The 2010 TIME 100 Poll

Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators and icons who you think are the most influential people in the world. Though official voting for inclusion on the TIME 100 list has now closed, with Mir-Hossein Mousavi having won the honor, users can continue to vote for their favorites until the list is revealed on Thursday, April 29th

2010 Candidates

Lea Michele

By TIME STAFFThursday, Apr. 01, 2010
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Age: 23
Occupation: Singer and actress
Previous TIME 100 Appearances: 0

Michele made her Broadway debut at age 8 and won rabid fans as Wendla in the Tony Award–winning Broadway production of Spring Awakening. She hit it big in 2009 as the perky perfectionist Rachel Berry on Fox's breakout high-school-musical comedy Glee, which has drawn a cult following of up to 8 million viewers a week and sent song after song rocketing to the top of the iTunes download chart. In May, Michele will lead the cast in a four-city concert tour.

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