Anna Leigh Ashford
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford is an American actress singer and dancer. She began her Broadway career performing in musicals such as Wicked, Legally Blonde, as well as Hair. In her performance as Essie In You Can't Take It With You she received the Tony Award. Tony Award-winning actress Annaleigh Ashford is a veteran of the majority of her career working alongside renowned directors and actors across theatre and on television. she continues that award-winning work with several upcoming projects. Ashford is next seen opposite Kumail Nannjiani in Robert Siegel's Hulu Limited series Welcome to Chippendales premiering November 22. Ashford's current film will be Searchlight Pictures horror thriller Dust which he is starring in with Sarah Paulson and Ebonmoss-Bachrach. As an Hulu Original, the film will be a part of Disney DTC's platforms. Ashford is set to return in 2023, and will star alongside Josh Groban at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre to perform the return of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. The production is led by Thomas Kail and produced by Jeffrey Seller, the team which produced Hamilton. Ashford has most recently played Paula Jones in the new Ryan Murphy FX series American Crime Story Impeachment that is based upon the crisis in America that picked up Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp as principal characters as the nation's first impeachment proceedings in over a century. Her two seasons on CBS comedy B Positive was her first significant character. It was developed by Marco Pennette, Chuck Lorre and Linda Lavin. It also had Ben Vereen and Elizondo. Other Broadway credits includes Sunday in the Park with George Wicked Legally Blonde and the lead role in Lauren In Kinky Boots a performance for which she received another Tony Award nomination. Ashford, who was raised in Denver and now lives in Los Angeles and New York.






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