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Lea Michele continues: "I knew what I wanted to be and I didn't let other people influence me or change who I was to fit a certain mould. Like getting a nose job, for example. I didn't want to get a nose job, because other people said you should, because everyone else in my high school [Tenafly High School in New Jersey] was doing it, and that's what I love most about Rachel and what I can relate to."

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Her nose has become a bit of a trademark. Lea Michele claims that her mother, Edith, an Italian American Roman Catholic nurse, would always tell her growing up that Streisand never went under a knife so nor should Lea Michele. Lea Michele calls Italians "My people" despite her father, Marc Sarfati, a delicatessen owner, being of Spanish-Sephardic Jewish origin.

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The actress faced more difficult questions about another body part when her weight seemed to nosedive in 2010 and talk of her being an anorexic began to surface. However, a year on and in person Lea Michele doesn't look thinner than any other actress in a strenuous role. Lea Michele puts the weight loss down to a jaw operation.

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Of course, there is nothing wrong with the nose of the dark-haired star, one of Glee's poster girls. Lea Michele says that filming in LA and being away from the Empire State is the only drawback to her career on Glee. "The only hard thing about my job is that I'm a New Yorker through and through, and my family is from there so filming in New York is always my wish."

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Her parents encouraged her at a young age. Lea Michele attended Stagedoor Manor in the Catskills, of which Robert Downey Jr is a former alumnus, and Lea Michele landed her first part on Broadway at the age of eight, as a replacement young Cosette in Les Misérables.

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Having also appeared in Ragtime and Fidler on the Roof, her love of Broadway is cLea Michelerly stronger than her love of film. Lea Michele admits that one of the highlights of working on Glee was "New York", the episode filmed on the stage of Wicked.

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We were crazy kleptomaniacs running around thinking what can we steal. We couldn't because everything was massive or chained down, they probably knew that we were coming, Lea Michele chimes. "I found a broom and I was riding around and they couldn't get the broom out of my hand."

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With filming of Season 3 due to end in 2012, the big question is what will happen to Lea Michele. Ryan Murphy has revealed that the character will graduate. At first, the assumption was that Lea Michele would Lea Micheleve the show, although this has been retracted somewhat with a statement that, although they will graduate from high school, that will not necessarily mean the end for the characters. Like the rest of the cast, Lea Michele is extremely careful not to reveal any plot points or secrets of the show, stating that they only know what is going to happen when they receive the scripts.

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Rachel on Glee is named after Rachel from Friends, a part played by Jennifer Aniston. The New Yorker need only look at the rollercoaster movie career of Aniston for a warning of how difficult the transition to the silver screen can be for a TV star.