Lea Michele

Lea Michele Sarfati , known professionally as Lea Michele, is an American actress, singer, and author. She is known for her role as Rachel Berry on the Fox comedydrama series Glee . Micheles performance received critical praise, earning her a Satellite Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and three consecutive Peoples Choice Awards. Since 2015, she has portrayed Hester Ulrich on Foxs horrorcomedy series Scream Queens.

Lea Michele Sarfati was born in the Bronx, New York, the only child of Edith Thomasina , a retired nurse, and Mark David Sarfati, a real estate agent and former delicatessen owner. Her mother is Italian American and Catholic, while her father is a Sephardic Jew with ancestors from Thessaloniki, Greece. Michele was raised Catholic, and has stated that her father gladly attended church with her and her mother. Michele spent the first four years of her life living in the Bronx, until she and her parents moved to the more suburban area of Tenafly, New Jersey. The family also rented an apartment in Manhattan, where they would live when Michele was performing on Broadway. Michele was educated at Rockland Country Day School for elementary school in Congers, New York.

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