
Laura Benanti
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.
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Known For
Acting History
2025
Everything's Going to Be Great as Tallulah Bankhead
2025Kinda Pregnant as Daisy's Mom
2024Goodrich as Naomi
2024The Shade as Renee Beckman
2024Elsbeth as Nadine Clay
2023No Hard Feelings as Allison Becker
2022Would I Lie to You? as Self
2022Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime as Self (pre-recorded video)
2022The Gilded Age as Susan Blane
2022Reopening: The Broadway Revival as Self
2021Slugfest as Louise Simonson
2021Mayor of Kingstown as Cindy Stephens
2021tick, tick... BOOM! as Judy
2021Worth as Karen Donato
2021Gossip Girl as Kiki Hope
2021Ziwe as Jane
2021Ziwe as Fake Ziwe
2021Ziwe
2021Here Today as Francine
2020Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020 as Self - Host
2020Laura Benanti: Live From the West Side
2020Stars in the House as Self
2020Stars in the House as Self - Host
2019Tamron Hall as Self - Guest
2017She Loves Me: Behind the Curtain as Self
2017Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure as Lady Caine (voice)
2017Tangled: Before Ever After as Lady Caine (voice)
2016Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale as Melania Trump
2016She Loves Me as Amalia
2016The $100,000 Pyramid
2016Match Game as Self - Panelist
2016The Detour as Edie
2015Supergirl as Alura Zor-El / Astra
2015Supergirl as Alura Zor-El
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Melania Trump
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Younger as Quinn Tyler
2015Parade in Concert as Lucille Frank
2014Russian Broadway Shut Down as Sophia
2013The Sound of Music Live! as Baroness Elsa Schrader
2013Beat Bobby Flay as Self
2012Elementary as Anne Barker
2012Go On as Lauren Schneider
2011The Playboy Club as Bunny Carol-Lynne
2010Sondheim! The Birthday Concert as Self
2010Meskada as Allison Connor
2009The Good Wife as Renata Ellard
2009Royal Pains as Shelby Shackelford
2008Life on Mars as Denise Carling
2008Eli Stone as Beth Keller
2006Falling for Grace as Alexandra
2006Take the Lead as Tina
2005Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Cinderella (segment "Into the Woods") (archive footage)
2005Starved as Billie Frasier
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Maria Grazie
1956Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1956Tony Awards as Self - Winner
1956Tony Awards as Self - Performer
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