Name	Elena Roger
Height
Naionality	Argentina
Date of Birth	27-October-1974
Place of Birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Famous for	Acting

Elena Roger is an Argentine actress who won the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in Piaf. She has also appeared in the West End in Evita, Boeing-Boeing, and Passion.

Prior to being cast as Eva Peron in the West End revival of Evita, Roger was already an accomplished performer in her native Buenos Aires. In 1997, she was nominated for the Trinidad Guevara Award as Best Breakthrough Female for her work in Yo Que Tu Me Enamoraba. She went on to appear in a number of productions including Nine, Houdini, Beauty and the Beast, and Fiddler on the Roof, as well as starring in Les Miserables as Fantine, and Saturday Night Fever as Annette. For the 2002/2003 season, she was nominated for an ACE Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role in Jazz, Swing, Tap. The following season, she starred in the show, Mina...che cosa sei?, which she coauthored with the show’s director, Valeria Ambrosio. Roger won the ACE Award for Best Actress in a Musical for this performance. She has also appeared on several Argentine television programs, including Hombres de Honor, Pensionados, and El sodero de mi vida. Internationally, she briefly toured Europe with Tango por Dos.

Roger can be heard on the cast albums of Mina...che cosa sei? and Evita. She has also recorded two solo albums: Vientos Del Sur and a live album recorded in Buenos Aires entitled Recorriendo el Rock Nacional (Nueva Edi). Roger returned to the role of Eva Peron in a new Broadway revival of Evita with previews beginning in March 2012 and an opening night in April at the Marquis Theatre. The production is directed by Michael Grandage, choreographed by Rob Ashford, and also stars Ricky Martin as Che and Broadway veteran Michael Cerveris as Juan Peron.