American - Actress | April 16, 1976 -
To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.
Kelli O'Hara
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Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.
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I was able to do concerts all the way up until two weeks before I had the baby; I thought I was stopping a month ahead, but he was three weeks early.
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Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.
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When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things.
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My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!
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There is such a cliche to certain roles that all I can do is to try to make them realistic and work for the times, and so the audience actually won't see me as a caricature of something, but rather as an actual person.
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I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that.
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My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America a generation before when times were very bad in Ireland. He worked in the Pennsylvania area and did well with horses and farming.
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Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.
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My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.
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I never really try to watch the movie of the things I've been in.
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