Biography
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 (Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical) and for which she won the Drama Desk Award and the Theatre World Award. On Broadway, she also starred in Enchanted April, replacing Molly Ringwald in the role of Rose Arnott 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. 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. She joined the cast of Hairspray in the role of Velma Von Tussle in June 2006. 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 as well as at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT, in Tom Stoppard's Travesties opposite Sam Waterston, 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. 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. On television, she guest starred opposite Stanley Tucci in the highly acclaimed but short-lived CBS network series 3 lbs and opposite Vincent d'Onofrio in Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Keating also appears in the films The Nanny Diaries and The Life Before Her Eyes. Keating appears in the new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, in many roles, including Aunt May.
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