Anna Leigh Ashford
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford has been an American actress, dancer and vocalist since the mid 1990s. Her early Broadway roles are Wicked Legally Blonde & Hair. Her role as Essie Carmahiel in You Can't Take It With You as Essie Carmahiel won her an award for the Tony Award in Best Featured Female Actor in a Play. Annaleigh has been collaborating on projects with award-winning directors, actors and producers throughout the course of her professional career. Ashford is scheduled to be starring opposite Kumail Nanjiani on the Hulu limited series Welcome to Chippendales from creator Robert Siegel premiering on November 22. Ashford is currently working in Searchlight Pictures' horror thriller Dust with Sarah Paulson, Ebon Moss Bachrach and Ebon Mosch-Bachrach. The film is an Hulu Original and will be streamed via Disney DTC. In March of 2023 Ashford returns to Broadway and play alongside Josh Groban in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Thomas Kail as director and Jeffrey Seller as producer will be the creative team for the production. Ashford played Paula Jones most recently in Ryan Murphy FX's American Crime Story Impeachment, based off the scandal that was involving Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky Linda Tripp in the nation crisis. Ashford starred for two seasons on the CBS popular comedy B Positive. Created by Marco Pennette and Chuck Lorre the series also starred legendary performers Linda Lavin Hector Elizondo and Ben Vereen.No no stranger to Broadway Ashford won the Tony Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her portrayal of Essie in You Can't Take It with You. Sunday in the Park starring George Wicked and Legally Blonde are amongst her additional Broadway credits. Ashford was raised and born in Denver and currently splits the time in Los Angeles, and New York.






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