Anna Leigh Ashford
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford was born in America. Ashford is an actor as well as a singer and dancer. One of her first Broadway performances included Wicked Legally Blonde Hair. In You Can't Take It With You She was the recipient of the Tony Award as Best Featured actor in an Play. Annaleigh, Tony Award-winning actress and director, has spent the majority of her career working alongside well-known directors and actors on screen and in television. Ashford's next project will be a limited edition Hulu series titled Welcome to Chippendales, created by Robert Siegel. The show will premiere on the 22nd of November and Ashford is starring alongside Kumail Najiani. Ashford is currently in the making of Searchlight Pictures' terror thriller Dust with Sarah Paulson. The film is part of a Hulu Original and will be streamed via Disney DTC. Ashford's Broadway return will take place in the month of March 2023, when he plays alongside Josh Groban for the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. Thomas Kail as director and Jeffrey Seller as producer will be the creative team for the show. Ashford's latest role was as Paula Jones on Ryan Murphy FX's American Crime Story Impeachment. It is based upon the National scandal that featured Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky, as well as Linda Tripp. Her two-season stint on the CBS comedy B Positive was her first big part. The series was created by Marco Pennette, Chuck Lorre and Linda Lavin. It also featured Ben Vereen and Hector Elizondo. Additional Broadway performances include Sunday in the Park with George Wicked Legally Blonde and her first role as Lauren In Kinky Boots a performance for which she also received a Tony Award nomination. Born and raised in Denver Ashford currently splits the time in Los Angeles and New York.
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