Laura Benanti
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 15, 1979
- Place of birth
- New York City, New York, USA
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.
Movies with Laura Benanti
- No Hard Feelings 2023 · ★ 6.7
- tick, tick... BOOM! 2021 · ★ 7.6
- Take the Lead 2006 · ★ 6.9
- Tangled: Before Ever After 2017 · ★ 6.8
- Worth 2021 · ★ 6.7
- Kinda Pregnant 2025 · ★ 5.6
- Here Today 2021 · ★ 6.9
- Goodrich 2024 · ★ 6.4
- The Sound of Music Live! 2013 · ★ 6.2
- Everything's Going to Be Great 2025 · ★ 6.0
- Meskada 2010 · ★ 4.6
- Falling for Grace 2006 · ★ 5.2
- The Shade 2024 · ★ 5.0
- She Loves Me 2016 · ★ 7.7
- Sondheim! The Birthday Concert 2010 · ★ 8.0
- Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale 2016 · ★ 5.2
- Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards 2005 · ★ 7.2
- Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020 2020 · ★ 6.0
- She Loves Me: Behind the Curtain 2017
- Reopening: The Broadway Revival 2022
- Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime 2022
- Laura Benanti: Live From the West Side 2020
- Russian Broadway Shut Down 2014