Anna Leigh Ashford
Annaleigh Amanda Ashford has been an American actress, dancer and singer since the early 1990s. In her early Broadway performances, she starred her role in Wicked Legally Blonde Hair. In You Can't Take It With You in which she was awarded the Tony Award as Best Featured actress in a Play. Annaleigh has been collaborating in projects with award-winning directors, actors and producers throughout her professional career. Ashford will next be seen with Kumail Nannjiani in Robert Siegel's Hulu Limited series Welcome to Chippendales premiering November 22. Ashford is currently working on Searchlight Pictures' horror thriller Dust which stars Sarah Paulson and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. The movie will air on Disney DTC in the form of it becomes a Hulu Original. Ashford will return to Broadway in March 2023, with the role of Josh Groban opposite Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. The production is in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. Thomas Kail (director) and Jeffrey Seller (producer), exactly the same group that created Hamilton directed the production. Ashford played Paula Jones most recently in Ryan Murphy's American Crime Story Impeachment, inspired by the scandal that was involving Paula Jones Monica Lewinsky Linda Tripp during the national crisis. In two seasons, Ashford was a star of the hit show on CBS called B Positive. Created by Marco Pennette and Chuck Lorre it also featured legendary actor Linda Lavin Hector Elizondo and Ben Vereen.No new to Broadway Ashford was awarded the Tony Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her role as Essie In You Can't Take It with You. Sunday in the Park starring George Wicked and Legally Blonde is among her other Broadway performances. Ashford is an Denver native who now divides his time in Los Angeles.






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