Celia Keenan-Bolger | |
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Born |
Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
January 26, 1978
Alma mater | University of Michigan |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 2001–present |
Spouse(s) | John Ellison Conlee (m. 2010) |
Children | 1 |
Relatives |
Maggie Keenan-Bolger Andrew Keenan-Bolger |
Celia Keenan-Bolger (born January 26, 1978) is an American actress and singer.
Keenan-Bolger was born in Detroit, Michigan. She is an alumna of the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit and the Detroit School of Arts High School (formerly the Detroit High School for the Fine and Performing Arts). She is a graduate of the University of Michigan's musical theatre performance program. She is one of three children, all of whom are involved in the performing arts. Her brother, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, also graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in musical theatre in 2007. Already a Broadway veteran, Andrew joined the national touring company of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in the fall of 2007. Her sister, Maggie Keenan-Bolger, who wrote the noted play From the Inside, Out, studied theatre and gender and women's studies at Oberlin College and graduated in 2006.
She married actor John Ellison Conlee in 2010 and announced that she is six months pregnant with the couple's first child in February, 2015. Their son, William Emmett Conlee, was born on April 29, 2015.
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. 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. She has performed Off-Broadway in Kindertransport, Little Fish and Summer of '42.