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Lena Hall
Born
Celina Consuela Gabriella Carvajal

(1980-01-30) January 30, 1980 (age 44)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Actress, singer
Years active1998–present
Spouse
Jonathan Stein
​
(m. 2019)​
Websitelenahall.com

Lena Hall (born Celina Consuela Gabriella Carvajal on January 30, 1980

Cats, 42nd Street, Dracula, the Musical, and Tarzan, the Musical
.

She released her debut album, Sin & Salvation: Live At the Carlyle, in 2015. Her notable television appearances include All My Children (2008), Girls (2016), and a starring role in Snowpiercer. Hall has also appeared in multiple films, including Sex and the City (2008), The Graduates (2008), The Big Gay Musical (2009), and Becks (2017).

Early life

Hall was born in

Filipino
, Spanish, and Swedish ancestry. Her paternal grandfather immigrated to San Francisco from the Philippines in 1926, and her paternal grandmother is Swedish.

She attended the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, where she studied dance. As a youth, she also participated in the Young People's Teen Musical Theatre Company in San Francisco. Her first notable performance was when she sang in front of 50,000 people, including Pope John Paul II, at Candlestick Park in San Francisco when she was 7.

Career

Musical theatre

At 18 years old, Hall was cast in the touring company of Cats.[1] During the tour, she performed the dual roles of Demeter, Bombalurina, and Cassandra. After she left the tour in 1999, Hall made her Broadway debut when she joined the Broadway cast of Cats.[2] Hall understudied the role of Demeter, before leaving the show in 2000.

Following this, Hall joined the national tour of Annie Get Your Gun, a musical that is a fictional retelling of the life of Annie Oakley.[3] She was an understudy for the lead role of Annie Oakley. After the tour ended in late-2000, she performed in the dancing ensemble of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. The production was an Encores! staged concert performed at the New York City Center.

In 2001, Hall joined the Broadway revival of 42nd Street, playing the role of Annie. She remained with the show for over a year. In 2003, she was a part of the ensemble in the world premiere production of Radiant Baby.[4] The short lived musical about Keith Haring premiered off-Broadway at the The Public Theater. Hall remained with the show throughout the run. Hall also performed a one-night-only benefit concert called, Back in Black, at a gay bar in New York in support of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.[5]

In 2004, she joined the Broadway production of Dracula, the Musical as a member of the ensemble and as the second vampire.[6] The musical received negative reviews, and closed after only 154 performances.[7] Shortly thereafter, Hall joined the world premiere production of Tarzan, a musical adaptation of the 1999 film of the same name.[8] The musical premiered on Broadway on May 10, 2006, and was the first Disney theatrical production to premiere on Broadway without an out-of-town tryout.[8] She was a member of the ensemble and an understudy to the lead role of Jane Porter. As a member of the original Broadway cast, Hall appeared on the cast recording of the musical.

In 2008, she participated in the reality show

Legally Blonde: The Musical – The Search for Elle Woods. She was the third contestant eliminated.[9]

Between 2008 and 2009, Hall appeared in multiple off-Broadway productions. She starred in the musical Green Eyes[10], and then the world premiere of Bedbugs!!! at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.[11][12] In 2009, she was the understudy for the role of Monica P. Miller in the musical Rooms: A Rock Romance.[13] Also in 2009, she took over the lead role of Sarah in the musical The Toxic Avenger at the New World Stages.[14]

In 2012, Hall originated the role of Nicola in the musical

Tony Award for Best Musical. She departed the production on March 2, 2014.[15]

In 2023, Hall was cast in the lead role of Kenna in the world premiere production of In Dreams at Leeds Playhouse. She will continue on in the role when the musical makes its North American premiere at the Ed Mirvish Theatre in Toronto.

Music

In 2013, her band The Deafening released an album with original songs titled "Central Booking".[16]

On September 28, 2015, Hall released her first solo album, Sin & Salvation: Live At the Carlyle, featuring her renditions of songs from artists such as

Hozier, and James Brown. The album was recorded at the Carlyle Hotel during Hall's musical show Sin & Salvation, which ran for two weeks.[17]

In 2015, Hall toured North America alongside Josh Groban on his Stages concert tour.[18]

Hall released a series of 12 digital EPs titled Obsessed in 2018, one per month. The January release consists of selections from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, while each of the others features her renditions of several songs by a different artist.

Film and television

Her TV work include 9 episodes of All My Children in the role of Treena in 2009, Juicy Lucy in Good Girls Revolt (2015), the voice of Countess Coloratura/Rara in the 115th episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, titled "The Mane Attraction".[19][20]

In 2016, Hall played a seductive yoga instructor in an episode of the HBO series Girls.[21] She also performs the songs along with Tony Vincent for the fictional band "Dog Gone" in the 2015 PBS series Nature Cat.[22]

She has appeared in five movies: Sex and the City (2008), The Graduates (2008), Born from the Foot (2009), The Big Gay Musical (2009), and Becks (2017), in which she plays the title role and her first leading role in a feature film,[23] and received widespread critical acclaim for her performance.[24] which won the U.S. Fiction Award at the LA Film Festival.[25]



In 2011, she performed as Daughter of the Ocean in the musical Prometheus Bound,[26] inspired by Aeschylus's Ancient Greek tragedy, at the American Repertory Theater,[27] and also appeared as Blaze in the musical Chix6.[28]

In 2014, Hall was cast as Yitzhak in the Broadway production Hedwig and the Angry Inch,[29] (a role previously played off-Broadway by Miriam Shor) opposite Neil Patrick Harris, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.[30] She left the role on April 4, 2015, after playing Yitzhak opposite Harris, Darren Criss, Michael C. Hall, Andrew Rannells and John Cameron Mitchell as Hedwig. In 2016, she was cast in the national tour of Hedwig, which opened on October 2, 2016, reprising her role as Yitzhak, and for one performance a week, playing the title role of Hedwig for a total of eight performances in Los Angeles and San Francisco,[31] making her the first actor to play both roles in the same production.[32] She played the roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles alongside Glee star Darren Criss.[33]

In 2017, Hall starred in the role of Pip on

Lincoln Center
.

In 2021, Hall voice acted in a live-streamed reading of a science fiction screenplay called Aurora by Joe Scott, playing multiple roles. The reading, which served as Scott's YouTube channel's Halloween special and centered around the Aurora, Texas, UFO incident, saw its proceeds donated to Team Seas.[34]

Personal life

In December 2018, she announced her engagement to Jonathan Stein.[35] They married on May 27, 2019.[36]

Hall is a supporter of the LGBT community.

In 2022, Hall spoke out in support of the need for intimacy coordinators on film and television sets.[37] Her support came after her Snowpiercer co-star, Sean Bean, said that they "ruin the spontaneity of sex scenes".

Theater credits

Year Production Role Location Category
1998–1999 Cats Demeter/Bombalurina/Cassandra National tour
1999–2000 Demeter Winter Garden Theatre Broadway
2000 Annie Get Your Gun Annie Oakley National tour
2000 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever Ensemble New York City Center Encores! staged concert
2001 42nd Street Annie
Lyric Theatre
 Broadway
2003 Radiant Baby Ensemble The Public Theater Off-Broadway, World premiere
2004 Dracula, the Musical Ensemble / Second Vampire Belasco Theatre Broadway
2006-2007 Tarzan, the Musical Ensemble, u/s Jane Porter Richard Rodgers Theatre Broadway, World premiere
2008 Green Eyes Theater 80 Off-Broadway
2008 Bedbugs!!! Carly New York Musical Theatre Festival, World premiere
2009 Rooms: A Rock Romance Monica P. Miller New World Stages Off-Broadway
2009 The Toxic Avenger Sarah New World Stages Off-Broadway
2010 The Last Goodbye Rosaline Williamstown Theatre Festival, World premiere
2011 Prometheus Bound Daughter of the Ocean American Repertory Theater World premiere
2011 Chix6 Blaze Queens Theatre in the Park World premiere
2012 Kinky Boots Nicola
Bank of America Theatre
 Pre-Broadway engagement: Chicago; World premiere
2013–2014 Al Hirschfeld Theatre Broadway
2014–2015 Hedwig and the Angry Inch Yitzhak Belasco Theatre Broadway
2016 Yitzhak, alt. Hedwig First National Tour
2017 How to Transcend a Happy Marriage Pip
Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
 Off-Broadway
2019
Bat Out Of Hell
 		Sloane New York City Center Off-Broadway
2022–2023 Little Shop of Horrors Audrey Westside Theatre Off-Broadway
2022 Chess Florence Vassey Broadhurst Theatre Benefit Concert
2023 In Dreams Kenna Leeds Playhouse World premiere
Ed Mirvish Theatre North American premiere: Toronto

Sources:[38][39][40]

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  2. ^ Milzhoff, Rebecca (29 July 2016). "7 Former Cats Cast Members on Learning to Play Feline". Vulture. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  3. ^ Jones, Chris (August 14, 2000). "Annie Get Your Gun". Variety. Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  4. ^ Isherwood, Charles (March 2, 2003). "Radiant Baby". Variety. Archived from the original on March 30, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
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  6. ^ Jones, Kenneth (27 May 2004). "Full Cast of Dracula, the Musical Includes Battle, Hoch, O'Hara, Stephenson; Tix on Sale June 6". Playbill. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
  7. ^ "Dracula, the Musical to Close on January 2". Theater Mania. 8 December 2004. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
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  9. ^ "Where are they now?: Legally Blonde – The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods". Stage Door Dish. September 3, 2013. Archived from the original on May 6, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
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  36. ^ @lenarockerhall (27 May 2020). "1 year has gone by so fast". Retrieved 24 October 2021 – via Instagram.
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