Anna Leigh Ashford
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford was born in the United States. Ashford is an actress or singer, as well as dancer. As a young actress, she appeared in Broadway performances, she starred the role of Essie Carmichael in Wicked Legally Blonde Hair. In You Can't Take It With You She was the recipient of the Tony Award as Best Featured actress in a Play. Annaleigh Ashford Tony Award winner actor has worked with many well-known directors and actors on stage and screen. She continues this award-winning career by working on new projects. Ashford will next be seen with Kumail Nannjiani on Robert Siegel's Hulu Limited Series Welcome to Chippendales premiering November 22. Ashford is currently working on Searchlight Pictures' horror thriller Dust alongside Sarah Paulson, Ebon Moss Bachrach and Ebon Mosch Bachrach. It's also available as an Hulu Original on Disney DTC. Ashford's Broadway comeback will be in March 2023 when he is paired with Josh Groban for the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Thomas Kail (director) and Jeffrey Seller (producer), exactly the same group that produced Hamilton directed the production. Ashford was most recently seen as Paula Jones in the new Ryan Murphy FX series American Crime Story Impeachment that is based upon the nation's crisis, which swept up Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp as principal characters for the first impeachment proceedings in over one century. In two seasons, Ashford was a star of the hit show on CBS called B Positive. Created by Marco Pennette and Chuck Lorre the series also starred legendary actors Linda Lavin Hector Elizondo and Ben Vereen.No stranger to Broadway Ashford won the Tony Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance as Essie In You Can't Take It with You. Other Broadway roles for Ashford includes Sunday in the Park, in which she starred 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. Ashford divides her time between Los Angeles & New York. Her birthplace was in Denver & raised there.






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