Kelli O'Hara

Kelli O'Hara is an American actress and singer whose career has centered on Broadway and opera. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and raised in Elk City, she studied vocal performance at Oklahoma City University. One of her first professional roles was in a national tour of Jekyll & Hyde, and she later appeared on Broadway in the 2001 revival of Follies. She earned a Tony nomination for The Light in the Piazza and another for South Pacific. In 2015 she won the Tony for her portrayal of Anna Leonowens in The King and I, a role she reprised in the West End. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in The Merry Widow in 2014 and later sang there in Così fan tutte and The Hours. On screen, she was seen in Peter Pan Live! and The Gilded Age, and her work in The Accidental Wolf brought a Primetime Emmy nomination.