1. Lena Hall won the Tony Award for her performance as Yitzhak in the 2014 revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which earned her a Grammy nomination for the musical's official album.
24 Facts About Lena Hall
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Lena Hall 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.
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Lena Hall originated the role of Nicola in the Broadway musical Kinky Boots Her other Broadway credits include Cats, 42nd Street, Dracula, the Musical and Tarzan, the Musical.
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Lena Hall has appeared on TV shows like ABC's All My Children, HBO's Girls, Amazon Prime's Good Girls Revolt, and voiced the role of Countess Coloratura on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
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Lena Hall was the lead singer of the band The Deafening, they released an album with original songs in 2012 titled Central Booking.
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Lena Hall's 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 a yogi master.
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Lena Hall's sister is Calliope "Calli" Carvajal, a hair stylist.
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Lena Hall is a graduate of Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, where she first studied dance, and an alumna of the Young People's Teen Musical Theatre Company in San Francisco.
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Lena Hall is a nice symmetrical name, and it reminds people of Lena Horne, who was a singer.
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Lena Hall later found out that "Carvajal" is actually a stage name taken seven generations back that became a family name.
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Lena Hall said that it was one of the reasons why she was able to let go of the Carvajal name because it was a stage name, and it felt like her ancestors would agree with her name change.
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Lena Hall made her Broadway debut in 1999 in Cats, taking over the role of Demeter after first performing in the national tour in 1998.
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Lena Hall next took over the role of Ann "Anytime Annie" Reilly in 42nd Street.
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Lena Hall performed in a national tour of Annie Get Your Gun, understudying the lead role of Annie Oakley.
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In 2003, Lena Hall appeared in Radiant Baby, a musical about artist Keith Haring, in various roles.
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In 2013, Lena Hall originated the role of Nicola in the musical Kinky Boots, which won the Tony Award for Best Musical at the 67th Tony Awards.
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In 2014, Lena Hall was cast as Yitzhak in the Broadway production Hedwig and the Angry Inch, opposite Neil Patrick Harris, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical at the 68th Tony Awards.
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Lena Hall 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.
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Lena Hall played the roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles alongside Glee star Darren Criss.
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In 2016, Lena Hall played Holly, a seductive yoga instructor in an episode of the HBO series Girls.
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Lena Hall performed the songs along with Tony Vincent for the fictional band "Dog Gone" in the 2015 PBS series Nature Cat.
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In 2017, Lena Hall starred in the role of Pip on Sarah Ruhl's Off-Broadway play How to Transcend a Happy Marriage starring opposite Marisa Tomei at the Lincoln Center.
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Lena Hall released a series of 12 digital EPs titled Obsessed in 2018, one per month.
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In 2021, Lena Hall voice acted in a live-streamed reading of a science fiction screenplay called Aurora by Joe Scott, playing multiple roles.