Anna Leigh Ashford

Annaleigh Amanda Ashford was born in the US. She is an actress or singer, as well as dancer. In her early Broadway roles, she played her role in Wicked Legally Blonde Hair. The actress was awarded the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play to play Essie Carmichael in You Can't Take It With You. Annaleigh Ashford Tony Award winner actor has worked with many acclaimed actors and directors for stage productions and on television. She continues this award-winning career with her upcoming projects. Ashford is scheduled to be in the role of Kumail Nanjiani on the Hulu limited series Welcome to Chippendales from creator Robert Siegel premiering on November 22. Ashford's current project is Searchlight Pictures horror thriller Dust and he will be starring with Sarah Paulson and Ebonmoss-Bachrach. It's also available on Hulu Original on Disney DTC. In March of 2023 Ashford returns to Broadway and star opposite Josh Groban in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Thomas Kail (director) and Jeffrey Seller (producer), the same team who created Hamilton, will direct the musical. Ashford was last seen in the role of Paula Jones in Ryan Murphy FX series American Crime Story Impeachment. The show centers around the National Crisis which put Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky Linda Tripp in the middle of the country's First Impeachment Proceedings in Over a Century. She starred in two seasons of cult CBS comedy B Positive. The show was created by Marco Pennette and Chuck Lorre the show also starred famous actor Linda Lavin Hector Elizondo and Ben Vereen.No stranger to Broadway Ashford won the Tony Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her role as Essie in You Can't Take It with You. Sunday in the Park with George Wicked legally blonde and the character that was originally played by Lauren of Kinky Boots were among her other Broadway credits. Ashford was raised and born in Denver and now divides her life between Los Angeles, and New York.