Anna Leigh Ashford
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford, an American actor and singer. She started her Broadway career 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 won the Tony Award. Annaleigh has been collaborating on projects with award-winning director as well as actors and producers throughout the course of her professional career. Ashford is set to next appear alongside Kumail in Robert Siegel's exclusive Hulu show Welcome to Chippendales which premieres November 22. Ashford currently works in Searchlight Pictures' horror thriller Dust with Sarah Paulson, Ebon Moss Bachrach and Ebon Mosch-Bachrach. The film is scheduled to stream through Disney's DTC platforms and will be available as a Hulu Original. It will be released in 2023, March. Ashford will return to Broadway and play alongside Josh Groban in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. This show will be produced by Thomas Kail and produced by Jeffrey Seller, the team which produced Hamilton. Ashford was Paula Jones, the main character in Ryan Murphy's new FX program American Crime Story Impeachment. The show is based on the impeachment crisis that swept Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky Linda Tripp along with other key characters into the first ever impeachment proceedings in America for more than 100 years. Ashford was a part of two seasons of popular CBS comedy B Positive. The show was developed by Marco Pennette Chuck Lorre with the legendary Linda Lavin Hector Elizondo Ben Vereen. Ashford, who is not new to Broadway won both Tony Drama Desk Awards as well as Outer Critics Circle Awards in her character in the role of Essie. She has also performed on Broadway on Sunday in the Park With George Wicked, Legally Blonde in addition to the original role as Lauren as Lauren in Kinky Boots for which she received a nomination for a Tony Award. Ashford was born and raised in Denver and now divides her life between Los Angeles, and New York.
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