Kelly Garrett

Education

The family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where Garrett attended Catholic schools and began singing. She attended Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, later moving Los Angeles and then Las Vegas doing singing gigs at supper clubs.

Career

Born Ellen Boulton to Sabina (née Griego, a nurse, and Jack Boulton (1916–1987), a marine. She then started performing on television series such as Shindig! and The Johnny Carson Show. Around this time in the 60s, Garrett also began a short-lived recording career.

In the 1970s, she moved to New York City.

Her stage name is often confused with the popular character also named "Kelly Garrett" on Charlie"s Angels. In 1976 she performed at the Academy Awards singing "Richard"s Window" from The Other Side of the Mountain which was nominated for Best Song.

In 1974 she performed in the musical revue Words & Music. She was considered for the lead role of Mabel in Mack & Mabel, losing the role to Bernadette Peters.

Garrett died on August 7, 2013 in a Albuquerque, New Mexico hospice at the age of 69 from complications of throat and tongue cancer.

She had been living in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, retired from performing, and was working as an arts educator and coach. Garrett did not have children and was once divorced.

Achievements

• She was nominated for a Tony Award in 1976 for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Garrett made her debut in the 1972 musical Mother Earth, for which she received a Theatre World award. In 1975 she performed in the musical revue The Night That Made America Famous, for which she was nominated for the first Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical and she was also nominated for the Tony Award.