Anna Leigh Ashford

Annaleigh Amanda Ashford has been an American dancer, actress and performer since the beginning of the 1990s. Some of her early Broadway productions included Wicked Legally Blonde Hair. The actress was awarded her Tony Award for Best Featured actor in the Play in the role of Essie Carmichael in You Can't Take It With You. Annaleigh is a collaborator on projects with award-winning directors, actors, and producers for most of her career. Ashford's next project will be an exclusive Hulu series called Welcome to Chippendales, created by Robert Siegel. The show debuts on November 22 and Ashford stars opposite Kumail Najiani. Ashford's upcoming project includes the Searchlight Pictures horror thriller Dust which he is starring in with Sarah Paulson and Ebonmoss-Bachrach. In the form of it is a Hulu Original, the film will be a part of Disney DTC's platform. In March of 2023 Ashford returns to Broadway and will be starring alongside Josh Groban in the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Thomas Kail (director) and Jeffrey Seller (producer), exactly the same group that created Hamilton, will direct the musical. Ashford most recently starred Paula Jones in the new Ryan Murphy FX series American Crime Story Impeachment which is based on the national crisis that swept up Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp as principal characters for the first impeachment hearings in over 100 years. She was also the lead in two seasons on CBS Comedy B Positive. It was co-produced by Chuck Lorre with Marco Pennette. The show featured Linda Lavin Sheryl Crow, Hector Elizondo and Ben Vereen. Ashford is no stranger to Broadway. The role she played as Essie in You Can't Take It with You earned her Tony Drama Desk Awards and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Sunday in the Park starring George Wicked and Legally Blonde are amongst her additional Broadway performances. She was born and grew up in Denver Ashford is now dividing her time between Los Angeles and New York.