Anna Leigh Ashford
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford was born in the US. Ashford is an actor as well as a singer and dancer. In her early Broadway role, she was in Wicked Legally Blonde Hair. In the musical, Hair. Tony Award was given to Ashford for her role as Essie Carmichael from You Can't Take It With You. Annaleigh Ashford is a Tony Award winner actor has worked with many acclaimed actors and directors for stage productions and on television. The award-winning actress continues her career through her forthcoming projects. Ashford in the near future will play opposite Kumail in Robert Siegel's Hulu-exclusive program Welcome to Chippendales which premieres the 22nd of November. Ashford has been working on Searchlight Pictures' horror film Dust which stars Sarah Paulson alongside Ebon and Moss Bachrach. The film is a Hulu Original, the film will be available on Disney Digital Television's channels. Ashford will be seen alongside Josh Groban on Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre for the upcoming March 2023 revival of Stephensondheim's Sweeney Todd. Thomas Kail (director) and Jeffrey Seller (producer), exactly the same group that brought us Hamilton is directing the production. Ashford has most recently played Paula Jones in the new Ryan Murphy FX series American Crime Story Impeachment based on the nation's crisis, which swept up Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp as principal characters as the nation's first impeachment trial in more than a century. In two seasons, Ashford was the main character of the hit show on CBS called B Positive. In addition, she appeared on the popular series developed by Marco Pennette Chuck Lorre, with famous actors Linda Lavin Hector Elizondo Ben Vereen. No stranger to Broadway Ashford was awarded the Tony Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Awards with her character Essie. Some other Broadway performances for Ashford include Sunday in the Park, in which she starred with George Wicked legally Blonde, as well as the role of Lauren as Lauren in Kinky Boots. For this performance she received a Tony Award nomination. Ashford splits her life between Los Angeles & New York. She was born in Denver & raised there.






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