Nathania Ong is the first Singaporean to play Eponine in Les Miserables on the West End

Singaporean Nathania Ong is playing the streetwise yet tragic Eponine in the famed musical Les Miserables. PHOTOS: NATTYONG/INSTAGRAM, DANNY KAAN
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SINGAPORE – It has been a long and winding road to the West End for Singaporean Nathania Ong, paved with stops and starts, rejection from drama schools and a pandemic which disrupted her education.

But the 24-year-old is now playing the streetwise yet tragic Eponine in the famed musical Les Miserables (1985 to present), the first Singaporean to do so in the West End stage production.

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