Lena Hall

Celina Consuela Gabriella Carvajal (born January 30, 1980),[1] known professionally as Lena Hall, is an American actress and singer.

!, Rooms: A Rock Romance, The Toxic Avenger, Prometheus Bound, Chix6, Little Shop of Horrors, and the 2017 original play How to Transcend a Happy Marriage.

Hall has appeared in films such as Sex and the City (2008), The Graduates (2008), Born from the Foot (2009), The Big Gay Musical (2009), and Becks (2017), for which she received widespread critical acclaim.

[7] Hall was the lead singer of the band The Deafening, they released an album with original songs in 2012 titled Central Booking.

Her father is a ballet dancer, choreographer and the co-artistic director for the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival;[9] her mother was a prima ballerina and is now a yogi master.

[18] Her first big break was singing for Pope John Paul II at Candlestick Park in San Francisco for over 50,000 people at the age of 7.

[8] In 2014, Hall was cast as Yitzhak in the Broadway production Hedwig and the Angry Inch,[12] (a role previously played off-Broadway by Miriam Shor) opposite Neil Patrick Harris, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

[38] She 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.

[42] On September 28, 2015, Hall released her first solo album, Sin & Salvation: Live At the Carlyle, featuring her renditions of songs from artists such as Led Zeppelin, Tori Amos, Hozier, and James Brown.

The album was recorded at the Carlyle Hotel during Hall's musical show Sin & Salvation, which ran for two weeks.

In 2021, Hall voice acted in a live-streamed reading of a science fiction screenplay called Aurora by Joe Scott, playing multiple roles.

The reading, which served as Scott's YouTube channel's Halloween special and centered around the Aurora, Texas, UFO incident, saw its proceeds donated to Team Seas.