Lea Salonga

Birthday: Feb 22, 1971
Birthplace: Manila, Philippines

Bio: Lea Salonga-Chien is a Tony Award-winning actress from the Philippines who achieved international recognition for her portrayal of Kim, the lead role in the musical Miss Saigon. She is the first Asian to play Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on broadway. She is of Filipino descent.On January 10, 2004, she married Robert Charles Chien, a Chinese-Japanese… More Bio: Lea Salonga-Chien is a Tony Award-winning actress from the Philippines who achieved international recognition for her portrayal of Kim, the lead role in the musical Miss Saigon. She is the first Asian to play Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on broadway. She is of Filipino descent.On January 10, 2004, she married Robert Charles Chien, a Chinese-Japanese managing director of an entertainment software company. Their first daughter together, Nicole Beverly, was born on May 16, 2006.Salonga's Disney film credits include the singing voice of Princess Jasmine for Aladdin (1992), and Fa Mulan for Mulan (1998), as well as the voice of Mrs. Kusakabe (Satsuki and Mei's mother) in Disney's 2005 English dub of Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro.