Laura Benanti
Actor
- Born
- July 15, 1979 (age 47) · New York City, New York, USA
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.
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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.
Known for
No Hard Feelings
June 15, 2023
tick, tick... BOOM!
November 11, 2021
Take the Lead
March 17, 2006
Tangled: Before Ever After
March 10, 2017
Worth
July 21, 2021
Kinda Pregnant
February 4, 2025
Here Today
May 7, 2021
Goodrich
October 17, 2024
The Sound of Music Live!
December 5, 2013
Everything's Going to Be Great
June 20, 2025
Meskada
October 3, 2010
Falling for Grace
March 31, 2006
Acting26
- 2025Everything's Going to Be Great as Tallulah Bankhead
- 2025Kinda Pregnant as Daisy's Mom
- 2024Goodrich as Naomi
- 2024The Shade as Renee Beckman
- 2023No Hard Feelings as Allison Becker
- 2022Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime as Self (pre-recorded video)
- 2022Reopening: The Broadway Revival as Self
- 2021tick, tick... BOOM! as Judy
- 2021Worth as Karen Donato
- 2021Here Today