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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Sanya Mansoor](https://time.com/author/sanya-mansoor/) ## Sanya Mansoor  Lea Salonga remembers hearing the iconic Cinderella song, _A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes_, for the first time at five years old. “It etched itself in my mind,” she says. Two decades later, Salonga became the singing voice for two iconic Disney princesses: Jasmine and Mulan. “Now I get to be that for someone else,” she remembers thinking. Her Filipina heritage made playing Mulan especially meaningful. “All of a sudden, the people that look like me had a princess,” Salonga says. “She brings honor to herself and to her family…and she does it with grace.” What’s more, she’s one of the only princesses that doesn’t end the movie with a grand wedding. In her four-decade award-winning career as an actress and singer, Salonga has emerged as not only a Disney and Broadway icon, but a role model for children of color. Salonga prides herself on promoting representation in Hollywood and on Broadway, and showing underrepresented groups that their stories matter. Salonga’s first professional theatrical performance was at the age of seven, when she starred in a Filipino production of _The King and I_. She made her mark on the international stage in 1989 for her [Tony Award winning performance in Miss Saigon](https://playbill.com/article/from-the-archives-how-miss-saigons-lea-salonga-achieved-overnight-stardom-at-20). Salonga played Kim, a Vietnamese prostitute who fell in love with an American soldier. The recognition from that role showed her “it is possible for a kid from a small country in South East Asia to get to do this and to be awarded,” she says. In 1992, she became the first Asian woman to play Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway. In 2017, Salonga released “Bahaghari,” an album of traditional Filipino songs in many of the country’s different languages. And in 2019, she played the protagonist’s aunt in _Yellow Rose_, which follows a teenage Filipina-American girl in a small Texas town who dreams of becoming a country singer, but puts those dreams on hold after ICE detains her mother. Her latest role is as queer mom Elodie Honrada on the HBO MAX show _Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin,_ which was just renewed for a second season. It’s not easy breaking down racial barriers in historically white spaces and roles, and Salonga says she relies on her sense of humor, which she describes as “sometimes inappropriate and sometimes irreverent” to stay sane. “Back home, we call it cariño brutal,” she says. In one of her favorite roles, as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Salonga felt she was able to incorporate that darker side of herself, and leave behind expectations of sounding classically beautiful. “I just went for her baser instincts, her venal nature,” she says. Still, Salonga is holding out hope for a Filipina Disney princess—perhaps centered around the warrior Urduja, she[ told Teen Vogue in 2019](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lea-salonga-yellow-rose-disney-interview). 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