Anna Leigh Ashford
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford, an American actress and a singer. Early Broadway parts included Wicked Legally Blonde & Hair. She won an award from the Tony Award for Best Featured actress in a Play to play Essie Carmichael from You Can't Take It With You. Annaleigh Ashford Tony Award winner actor has worked with a variety of acclaimed directors and actors on the stage and on television. She continues this award-winning career by working on new projects. Ashford will next be seen with Kumail Nannjiani in Robert Siegel's Hulu Limited Series Welcome to Chippendales premiering November 22. Ashford's most recent film involves Searchlight Pictures horror thriller Dust that he will be starring with Sarah Paulson and Ebonmoss-Bachrach. This film is an Hulu Original and will be streamed via Disney DTC. In the month of March, 2023 Ashford returns to Broadway and play alongside Josh Groban in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. This production will be led by Thomas Kail and produced by Jeffrey Seller, the team that created Hamilton. Ashford was Paula Jones most recently in Ryan Murphy's FX's American Crime Story Impeachment, inspired by the incident where Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky Linda Tripp were the principal characters of the first ever impeachment hearing in America. Ashford was a part of two seasons in the CBS popular comedy B Positive. Also, she was a part of the cult series, created by Marco Pennette Chuck Lorre, with famous actors Linda Lavin Hector Elizondo Ben Vereen. No stranger to Broadway Ashford has won both the Tony Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Awards with her portrayal of Essie. Other Broadway roles for Ashford include Sunday in the Park, with George Wicked legally Blonde, as well as the role of Lauren as Lauren in Kinky Boots. For this role, she earned a Tony Award nomination. Born and raised in Denver Ashford currently splits her days between Los Angeles and New York.
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