Kelli O’Hara has established herself as one of Broadway’s greatest leading ladies. The Tony Award winner, Emmy-, SAG-, and Grammy-nominated actress has appeared in 12 Broadway shows for which she has garnered eight Tony nominations.
She won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, along with Grammy Award, Drama League, and Outer Critics nominations for her portrayal of Anna Leonowens in The King and I. O’Hara’s other Broadway credits include Kiss Me, Kate, The Bridges of Madison County, Nice Work If You Can Get It, South Pacific, The Pajama Game, The Light in the Piazza, Sweet Smell of Success, Follies, Dracula, and Jekyll & Hyde.
O’Hara received an Emmy Award nomination for her portrayal of Katie Bonner in Topic’s hit web series The Accidental Wolf and can currently be seen on HBO’s The Gilded Age, which was nominated for a SAG award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for its second season. Additional film and television credits include Showtime’s Masters of Sex, 13 Reasons Why, Blue Bloods, All My Children, All the Bright Places, Peter Pan Live!, Sex and the City 2, Martin Scorsese’s The Key to Reserva, The Good Fight, N3mbers, and Car Talk.
In 2015, O’Hara made history as the first artist to cross over from Broadway to opera when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Lehar’s The Merry Widow opposite Renée Fleming; and in 2018, she returned as Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. She was last seen at the Metropolitan Opera as Laura Brown in the world premiere of Kevin Puts’s The Hours, which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Opera Recording.
O’Hara is a frequent performer on PBS’s live telecasts and the Kennedy Center Honors, and performs often alongside the New York Philharmonic and the New York Pops. Along with her two Grammy Award nominations, her solo albums, Always and Wonder in the World, are available on Ghostlight Records.
O’Hara recently completed a critically acclaimed limited Broadway engagement of the 2023 musical Days of Wine and Roses, which also garnered rave reviews during its off-Broadway run at the Atlantic Theater Company. She won the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical in addition to receiving Tony and Drama League nominations for her role.