Laura Benanti
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.
52 acting credits
Acting · 52
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Good Wife
2009
Elementary
2012
Supergirl
2015
Mayor of Kingstown
2021
Elsbeth
2024
Younger
2015
Tony Awards
1956
Tamron Hall
2019
Stars in the House
2020
Royal Pains
2009
Beat Bobby Flay
2013
The Gilded Age
2022
Nurse Jackie
2009
Eli Stone
2008
Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure
2017
Match Game
2016
Gossip Girl
2021
Life on Mars
2008
No Hard Feelings
2023
The $100,000 Pyramid
2016
The Detour
2016
Go On
2012
Slugfest
2021
Ziwe
2021
Would I Lie to You?
2022
The Playboy Club
2011
tick, tick... BOOM!
2021
Tangled: Before Ever After
2017
Kinda Pregnant
2025
Starved
2005
Worth
2021
Take the Lead
2006
Goodrich
2024
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025
Here Today
2021
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
Meskada
2010
The Sound of Music Live!
2013
Reopening: The Broadway Revival
2022
She Loves Me
2016
The Shade
2024
Falling for Grace
2006
Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale
2016
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
2010
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime
2022
She Loves Me: Behind the Curtain
2017
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
Laura Benanti: Live From the West Side
2020
The Ditch
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Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020
2020