Ciara Renee

Renée was born and raised in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She attended Central Dauphin East High School and graduated with a degree in Music Theatre from Baldwin Wallace University in 2013.\n', ' In September 2013, Renée made her Broadway debut at the Neil Simon Theatre as The Witch in Big Fish after working in a pre-Broadway workshop of Bull Durham. In February of the following year, she was cast in a revival of the musical Pippin, replacing Patina Miller as the Leading Player. Renée guest-starred on Law & Order: SVU in the fall of 2014 on NBC. Based on the Victor Hugo novel and animated Disney film of the same name, Renée took on the role of Esmeralda in a musical adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at the Paper Mill Playhouse in association with the La Jolla Playhouse from March 15 to April 5 of 2015, a performance the NY Daily News described as "earthy and lovely". In March 2015, it was announced that Renée had been cast as Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl in The CW\'s spin-off series DC\'s Legends of Tomorrow, an expansion of the network\'s existing universe of DC Comics adaptations. She joins co-stars Caity Lotz, Brandon Routh, Franz Drameh, Dominic Purcell, Victor Garber, Wentworth Miller, and Arthur Darvill. Renée made a special guest appearance as Kendra Saunders on the first-season finale of The Flash on May 20, 2015.\n', ' In 2016, Renée played Susan in the Off-Broadway revival of Jonathan Larson\'s autobiographical musical Tick, Tick... Boom!. The production ran from October 20 to December 18.\n', '