Laura Benanti
Actor
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.
Filmography
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as Judy 2021
Take the Lead
as Tina 2006
Tangled: Before Ever After
as Lady Caine (voice) 2017
Worth
as Karen Donato 2021
Kinda Pregnant
as Daisy's Mom 2025
Here Today
as Francine 2021
Goodrich
as Naomi 2024
The Sound of Music Live!
as Baroness Elsa Schrader 2013
Meskada
as Allison Connor 2010
Falling for Grace
as Alexandra 2006
Everything's Going to Be Great
as Tallulah Bankhead 2025
The Shade
as Renee Beckman 2024
She Loves Me
as Amalia 2016
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
as Self 2010
Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale
as Melania Trump 2016
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Cinderella (segment "Into the Woods") (archive footage) 2005