Celia Keenan-Bolger

Actress

Birthday January 26, 1978

Birth Sign Aquarius

Birthplace Detroit, Michigan, U.S.

Age 46 years old

Nationality United States

#29633 Most Popular

1978

Celia Keenan-Bolger (born January 26, 1978) is an American actress and singer.

2002

Keenan-Bolger's regional credits include Johanna in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration in 2002, along with productions at the Goodman Theatre, TheatreWorks and Sundance Theatre Program.

2003

In 2003, she originated the role of Clara Johnson in the pre-Broadway world premiere of the Craig Lucas/Adam Guettel musical The Light in the Piazza at Seattle's Intiman Theatre and Chicago's Goodman Theatre.

Her Off-Broadway credits include Kindertransport, Little Fish and Summer of '42.

She appeared on the concept cast album of Bright Lights, Big City.

She has sung in concert at the Lincoln Center American Songbook Series and at the Michigan Theatre with Audra McDonald.

2004

She had appeared in the musical from its beginning at the Barrington Stage Company (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) in July 2004, to the Off-Broadway production at the Second Stage Theatre in January through March 2005.

2005

Keenan-Bolger performed as Martha in the 2005 The Secret Garden World AIDS Day benefit concert.

In 2005, Keenan-Bolger made her Broadway debut starring in William Finn's musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, where she originated the role of Olive Ostrovsky.

For this performance, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

2006

She appeared on Broadway in the revival of Les Misérables as street waif Éponine from October 2006 to April 2007, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination.

2007

With the original Broadway cast, she returned to The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for a four-week limited engagement run at the Wadsworth Theatre in Los Angeles from May through June 2007.

She also participated in a reading of Shrek The Musical as Princess Fiona in 2007.

2008

Keenan-Bolger appeared in the Playwrights Horizons production of the new musical Saved with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman and a book by John Dempsey and Rinne Groff in 2008.

She appeared in Bachelorette at the Second Stage Theatre and in Adam Bock's A Small Fire, opposite Michele Pawk and Reed Birney.

2010

Keenan-Bolger has been married to actor John Ellison Conlee since 2010.

2011

In 2011, she starred in the New York Theatre Workshop production of Peter and the Starcatcher, a stage adaptation of the 2004 best-selling children's novel of a similar name.

2012

Keenan-Bolger starred as Mary Flynn in the Encores! production of Merrily We Roll Along, which played at the New York City Center from February 8 through 19, 2012.

She reprised the role of Molly in the Broadway transfer production of Peter and the Starcatcher, which played at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre from March 28, 2012, through January 20, 2013.

Keenan-Bolger received Drama Desk Award and Tony Award nominations for her performance.

2013

Keenan-Bolger played Laura Wingfield in the American Repertory Theater production of The Glass Menagerie alongside Cherry Jones, Zachary Quinto and Brian J. Smith, from February 2, 2013, through March 17, 2013.

Keenan-Bolger reprised her role in the production's Broadway transfer, which ran from September 5, 2013, through February 23, 2014, at the Booth Theatre.

She received a third Tony Award nomination for her performance.

2014

Keenan-Bolger starred in the Lincoln Center production of Sarah Ruhl's The Oldest Boy, which began performances at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater on October 9, 2014.

She participated in a reading of The Brave Little Toaster: The Musical as the titular character.

Others involved included Carol Channing, reprising her role as the Ceiling Fan.

2015

In early 2015, she appeared in a live reading of Eric Carle's Animals, Animals for the Autistic Children's Trust in Bangor, Maine.

2016

In 2016, Keenan-Bolger played Varya in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of The Cherry Orchard.

2018

She is known for portraying Scout Finch in the play To Kill a Mockingbird (2018), which earned her a Tony Award.

She has also won three Drama Desk Awards and an Outer Critics Circle Award.

Keenan-Bolger was born in Detroit, Michigan, the eldest of three children.

She has a sister, Maggie, and a brother, Andrew.

She trained as a youth at the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit and the Detroit School of Arts High School.

She also attended Interlochen Center for the Arts.

She is a graduate of the University of Michigan's musical theatre performance program.

She starred on Broadway in To Kill a Mockingbird as Scout, which opened in December 2018 and closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

She received a Tony Award for Featured Actress in a Play, a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and a Drama League Award nomination for her performance.

Keenan-Bolger reprised her role when the Broadway production reopened in October 2021 and played her final performance on January 2, 2022.

2020

In November 2020, Keenan-Bolger was announced as part of the cast of HBO's new series The Gilded Age.

She played Mrs. Bruce in the first season of the show, and it was announced that she would return as a series regular for season 2, which was filmed in 2022.