Lea Salonga
Filipino singer and actress
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2025 | Appeared on Finding Your Roots and guest-starred on The Cleaning Lady. |
2025 | Set to star in the upcoming short film The Vale – Origins and launch the North American leg of the Stage, Screen & Everything In Between tour in the fall. |
August 2025 | Returned to the Philippines to reprise her role as The Witch in Into the Woods, starring alongside Arielle Jacobs. |
July 3 2025 | Announced to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. |
2025 | Set to appear in 'KPop Demon Hunters'. |
2025 | Scheduled to appear in the stage production of 'Into the Woods'. |
May 2025 | Will be honored with the Award for Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theater at the 91st Annual Drama League Awards. |
April 2025 | Made a guest star appearance on the crime drama series The Cleaning Lady. |
March 2025 | Began reprising performances in Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. |
March 2025 | Announced as a special guest at Harmony, the annual gala of the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, where she presented the Gary Miller Award to George Takei for his LGBTQ activism. |
January 2025 | Made a guest appearance on an episode of Finding Your Roots. |
January 2025 | Supported her son Nic, who began taking testosterone after realizing his transmasculine identity at age 14. |
January 2025 | Salonga made a guest appearance on an episode of Finding Your Roots. |
2024 | Continued starring in the West End production of Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends. |
2024 | Scheduled to perform at the 98th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and have a recurring role in Pretty Little Liars: Summer School. |
November 2024 | Released Sounding Joy, her first holiday album in over two decades, performed on the Sesame Street float at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and embarked on the Sounding Joy: The Holiday Tour in the United States. |
November 1 2024 | Released Sounding Joy, her first holiday album in over two decades. |
October 2024 | Starred in the Filipino production of 'Request sa Radyo' (Wunschkonzert) at the Samsung Performing Arts Center in Manila, alternating the lead role with Dolly de Leon. |
September 2024 | Featured as a wax figure in the Madame Tussauds Singapore museum's Music Zone, wearing a blue 'workhouse gown' by Filipino designer Rajo Laurel. |
June 2024 | Salonga publicly expressed support for her child Nic, who came out as transmasculine at age 14. |
June 2024 | Appeared in the audio fiction series Does This Murder Make Me Look Gay?! and began her third U.K. concert tour, Stage, Screen & Everything In Between. |
May 2024 | Reprised her role as Elodie in Pretty Little Liars: Summer School. |
2023 | Recognized by Gold House with the Gold Legend Honor. |
2023 | Recorded Christmas songs with The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square for the 'Season of Light' album in the USA |
2023 | Presented at the Laurence Olivier Awards on ITV and appeared in a documentary special short film 'Who I Am Inside' on Hulu. |
2023 | Lea Salonga voiced Mulan in the Disney short film Once Upon a Studio |
2023 | Salonga performed in the original West End production of 'Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends' at Gielgud Theatre. |
July 2023 | Performed as Aurora Aquino in the original Broadway production of Here Lies Love. |
April 26 2023 | Performed for U.S. President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, and other world leaders at a White House state dinner. |
April 2 2023 | Presented at the 2023 Laurence Olivier Awards. |
March 13 2023 | Performed at the annual Broadway Backwards event at the New Amsterdam Theatre. |
2022 | Narrated an episode of American Experience, performed at the National Memorial Day Concert, and played a main role as Elodie Honrada in 8 episodes of Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin on Max. |
December 15 2022 | Performed with The Tabernacle Choir as featured guest artist in a series of Christmas concerts in Salt Lake City, Utah. |
October 27 2022 | Featured on Pentatonix's cover of Jose Mari Chan's 'Christmas In Our Hearts' in their Christmas album. |
September 2022 | Recognized by TIME magazine at the TIME100 Impact Awards as a 'life-long role model for children of color'. |
September 2022 | Began portraying Mama Soubirous in the Indie Theatrical workshop of the new musical adaptation of The Song of Bernadette in Manhattan. |
July 28 2022 | Premiered in the critically acclaimed series Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin on HBO Max, portraying character Elodie Honrada. |
June 18 2022 | Continued her tour in the United Kingdom. |
May 2022 | Performed 'The Prayer' at the National Memorial Day Concert in Washington, D.C., broadcast on PBS. |
April 6 2022 | Lea Salonga began her Dream Again Tour in the United States and Canada. |
2021 | Lea Salonga participated in the collaborative single 'Bayaning Tunay' with Various Artists, released in the Philippines. |
2021 | Voiced a Mysterious Woman in 6 episodes of Centaurworld on Netflix and performed in the television special 'United in Song: Celebrating the American Dream'. |
December 25 2021 | Returned to Dubai to perform a Christmas concert for Expo 2020 at the Dubai Exhibition Centre. |
October 2021 | Announced a tour of the United States and Canada. |
September 2021 | Announced her Dream Again Tour, named after her 2020 single. |
April 21 2021 | Salonga participated in the #AAPI Women Strong: Organizing Beyond A Hashtag forum, where she appeared alongside Lucy Liu, Hillary Clinton, and other activists to share experiences and raise awareness about anti-Asian hate. |
March 29 2021 | Lea Salonga publicly condemned the rise of violent attacks on Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic, speaking out against racial prejudice. |
2020 | Won Female Concert Performer of the Year at the Box Office Entertainment Awards. |
2020 | Salonga returned to coach on The Voice Teens. |
2020 | Narrated the audiobook 'The Contractors' by Lisa Ko, published by Amazon Original Stories. |
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