Anna Leigh Ashford
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford was born in the United States. She is an actress or singer, as well as dancer. The first Broadway roles are Wicked Legally Blonde & Hair. Her performance in You Can't Take It With You as Essie Carmahiel was rewarded with an award for the Tony Award in Best Featured Female Actor in a Play. Annaleigh Ashford, a Tony Award-winning actor as well as director, has spent the bulk of her professional career working alongside well-known directors and actors on screen and in television. Ashford's next project will be an exclusive Hulu show called Welcome to Chippendales, created by Robert Siegel. The show premieres on November 22, and Ashford plays opposite Kumail Najiani. Ashford is currently in production on Searchlight Pictures' horror thriller Dust which stars Sarah Paulson and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. In the form of it is a Hulu Original, the film is available on Disney DTC's platform. Ashford returns to Broadway in the month of March 2023 in which he'll be starring alongside Josh Groban opposite Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. The production will be held at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. This production will be directed by Thomas Kail and produced by Jeffrey Seller, the team who created Hamilton. Ashford played Paula Jones, the main role in Ryan Murphy's latest FX show American Crime Story Impeachment. The series is based on the scandal that brought Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky Linda Tripp as well as other main actors into the very first impeachment trial in the United States in more than a century. Ashford starred for two seasons on the CBS hit comedy B Positive. In addition, she appeared on the popular series developed by Marco Pennette Chuck Lorre, with legendary actors Linda Lavin Hector Elizondo Ben Vereen. A veteran of Broadway Ashford has won both the Tony Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Awards with her role as Essie. Additional Broadway roles include Sunday in the Park with George Wicked Legally Blonde and the originating role of Lauren In Kinky Boots a performance for which she also received a Tony Award nomination. Ashford is from the city of Denver native who now divides her time between Los Angeles.






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