Anna Leigh Ashford
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford is an American actor, singer, and dancer. Her initial performances on Broadway include the musicals Wicked Legally Blonde and Hair. In the musical, Hair. Tony Award was given to Ashford for her role as Essie Carmichael from You Can't Take It With You. Annaleigh Ashford is a Tony Award winner actor has worked alongside famous directors and actors in stage films and television. Ashford continues to build on her award-winning career through her forthcoming projects. Ashford can be seen next in the role of Kumail Nanjiani, in Robert Siegel's Hulu exclusive Welcome to Chippendales. It premieres on the 22nd of November. Ashford is currently working on Searchlight Pictures' horror thriller Dust which stars Sarah Paulson and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. The film will be aired on Disney DTC as a Hulu Original. It will be released in 2023, March. Ashford will make a return appearance on Broadway and play alongside 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 production. Ashford portrayed Paula Jones, the main actor in Ryan Murphy's upcoming FX series American Crime Story Impeachment. The show is based on the scandal that brought Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky Linda Tripp as well as other main actors into the very first impeachment proceeding in America in more than a century. Ashford starred for two seasons in the CBS popular comedy B Positive. The show was created by Chuck Lorre with Marco Pennette. The show featured Linda Lavin Sheryl Crow, Hector Elizondo as well as Ben Vereen. Ashford is no stranger to Broadway. The role she played as Essie on You Can't Take It with You was a winner of the Tony Drama Desk Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Her additional Broadway roles include Sunday in the Park with George Wicked Legally Blonde and the lead role in Lauren as Lauren in Kinky Boots a performance for which she received another Tony Award nomination. Ashford splits her life between Los Angeles & New York. Her birthplace was in Denver & raised there.






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