Anna Leigh Ashford

Annaleigh Amanda Ashford was born in the US. Ashford is an actor, singer and dancer. The first Broadway roles include Wicked Legally Blonde & Hair. Her first Tony Award was given to her for the role of 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 starring alongside Kumail Nanjiani in Robert Siegel's Hulu exclusive Welcome to Chippendales. It premieres on the 22nd of November. Ashford's current project is Searchlight Pictures horror thriller Dust and he will be starring with Sarah Paulson and Ebonmoss-Bachrach. The film will be released in the form of an Hulu Original on Disney DTC. Ashford will be seen alongside Josh Groban on Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in the March 2023 production of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. The team behind Hamilton director Jeffrey Seller and director Thomas Kail will be at leading the show. Ashford was Paula Jones, the main character in Ryan Murphy's new FX program American Crime Story Impeachment. It is based upon the impeachment crisis that swept Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky Linda Tripp along with other key actors into the very first impeachment proceedings in America for more than 100 years. She starred in two seasons of the popular CBS comedy B Positive. Created by Marco Pennette and Chuck Lorre the series also starred legendary performers Linda Lavin Hector Elizondo and Ben Vereen.No new to Broadway Ashford has won Tony Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her role as Essie In You Can't Take It with You. Additional Broadway performances are Sunday in the Park with George Wicked Legally Blonde and the originating role of Lauren as Lauren in Kinky Boots a performance for which she also received a Tony Award nomination. Ashford splits her life between Los Angeles & New York. She was born in Denver and grew up there.