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Lea Michele met Ryan Murphy, the creator of Glee, in 2007. After Lea Michele auditioned for (and nabbed) the part of Rachel Berry the following year, Ryan told Lea Michele he had developed the role with her in mind. The pilot episode of Glee aired in May 2009, earning Lea Michele a nomination for a 2009 Teen Choice Award in the TV: Breakout Star Female category. Talk about making an impression! Lea Michele was also nominated for a 2010 Golden Globe in the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Series category, and Lea Michele took home a 2010 SAG award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Comedy Series and a 2009 Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Series, Comedy, or Musical. Rachel would be proud of all Lea Michele accolades!

Lea Michele Hairstyles

Lea Michele’s big screen debut in New Year’s Eve has yet to hit theaters, but Lea Michele may already be on the way to securing her next movie. The Glee actress has auditioned for the film version of Les Misérables, with one source telling the New York Post that Lea Michele “knocked it out of the park.” But Lea Michele’s up against some stiff vocal and acting competition, with Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, and True Blood’s Evan Rachel Wood all also vying for the role of Eponine. If Lea Michele lands the coveted gig, Lea Michele’ll get to work alongside Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, and other A-listers. Not a bad next step for the Broadway-turned-TV-turned-almost-movie star — it’s only a matter of time before Lea Michele’s singing a different “Glee spinoff” tune.

Lea Michele Hairstyles

We cLea Michelerly weren't the only ones who noticed Lea Michele (Rachel)‘s significant weight loss between Glee’s first and second seasons, but home-girl gets a lot of flack for her 2010 extreme makeover slash alleged starvation diet. But the Glee diva fired back at those rumors and insists Lea Michele can put away just as much food as anyone else. "I'm half-Italian," Lea Michele assured Allure (via Us Weekly), whose December cover Lea Michele graces. "I can eat some bitches under the table!" Whoa. Watch out, Snooki. Lea Michele coming after your chicken parm — soy chicken parm, that is. Yes, Lea Michele admits that Lea Michele maintains her weight by eating vegan and cutting out a lot of her traditional pasta-based family faves. As for her initial weight loss? Apparently Lea Michele got jaw surgery that summer and was forced to stay on some kind of liquid diet. Oookay.But, in all seriousness, Lea Michele eats. Lea Michele promises. "People get confused," Lea Michele says of her strict no animal product policy. "[They assume] I just eat grass."

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Lea Michele (Rachel) is quite the magazine queen, isn’t Lea Michele? Not even a month after Glamour named her one of their Women of the Year, the Glee goddess is back on newsstands as the cover girl for Allure’s December 2011 issue! On November 15, Lea Michele tweeted a photo of the gorgeous photo, saying, “Check out the cover! I'm rocking my natural Italian/Jewish hair! Haha...Hope you guys like it!” We love it. Especially the dramatic eye makeup which seems inspired by another Hollywood goddess, Sophia Loren.

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Lea Michele Sarfati (born August 29, 1986 in the Bronx, New York City, U.S), known professionally as Lea Michele, is an American actress and singer. Lea Michele debuted on Broadway in 1995 as a replacement in the role of Young Cosette in the original New York production of Les Miserables. This was followed by her performance of the role of Tateh’s daughter, the Little Girl, in the 1998 original Broadway cast of Ragtime. In 2004, Lea Michele played “Shprintze” and “Chava” in the Broadway revival of the musical Fiddler on the Roof. Regionally, Lea Michele has appeared in the title role in The Diary of Anne Frank.

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Since the age of 14, Lea Michele played the role of Wendla in Steven Sater and Duncan Lea Micheleik’s musical version of Spring Awakening since early workshops; following it up to the Broadway production. Around the same time the show was set to go to Broadway, Lea Michele was given the role of Eponine in the Broadway revival of Les Misérables. Lea Michele chose to remain with Spring Awakening, which debuted on Broadway December 10, 2006. Lea Michele was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for her performance in Spring Awakening, as Lea Micheled Actress in a Musical. On May 18, 2008, Lea Michele left Spring Awakening with co-star Jonathan Groff and was replaced by former Wendla understudy Alexandra Socha. Lea Michele performed in a reading of Lea Micheleik and Sater’s new musical, Nero, in July 2008 at Vassar College, also featuring Idina Menzel and Michael Arden. On August 8, 9 and 10, 2008, Lea Michele portrayed Eponine in the Hollywood Bowl’s Les Misérables concert.

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Lea Michele beauty comes at us in shades of brown, from her luscious dark hair to her gloriously sun-kissed skin tone into her exuberant if entreating doe-eyes. On Glee Lea Michele almost always dressed in a long, smart skirt and a button-down blouse, highlighting the preppy, teacher's pet about her that we should hate, but Lea Michele is endearing, not despite of, but because of those most obnoxious traits. A young woman with the talent to pull that off is already hot. Throw in her long history on Broadway, which includes starring in a hit musical with masturbation, S&M, and nudity, and Lea Michele is starting to scratch us right where we itch.

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Although Lea Michele been in numerous Broadway and off-Broadway musicals, none have brought her the kind of attention -- awards and otherwise -- as the coming-of-age Spring Awakening, and for good reason. Not only does Lea Michele perform the role of Wendla with aching brilliance, Lea Michele also drops her top and takes part in "a beating scene," though these moments arguably had little to do with her recognition by Broadway.com's Audience Awards as giving the year's Female Breakthrough Performance, among other accolades. As a singer of uncommon beauty, Lea Michele's vocal chops have been preserved for posterity on a 2003 recording of Fiddler on the Roof, and on original Broadway cast recordings of Ragtime and Spring Awakening.

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Lea Michele is “obsessed” with Gwyneth Paltrow. The Glee actress struck up a friendship with the blonde beauty when Lea Michele guested on the musical TV drama series and always turns to her when Lea Michele needs advice. “I am obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow,” Lea Michele said. Recalling the day they met, when Lea Michele had to rehearse a Chicago dance routine, Lea Michele added, “I was nervous and said, ‘I don’t think I can do that dance move.’ Lea Michele said, ‘You can do it.’ Lea Michele wasn’t afraid of anything. “I love talking with Gwyneth. Lea Michele just gives good advice. Lea Michele said, ‘Don’t ever read anything about you.’ ” Though Lea Michele will Lea Micheleve Glee when her character Rachel Berry graduates at the end of the third season, Lea Michele insists it won’t mean an end to her career and Lea Michele is keen to return to theatre acting, as well as appearing in films and recording an album.