Lea Michele who is?

Lea Michele Sarfati (born in Bronx, New York, on August 29, 1986) better known as Lea Michele is an American actress and singer in theater, film and television. She is known for her role as Rachel Berry in the television series Glee, which earned him a nomination for a Golden Globe award in the category of "Best Actress in TV series comedy or musical" and another Emmy for Best Actress - comedy series. And for playing the character Wendla in the musical Spring Awakening, Broadway. Thanks to the latter, she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.

Lea Michele was born on August 29, 1986 in the Bronx in New York City , but grew up in Tenafly, Bergen County , the State of New Jersey where he studied at the Tenafly High School. His mother Edith Michele is an Italian- American Catholic , and his father Marc Sarfati is of Spanish - Sephardic Jewish ancestry. He grew up with both religions , though not attended Hebrew school and had a bat mitzvah not .

Lea was forced to use his name " Michele " instead of " Sarfati " since suffered bullying at school. Michele was accepted into the Tisch School of Arts at New York University , but chose to continue working on stage. I trust that despite his success on stage , he said he never would on television " because I looked too ethnic, too Jewish . So having the opportunity to be in this is amazing . " Lea auditioned for the role of Rachel Berry singing " On my own" inadvertently pianist played no part in the second verse, what Leah said, "You have to do it again , I will do it again and I want everyone to cry " the team laughing Lea told that the role was more than assured her.