Anna Leigh Ashford
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford (born April 14th 1988) is an American performer, actor and dancer. The first Broadway roles include Wicked Legally Blonde & Hair. She received the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in the Play for playing Essie Carmichael from You Can't Take It With You. Annaleigh is a collaborator on projects with award-winning directors as well as actors and producers for most of her career. Ashford will be next seen alongside Kumail Nannjiani on Robert Siegel's Hulu Limited series Welcome to Chippendales premiering November 22. Ashford's upcoming project includes the Searchlight Pictures horror thriller Dust, starring alongside Sarah Paulson and Ebonmoss-Bachrach. It will also be available as an Hulu Original on Disney DTC. Ashford is scheduled to return to Broadway in the month of March 2023 in which he'll be starring alongside Josh Groban opposite Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. The production will be held in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. This show will be produced by Thomas Kail and produced by Jeffrey Seller, the team who produced Hamilton. Ashford was Paula Jones, the main actor in Ryan Murphy's upcoming FX series American Crime Story Impeachment. It is based upon the impeachment crisis that swept Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky Linda Tripp along with other key characters into the first ever impeachment proceeding in America in over a century. Ashford appeared for two seasons in the CBS popular comedy B Positive. She also appeared in the hit series created by Marco Pennette Chuck Lorre, which featured famous actors Linda Lavin Hector Elizondo Ben Vereen. A veteran of 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 starring George Wicked and Legally Blonde are amongst her additional Broadway credits. Ashford, who was born in Denver and now lives in Los Angeles and New York.
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