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.
Filmography
all 50
Movies 25
TV Shows 25
self 13
Voice 1
Kinda Pregnant (2025)
Goodrich (2024)
The Shade (2024)
Elsbeth (2024)
No Hard Feelings (2023)
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime (2022)
The Gilded Age (2022)
Slugfest (2021)
Worth (2021)
Gossip Girl (2021)
Ziwe (2021)
Here Today (2021)
Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020 (2020)
Stars in the House (2020)
Tamron Hall (2019)
Tangled: Before Ever After (2017)
She Loves Me (2016)
Match Game (2016)
Supergirl (2015)
Younger (2015)
The Sound of Music Live! (2013)
Elementary (2012)
Go On (2012)
The Playboy Club (2011)
Meskada (2010)
The Good Wife (2009)
Royal Pains (2009)
Life on Mars (2008)
Falling for Grace (2006)
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards (2005)
Starved (2005)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Tony Awards (1956)
Everything's Going to Be Great
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1979-07-15 (45 years old)
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States
RelationshipsChristopher Barron Gross (2005 - 2006), Steven Pasquale (2007 - 2013)
FatherMartin Vidnovic
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsLaura Ilene Benanti, لورا بنانتی
AwardsTony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical
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