Ana Lenchantin is an Argentine-American cellist of French ancestry,[1] known for frequent appearances with American rock bands such as Train, Into the Presence, The Eels, Gnarls Barkley, No Doubt, Arthur Lee and Love, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Brian Wilson, Billy Corgan, Billy Howerdel, Glenn Hughes, Jenny Lewis, Melissa Auf der Maur, Damien Rice, Kerli, Lenka, and many more.
While on tour with Gnarls Barkley in 2006, Ana Lenchantin was contacted by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails to perform and be musical director of the "unplugged" version of NIN at Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit.
Soon after the performance, Trent and strings were in the studio recording the 6 tracks.
In 2009 she returned to perform at the Bridge School Benefit, this time putting a string group together with the band No Doubt.
On September 21, 2009, she appeared in "Broken", the 2 hour season 6 premiere of House M.D., playing a non-communicative cellist confined to a mental institution alongside Gregory House.