Background
Renée was born and raised in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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She attended Central Dauphin East High School and graduated with a degree in Music from Baldwin Wallace University in 2013.
Career
She is best known for her roles on Broadway as The Witch in Big Fish and the Leading Player in Pippin, as well as portraying Esmeralda of The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Paper Mill Playhouse and Louisiana Jolla Playhouse. She stars as Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl in the CW series District of Columbia"s Legends of Tomorrow, a spin-off of Arrow and The Flash. In September 2013, Renée made her Broadway debut at the Neil Simon as The Witch in Big Fish after working in a pre-Broadway workshop of Bulletin 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 National Broadcasting Company. 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 Louisiana Jolla Playhouse from March 15 to April 5 of 2015, a performance the New York Daily News described as "earthy and lovely". In March of 2015, it was announced that Renée had been cast as Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl in The CW"s spin-off series District of Columbia"s Legends of Tomorrow, an expansion of the network"s existing universe of District of Columbia 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.
