Anna Leigh Ashford
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford was born in the US. The actress is an actor or singer, as well as dancer. Early Broadway parts are Wicked Legally Blonde & Hair. In her performance as Essie in You Can't Take It With You she won the Tony Award. Annaleigh is a collaborator in projects with award-winning directors as well as actors and producers throughout the course of her professional career. Ashford can be seen next as a co-star with Kumail Nanjiani, in Robert Siegel's Hulu exclusive Welcome to Chippendales. It will premiere on 22nd November. Ashford has been involved in Searchlight Pictures' horror film Dust with Sarah Paulson alongside Ebon and Moss Bachrach. The film will be aired on Disney DTC as a Hulu Original. The film will premiere in March 2023. Ashford will return to Broadway and star opposite Josh Groban in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Thomas Kail as director and Jeffrey Seller as producer will form the team of creators for the show. Ashford was most recently seen as Paula Jones in the new Ryan Murphy FX series American Crime Story Impeachment that is based upon the national crisis that swept across the country. Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp as principal characters as the nation's first impeachment trial in more than a century. Ashford was a part of 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 was awarded the Tony Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Awards with her role as Essie. Additional Broadway credits for Ashford includes Sunday in the Park, as George Wicked legally Blonde, and the role of Lauren in Kinky Boots. For this performance she received the Tony Award nomination. Ashford divides her time between Los Angeles & New York. She was born in Denver and grew up there.






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