Anna Leigh Ashford

Annaleigh Amanda Ashford was born in America. Ashford is an actor, singer and dancer. Her early Broadway performances include Wicked Legally Blonde & Hair. As the character Essie In You Can't Take It With You she received the Tony Award. Annaleigh is a Tony Award winning actress and director, has spent the majority of her career working alongside famous directors and actors both on stage and screen. Ashford's next project will be a limited edition Hulu series called Welcome to Chippendales, created by Robert Siegel. The show premieres on November 22, and Ashford plays opposite Kumail Najiani. Ashford's current project will be Searchlight Pictures horror thriller Dust and he will be starring with Sarah Paulson and Ebonmoss-Bachrach. The film is an Hulu Original, the film will be a part of Disney Digital Television's channels. Ashford, who will appear alongside Josh Groban on Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre during the march 2023 revival of Stephensondheim's Sweeney Todd. The team behind Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller and director Thomas Kail will be at the helm of the production. Ashford most recently starred Paula Jones in the new Ryan Murphy FX series American Crime Story Impeachment that is based upon the crisis in America that picked up Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp as principal characters in the country's first impeachment proceedings in over a century. The two-season run she had on the CBS show B Positive was her first significant part. The show was written by Marco Pennette, Chuck Lorre and Linda Lavin. The show also included Ben Vereen as well as Hector Elizondo. Also, she has been on Broadway as a character in Sunday in the Park With George Wicked, Legally Blonde and the first role in the role of Lauren in Kinky Boots for which she received a nomination for a Tony Award. Her birthplace and childhood was in Denver Ashford now splits the time in Los Angeles and New York.