27 Facts About Celia Keenan-Bolger

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

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Celia Keenan-Bolger is known for portraying Scout Finch in the play To Kill a Mockingbird, which earned her a Tony Award.

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Celia Keenan-Bolger has won three Drama Desk Awards and an Outer Critics Circle Award.

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Celia Keenan-Bolger has a sister, Maggie, and a brother, Andrew.

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Celia Keenan-Bolger trained as a youth at the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit and the Detroit School of Arts High School.

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Celia Keenan-Bolger is a graduate of the University of Michigan's musical theatre performance program.

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Celia Keenan-Bolger appeared on the concept cast album of Bright Lights, Big City.

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Celia Keenan-Bolger has sung in concert at the Lincoln Center American Songbook Series and at the Michigan Theatre with Audra McDonald.

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

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In 2005, Celia 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.

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Celia Keenan-Bolger had appeared in the musical from its beginning at the Barrington Stage Company in July 2004, to the Off-Broadway production at the Second Stage Theatre in January through March 2005.

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Celia Keenan-Bolger appeared on Broadway in the revival of Les Miserables as street waif Eponine from October 2006 to April 2007, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination.

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Celia Keenan-Bolger participated in a reading of Shrek The Musical as Princess Fiona in 2007.

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Celia 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.

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

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Celia Keenan-Bolger 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.

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

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Celia 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.

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Celia Keenan-Bolger received a third Tony Award nomination for her performance.

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Celia Keenan-Bolger participated in a reading of The Brave Little Toaster: The Musical as the titular character.

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

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Celia Keenan-Bolger 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.

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Celia Keenan-Bolger 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.

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

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

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Celia Keenan-Bolger played Mrs Bruce in the first season of the show, and it has been announced that she will be returning as a series regular for season 2, being filmed in 2022.

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