
In context
- When
- Friday, October 19 199036 years ago
- Category
- BirthA notable person born on this day. Each links to a person page with their dates and story.
- Era
- 20th century · 1990s
- Recorded from
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- Person
- Ciara Renée
At a glance
Born 1990-10-19.
Known as: actor, television actor, stage actor, and musician. Citizenship: United States.
Listed as: human.
Who they were
Ciara Renée Harper is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles on Broadway as The Witch in Big Fish, the Leading Player in Pippin, Jenna in Waitress, and Elsa in Frozen. She played Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Paper Mill Playhouse and La Jolla Playhouse. In 2015, she guest starred as Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl in episodes of CW series Arrow and The Flash, before reprising the role in the main cast for the first season of the associated series DC's Legends of Tomorrow,
Early life
Educated at: Central Dauphin East High School and Baldwin Wallace University.
Early life Renée was born and raised in Harrisburg , Pennsylvania . [ 1 ] She attended Central Dauphin East High School and graduated with a degree in Music Theatre from Baldwin Wallace University in 2013. [ 1 ] ^ a b Dunkle, David N. (February 28, 2014). "CD East graduate Ciara Renee gains starring role in Broadway hit musical 'Pippin' " . PennLive.com . Archived from the original on July 13, 2020.
Path and career
Career In September 2013, [ 1 ] Renée made her Broadway debut at the Neil Simon Theatre as The Witch in Big Fish [ 2 ] after working in a pre-Broadway workshop of Bull Durham . [ 3 ] In February of the following year, she was cast in a revival of the musical Pippin , replacing Patina Miller as the Leading Player. [ 3 ] Renée guest-starred on Law & Order: SVU in the fall of 2014 on NBC . [ 4 ] Based on the Victor Hugo novel and animated Disney film of the same name,
Why this date
Ciara Renée appears on our October 19 calendar for 1990 as a birth entry.
October 19 through the years
Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.
- 1990Ciara Renée
- 2003Mother Teresa
- 2004Corporate Airlines Flight 5966
- 2005Hurricane Wilma
- 2005Saddam Hussein
- 2012Assassination of Wissam al-Hassan
- 20132013 Buenos Aires train crash
- 2013YouTube
- 2017Robert Weryk
- 2019House of Lords
- 2025French Crown Jewels
Also in 1990
- September 91990 Batticaloa massacreBatticaloa massacre: Massacre of 184 Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Army in Batticaloa District.
- September 11Faucett PerúA Faucett Boeing 727 disappears in the Atlantic Ocean while being flown from Malta to Peru.
- September 12Allied Control CouncilThe two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for G…
- September 12Red Cross Society of ChinaThe Red Cross organizations of mainland China and Taiwan sign the Kinmen Agreement on repatriation of illegal immigrants and criminal sus…
- September 16DostykThe railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eu…
- September 18LiechtensteinLiechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.
- September 5Sri Lankan civil warSri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers slaughter 158 civilians.
- November 17Mount UnzenFugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.
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