Anna Leigh Ashford
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford was born in the United States. The actress is an actress or singer, as well as dancer. She began her Broadway career performing in musicals like Wicked, Legally Blonde, and Hair. The role she played as Essie Carmahiel in You Can't Take It With You as Essie Carmahiel earned her an award for the Tony Award in Best Featured Female Actress in a Play. Annaleigh Ashford, Tony Award winner actor has worked with a variety of well-known directors and actors in stage films and television. Ashford continues to build on her award-winning career with her upcoming projects. Ashford in the near future will play opposite Kumail in Robert Siegel's exclusive Hulu show Welcome to Chippendales which premieres 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 available through Disney's DTC platforms and will be available as a Hulu Original. Ashford's Broadway return will take place on March 20, 2023. He plays alongside Josh Groban for the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre revival of Stephensondheim's Sweeney Todd. Thomas Kail, director and producer of Hamilton is the director of the show. Ashford was Paula Jones, the main actor in Ryan Murphy's upcoming FX series American Crime Story Impeachment. The series is based on the impeachment crisis that swept Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky Linda Tripp along with other key characters in the first impeachment proceeding in America in more than a century. She was also the lead in two seasons on CBS Comedy B Positive. The show was created by Chuck Lorre with Marco Pennette. It featured Linda Lavin Sheryl Crow, Hector Elizondo as well as Ben Vereen. Ashford is no stranger to Broadway. Her performance as Essie in You Can't Take It with You won her the Tony Drama Desk Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Her additional Broadway roles includes Sunday in the Park with George Wicked Legally Blonde and her first role as Lauren in Kinky Boots a performance for which she was awarded a second Tony Award nomination. Ashford has been brought up in Denver is now based in Los Angeles and New York.
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