{"id":615835,"date":"2026-09-06T01:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615835\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T01:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T01:46:09","slug":"disney-legend-lea-salonga-honored-with-hollywood-walk-of-fame-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/615835\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Legend Lea Salonga Honored with Hollywood Walk of Fame Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disney Legend Lea Salonga was recently honored with a star on the equally legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/09\/Disney-Legenda-Lea-Salonga-Honored-as-First-Filipina-on-the-Hollywood-Walk-of-Fame.png\" data-fslightbox=\"15\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"871\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/w871.png\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s Happening:<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, September 4th, Disney Legend Lea Salonga was honored as the 2,855th star along Hollywood Blvd\u2019s Hollywood Walk of Fame.\u00a0Salonga was honored in the live theatre category and is the first Filipina to get a star.\u00a0The live-streamed ceremony included words from Ming-Na, Brandy, and Darren Criss.\u00a0For Disney fans, Lea Salonga brought two of the biggest Disney Princesses singing voices to life in the 1990s with Jasmine and Mulan.\u00a0Beyond Disney, Salonga has brought several major characters to life on stage.\u00a0Salonga got her big break in 1989, starring as the original Kim in Miss Saigon.She opened the show in the West End before moving with the show to Broadway in 1991.She went on to win Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World awards for her portrayal.\u00a0A few years later in 1993, Salonga became the first Asian actress to play Eponine in Les Miserables, and returned to the second French Revolution in 2006 as Fantine.\u00a0You can check out the full ceremony below, which starts a 20:20. <\/p>\n<p>Read More Disney Princess:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney Legend Lea Salonga was recently honored with a star on the equally legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-615835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}