Laura Benanti
Known for: Acting
Born: July 15, 1979
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
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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Filmography
26 movies · 29 TV shows, newest first
5.5
Shut Up Evan
2026
6.0
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025
5.6
Kinda Pregnant
2025
6.5
Goodrich
2024
4.9
The Shade
2024
6.7
Elsbeth
2024
6.7
No Hard Feelings
2023
4.0
Would I Lie to You?
2022
NR
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime
2022
7.7
The Gilded Age
2022
NR
Reopening: The Broadway Revival
2022
5.8
Slugfest
2021
8.0
Mayor of Kingstown
2021
7.6
tick, tick... BOOM!
2021
6.7
Worth
2021
7.3
Gossip Girl
2021
6.2
Ziwe
2021
6.9
Here Today
2021
6.0
Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020
2020
NR
Laura Benanti: Live From the West Side
2020
NR
Stars in the House
2020
4.5
Tamron Hall
2019
NR
She Loves Me: Behind the Curtain
2017
7.4
Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure
2017
6.8
Tangled: Before Ever After
2017
5.2
Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale
2016
7.7
She Loves Me
2016
7.0
The $100,000 Pyramid
2016
6.4
Match Game
2016
7.1
The Detour
2016
7.3
Supergirl
2015
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.9
Younger
2015
NR
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
6.3
The Sound of Music Live!
2013
6.2
Beat Bobby Flay
2013
7.6
Elementary
2012
6.5
Go On
2012
5.3
The Playboy Club
2011
8.0
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
2010
4.6
Meskada
2010
7.6
The Good Wife
2009
7.1
Nurse Jackie
2009
6.8
Royal Pains
2009
6.4
Life on Mars
2008
6.7
Eli Stone
2008
5.2
Falling for Grace
2006
6.9
Take the Lead
2006
7.2
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005
4.7
Starved
2005
8.0
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
NR
Tony Awards
1956NR
The Ditch
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NR
A Backstage Look at "The Wedding Singer" on Broadway
—NR
Untitled Dan Perlman Project
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