Laura Benanti
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Laura Benanti

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Biography

Laura Benanti (born July 15, 1979) is an American actress and singer.

Over the course of her Broadway career, she has received five Tony Award nominations. She played Louise in the 2008 Broadway revival of Gypsy, winning the 2008 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. In 2016 she starred in She Loves Me as Amalia Balash, which was televised.

She played Elsa Schräder in the 2013 NBC television production of The Sound of Music Live!, appeared as Sadie Stone in Nashville in 2014 and 2015 and that same year began playing twin sisters Alura and Astra in the TV series Supergirl. Beginning in 2017, Benanti appeared as Edie Randall in the TBS comedy The Detour. Since 2016, she has had a recurring role as First Lady Melania Trump on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Films Featuring Laura Benanti

She Loves Me: Behind the Curtain

2017

Take the Lead

20066.9

tick, tick... BOOM!

20217.6

Meskada

20104.6

Reopening: The Broadway Revival

2022

Goodrich

20246.5

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert

20108.0

The Sound of Music Live!

20136.3

Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime

2022

No Hard Feelings

20236.7

The Shade

20244.9

Falling for Grace

20065.2

She Loves Me

20167.7

Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale

20165.2

Everything's Going to Be Great

20255.9

Tangled: Before Ever After

20176.8

Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards

20057.2

Worth

20216.7

Here Today

20217.0

Laura Benanti: Live From the West Side

2020

Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020

20206.0

Russian Broadway Shut Down

2014

Kinda Pregnant

20255.6

The Ditch

The Ditch

A Backstage Look at "The Wedding Singer" on Broadway

Untitled Dan Perlman Project

Untitled Dan Perlman Project