Laura Benanti

Known for ActingBorn 1979-07-15 (age 46)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. 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Mayor of Kingstown

Sondheim! The Birthday Concert

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

The Gilded Age

She Loves Me

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Elementary

The Good Wife

Gossip Girl

Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure

Supergirl

The Detour

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

Nurse Jackie

Here Today

The $100,000 Pyramid

Younger

Tangled: Before Ever After

Elsbeth

Worth

Take the Lead

No Hard Feelings

Eli Stone

Royal Pains

Goodrich

Slugfest

Go On

Match Game

Life on Mars

Ziwe

The Sound of Music Live!

Beat Bobby Flay

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020

Everything's Going to Be Great

Kinda Pregnant

The Playboy Club

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

Falling for Grace

The Shade

Tamron Hall

Starved

Meskada

Would I Lie to You?

Reopening: The Broadway Revival

Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime

Laura Benanti: Live From the West Side

Stars in the House