Lena Hall
| Lena Hall | |
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Lena Hall in 2015
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Celina Consuela Gabriella Carvajal |
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January 30, 1980 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Genres | rock, blues, glam rock, broadway |
| Occupation(s) | actress, singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 1998–present |
| Website | http://www.lenahall.com/ |
Lena Hall (Celina Consuela Gabriella Carvajal) (born January 30, 1980) is an American actress, singer and songwriter. She is known for being the lead singer of the band The Deafening and for her work on Broadway, including originating the role of Nicola in Kinky Boots and her Tony Award-winning performance as Yitzhak in the 2014 revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which also earned her a Grammy nomination for the musical's album. She made history by becoming the first person to play both Hedwig and Yitzhak in the same production during the national tour of the musical in 2016.
Her other Broadway credits include Cats, 42nd Street, Dracula, the Musical and Tarzan, the Musical. Off-Broadway credits include Radiant Baby, Bedbugs!!!, Rooms: A Rock Romance, The Toxic Avenger, Prometheus Bound, Chix6, and the 2017 original play How to Transcend a Happy Marriage. Her band, The Deafening, released an album with original songs in 2012 titled Central Booking.
Hall was born Celina Consuela Gabriella Carvajal in San Francisco, California on January 30, 1980 to Carlos and Carolyn (née Houser) Carvajal. Her father is a ballet dancer, choreographer and the co-artistic director for the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, her mother was a prima ballerina and is now a yogi master.
She has Filipino,Spanish, and Swedish ancestry through her father. Her paternal grandfather arrived from the Philippines to San Francisco in 1926, and her paternal grandmother is Swedish. Her sister is Calliope "Calli" Carvajal, a hair stylist.
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