Kelli Christine O’Hara won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of The King and I. She also received Tony nominations for her performances in The Light in the Piazza, The Pajama Game, South Pacific, Nice Work If You Can Get It, The Bridges of Madison County, and Kiss Me, Kate. She has also played roles in television series, such as Masters of Sex and 13 Reasons Why.
About Kelli O’Hara in brief
Kelli Christine O’Hara won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the Lincoln Center Theater revival of The King and I. She also received Tony nominations for her performances in The Light in the Piazza, The Pajama Game, South Pacific, Nice Work If You Can Get It, The Bridges of Madison County, and Kiss Me, Kate. She has also played roles in television series, such as Masters of Sex and 13 Reasons Why, receiving a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her starring role in the 2017 web drama series The Accidental Wolf. She made her debut at The Metropolitan Opera in a 2014 production of Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow. In 2018, she played the role of Despina in the Met Opera’s production of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte.
She is the voice of producer Beth Totenbag on PBS’s 2008 animated series Click and Clack’s As the Wrench Turns. She played Ellen in the film Sex and the City 2, and in 2011 she appeared in the first episode of the second season of the CBS series Blue Bloods. She received her fourth Tony Award nomination in 2012, at the New York City Center Encores! concert presentation of Bells Are Ringing. She sang one of the best known songs from the show, “Will He Like Me?”, along with A Chorus Line’s Marvin Hamlisch and Paul Gemignani. She appeared in a benefit concert, presented by the Roundabout Theater Company, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the company’s musical Blue Loves Me.
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