Isabel Keating

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Isabel Keating

Born Savannah, Georgia
United States
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Isabel Keating is an American actress and singer.

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[edit] Acting career

Keating is widely acclaimed for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the 2003 Broadway theatre production of The Boy From Oz, starring opposite Hugh Jackman, for which she received a Tony Award nomination[1] (Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical) and for which she won the Drama Desk Award[2] and the Theatre World Award. On Broadway, she also starred in Enchanted April, replacing Molly Ringwald in the role of Rose Arnott[3] after having created the leading role of Lotty Wilton in Matthew Barber's play in its world premiere production at Hartford Stage Company in Hartford, CT.[4] Keating played the Duchess of Berwick, in the Oscar Wilde comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan in 2005 at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Williamstown, MA.[5] She joined the cast of Hairspray in the role of Velma Von Tussle in June 2006.[6] Keating starred in Gore Vidal's On the March to the Sea opposite Chris Noth, Charles Durning, Richard Easton, Michael Learned and Harris Yulin at Theatre Previews at Duke[7] as well as at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT, in Tom Stoppard's Travesties opposite Sam Waterston,[8] and at the Paper Mill Playhouse, in Millburn, NJ, in Wendy Kesselman's stage version of The Diary of Anne Frank. She won the 2000 Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress for her work in Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink at The Studio Theatre in Washington, DC.[9] Notably, she appeared as Vi in Lucinda Coxon's Waiting at the Water's Edge in its American premiere, directed by Nela Wagman for the Watermark Theatre Company.[10] On television, she guest starred opposite Stanley Tucci in the highly acclaimed but short-lived CBS network series 3 lbs.[11] Keating also appears in the films The Nanny Diaries[12] and The Life Before Her Eyes.[13]

[edit] Theatre roles

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Awards and nominations

[edit] Tony Award

  • Nominated: Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, The Boy from Oz (2004)

[edit] Drama Desk Award

[edit] Drama League Award

[edit] Theatre World Award

  • Won: Outstanding Debut Performance in a Broadway Production, The Boy from Oz (2004)

[edit] Outer Critics Circle Award

  • Nominated: Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, The Boy from Oz (2004)

[edit] Helen Hayes Award

  • Won: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Resident Play, Indian Ink (2000)

[edit] Audie Awards

  • Finalist: Outstanding Achievement in Fiction Narration, Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews (2004)
Awards
Preceded by
Jane Krakowski
for Nine		 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
2003-2004
for The Boy from Oz		 Succeeded by
Jan Maxwell
for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ The Amercian Theatre Wing's Tony Awards -- Official website. Retrieved on 12 June, 2004.
  2. ^ Drama Desk Awards -- Official website. Retrieved on 12 June, 2004.
  3. ^ Oz's Judy Garland Fills in at Broadway's Enchanted April, Playbill.com, June 16, 2003. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  4. ^ Star File, Broadway.com, March 9, 2004. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  5. ^ High-Flying Epigrams Whiz By Like Arrows. Retrieved on 11 July, 2005.
  6. ^ New cast members for Hairspray, Broadway.com, June 12, 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-24.
  7. ^ Gore Vidal's On the March to the Sea Is an Invigorating Civil War Drama. Retrieved on 1 March, 2005.
  8. ^ Hewitt, Stephenson, Keating, More Join Sam Waterston for Long Wharf's Travesties, Playbill.com, April 14, 2005. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  9. ^ Nominees and Recipients, HelenHayes.org, Retrieved 2008-01-23.
  10. ^ In Performance; Theater. The New York Times (1994-06-08). Retrieved on 2008-05-08.
  11. ^ 3 lbs. Bad Boys (2006). Retrieved on 19 December, 2006.
  12. ^ The Nanny Diaries Acting Credits at The New York Times, nytimes.com, January 4, 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
  13. ^ Life Before Her Eyes (2007), imdb.com, Retrieved 2008-01-23.

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