series, also spawning multiple hits on the Billboard charts. Michele subsequently starred as Hester Ulrich on the Fox series Scream Queens (2015–2016) and as Valentina Barella on the ABC sitcom The Mayor (2017). Michele made her feature film debut in New Year's Eve (2011), and was signed to Columbia Records in 2012. She released her debut single the following year, "Cannonball", followed by her debut studio album, Louder (2014), which debuted at number 4 on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States.
==Personal Life==
Michele began working with actor Cory Monteith in 2008, when they were cast as love interests on Glee. On February 3, 2012, she and co-star Cory Monteith had begun dating. They broke up on July 13, 2013 causing a bit of tension on the set of Glee during Season 5. On June 12, 2016 she began dating Zandy Reich. They became engaged on April 28, 2018. They were married on March 9, 2019, in Napa, California. They have one child. Michele gave birth to a boy named Ever Leo on August 20, 2020.
==Filmography==
===Film===
Year	Title 	Character
1998	Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night	Christina (voice)
2011	Glee: The 3D Concert Movie 	Rachel Berry
2011	New Year's Eve 	Elise
2014	Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return 	Dorothy Gale (voice)
TBA 	Untitled Warner Animation Group 	Polar Bear (singing voice)
===Television===
Year 	Title 	Character 	Episodes
2000 	Third Watch 	Sammi 	1 episode
2009–2015	Glee 	Rachel Berry 	128 episodes
2010 	The Simpsons 	Sarah (voice) 	1 episode
2011 	The Cleveland Show 	Rachel Berry (voice)	1 episode
2014 	Sons of Anarchy 	Gertie 	1 episode
2015–2016	Scream Queens 	Hester Ulrich 	23 episodes
2017 	Dimension 404 	Amanda 	1 episode
2017–2018	The Mayor 	Valentina Barella 	13 episodes
2019 	Same Time, Next Christmas	Olivia Henderson 	Film
===Theater===
Year 	Title 	Character
1995–1996	Les Misérables 	Young Cosette
1997 	Ragtime 	Little Girl
1998–1999	Ragtime 	Little Girl
2004 	The Diary of Anne Frank	Anne Frank
2004–2005	Fiddler on the Roof 	Shprintze
2006 	Hot and Sweet 	Naleen
2006 	Spring Awakening 	Wendla Bergmann
2006–2008	Spring Awakening 	Wendla Bergmann
2008 	Alive in the World 	Phoebe
2008 	Les Misérables 	Éponine Thénardier
2010 	The Rocky Horror Show 	Janet Weiss
2019 	The Little Mermaid 	Princess Ariel
==Discography==
===Studio Albums===
*Louder (2013)
*Places (2017)
== Author ==
* Brunette Ambition (2014)
* You First: Journal Your Way to Your Best Life (2015)