Lisa O’Hare

Lisa O’Hare is an English actress who has played Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and the title character of Mary Poppins in the West End and UK stage. She more recently has appeared in several prime-time American television shows on TNT, ABC and NBC. She most recently starred on Broadway in the musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.

O’Hare was trained as a ballet dancer, and performed in dance-oriented shows such as Alice and the Others at Sadler’s Wells and Defile at the Royal Opera House. Moving to musical theatre, O’Hare joined the original London production of Mary Poppins as the understudy for the original Laura Michelle Kelly as well as a member of the original ensemble in December 2004. She left the production in July 2005.

From 28 September 2005 at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, O’Hare joined the National UK Tour of Cameron Mackintosh’s production of My Fair Lady as the alternate Eliza Doolittle, sharing the role with Amy Nuttall until the UK tour ended on 12 August 2006 at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff.