Anna Leigh Ashford

Annaleigh Amanda Ashford was born in America. The actress is an actor as well as a singer and dancer. As a young actress, she appeared in Broadway performances, she starred the role of Essie Carmichael in Wicked Legally Blonde Hair. The role she played on stage in You Can't Take It With You as Essie Carmahiel won her the Tony Award in Best Featured Female Actress in a Play. Annaleigh Ashley is a Tony Award winning actor and actress has collaborated with directors, actors, and other performers both on screen and stage for all of her career. Ashford will next be seen in the role of Kumail Nanjiani in the Hulu limited series Welcome to Chippendales from creator Robert Siegel premiering on November 22. Ashford has been working on Searchlight Pictures' horror film Dust that stars Sarah Paulson alongside Ebon and Moss Bachrach. The film is scheduled to air on Disney DTC as an Hulu Original. Ashford, who will appear alongside Josh Groban on Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in the March 2023 revival of Stephensondheim's Sweeney Todd. The team behind Hamilton director Jeffrey Seller and director Thomas Kail is at the leading the show. Ashford has most recently played Paula Jones in the new Ryan Murphy FX series American Crime Story Impeachment based on the crisis in America that picked across the country. Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp as principal characters as the nation's first impeachment proceedings in over one century. In two seasons, Ashford was a star of CBS's hit series B Positive. Also, she was a part of the hit series created by Marco Pennette Chuck Lorre, that starred legendary actors Linda Lavin Hector Elizondo Ben Vereen. No stranger to Broadway Ashford has been awarded both the Tony Drama Desk Award and the Outer Critics Circle Awards with her performance as Essie. She has also appeared in Broadway on Sunday in the Park With George Wicked, Legally Blonde as well as the original character of Lauren in Kinky Boots for which she was nominated for an Tony Award. Ashford lives in Los Angeles & New York. She was born in Denver and was raised in Denver.