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Laura Benanti

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.

As actor 55

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit poster
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert poster
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Elementary poster
Elementary
2012
The Good Wife poster
The Good Wife
2009
Elsbeth poster
Elsbeth
2024
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Supergirl
2015
Tamron Hall poster
Tamron Hall
2019
Mayor of Kingstown poster
Mayor of Kingstown
2021
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Nurse Jackie
2009
Tony Awards poster
Tony Awards
1956
Royal Pains poster
Royal Pains
2009
The Gilded Age poster
The Gilded Age
2022
Younger poster
Younger
2015
Beat Bobby Flay poster
Beat Bobby Flay
2013
Stars in the House poster
Stars in the House
2020
The $100,000 Pyramid poster
The $100,000 Pyramid
2016
Match Game poster
Match Game
2016
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Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure
2017
Gossip Girl poster
Gossip Girl
2021
No Hard Feelings poster
No Hard Feelings
2023
Life on Mars poster
Life on Mars
2008
Go On poster
Go On
2012
Eli Stone poster
Eli Stone
2008
Slugfest poster
Slugfest
2021
The Detour poster
The Detour
2016
Ziwe poster
Ziwe
2021
tick, tick... BOOM! poster
tick, tick... BOOM!
2021
Would I Lie to You? poster
Would I Lie to You?
2022
Take the Lead poster
Take the Lead
2006
Kinda Pregnant poster
Kinda Pregnant
2025
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Goodrich
2024
Tangled: Before Ever After poster
Tangled: Before Ever After
2017
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Worth
2021
Shut Up Evan poster
Shut Up Evan
2026
Here Today poster
Here Today
2021
The Playboy Club poster
The Playboy Club
2011
Starved poster
Starved
2005
Everything's Going to Be Great poster
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025
Meskada poster
Meskada
2010
Russian Broadway Shut Down poster
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
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Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
The Ditch
The Sound of Music Live! poster
The Sound of Music Live!
2013
Reopening: The Broadway Revival poster
Reopening: The Broadway Revival
2022
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert poster
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
2010
Falling for Grace poster
Falling for Grace
2006
She Loves Me poster
She Loves Me
2016
The Shade poster
The Shade
2024
Untitled Dan Perlman Project
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime poster
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime
2022
Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale poster
Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale
2016
Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020 poster
Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020
2020
A Backstage Look at "The Wedding Singer" on Broadway poster
A Backstage Look at "The Wedding Singer" on Broadway
She Loves Me: Behind the Curtain poster
She Loves Me: Behind the Curtain
2017
Laura Benanti: Live From the West Side poster
Laura Benanti: Live From the West Side
2020

On the crew 1

Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020 poster
Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020
2020