Anna Leigh Ashford
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford, an American actor and singer. Early Broadway roles are Wicked Legally Blonde & Hair. In You Can't Take It With You, she won the Tony Award as Best Featured actor in the Play. Annaleigh is a Tony Award winning actress and director, has spent the majority of her career working alongside well-known directors and actors in film and on television. Ashford is set to next appear alongside Kumail Robert Siegel's Hulu exclusive series Welcome to Chippendales which premieres on November 22nd. Ashford is currently filming on Searchlight Pictures' horror thriller Dust which stars Sarah Paulson and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. This film is a Hulu Original and will be streaming on Disney DTC. Ashford will return in 2023, and will be starring opposite Josh Groban at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre to perform the return of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Thomas Kail (director) and Jeffrey Seller (producer), the same team who produced Hamilton directed the musical. Ashford's most recent part was that of Paula Jones on Ryan Murphy FX's American Crime Story Impeachment. The show is based on the national scandal which involved Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky, as well as Linda Tripp. She was in two seasons of the hit CBS comedy B Positive. Also, she was a part of the hit series created by Marco Pennette Chuck Lorre, that starred legendary actors Linda Lavin Hector Elizondo Ben Vereen. Not a stranger to Broadway Ashford has been awarded both the Tony Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Awards with her role as Essie. Sunday in the Park with George Wicked legally blonde and the character that was originally played by Lauren in Kinky Boots were among her other Broadway roles. Ashford splits her life between Los Angeles & New York. She was born in Denver and was raised in Denver.






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