Name
Laura Benanti
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1979-07-15 (47 years old)
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.
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- 2017 She Loves Me: Behind the Curtain as Self
- 2006 Take the Lead as Tina
- 2021 tick, tick... BOOM! as Judy
- 2010 Meskada as Allison Connor
- 2022 Reopening: The Broadway Revival as Self
- 2024 Goodrich as Naomi
- 2010 Sondheim! The Birthday Concert as Self
- 2013 The Sound of Music Live! as Baroness Elsa Schrader
- 2022 Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime as Self (pre-recorded video)
- 2023 No Hard Feelings as Allison Becker
- 2024 The Shade as Renee Beckman
- 2006 Falling for Grace as Alexandra
- 2016 She Loves Me as Amalia
- 2016 Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale as Melania Trump
- 2025 Everything's Going to Be Great as Tallulah Bankhead
- 2017 Tangled: Before Ever After as Lady Caine (voice)
- 2005 Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards as Cinderella (segment "Into the Woods") (archive footage)
- 2021 Worth as Karen Donato
- 2021 Here Today as Francine
- 2020 Laura Benanti: Live From the West Side
- 2020 Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020 as Self - Host
- 2014 Russian Broadway Shut Down as Sophia
- 2025 Kinda Pregnant as Daisy's Mom
- Soon The Ditch
- Soon A Backstage Look at "The Wedding Singer" on Broadway as Self
- Soon Untitled Dan Perlman Project
- 2008 Eli Stone ( 5 episodes ) as Beth Keller
- 2005 Starved ( 7 episodes ) as Billie Frasier
- 2019 Tamron Hall ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2015 Supergirl ( 7 episodes ) as Alura Zor-El / Astra
- 2015 Younger ( 18 episodes ) as Quinn Tyler
- 2012 Go On ( 22 episodes ) as Lauren Schneider
- 2011 The Playboy Club ( 3 episodes ) as Bunny Carol-Lynne
- 2012 Elementary ( 1 episode ) as Anne Barker
- 2021 Gossip Girl ( 22 episodes ) as Kiki Hope
- 2021 Ziwe ( 1 episode ) as Jane
- 2021 Ziwe ( 1 episode ) as Fake Ziwe
- 2015 Supergirl ( 3 episodes ) as Alura Zor-El
- 2021 Slugfest ( 10 episodes ) as Louise Simonson
- 1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ( 9 episodes ) as Maria Grazie
- 2009 The Good Wife ( 2 episodes ) as Renata Ellard
- 2022 The Gilded Age ( 3 episodes ) as Susan Blane
- 2016 Match Game ( 1 episode ) as Self - Panelist
- 2022 Would I Lie to You? ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2008 Life on Mars ( 1 episode ) as Denise Carling
- 2016 The Detour ( 11 episodes ) as Edie
- 2020 Stars in the House ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2020 Stars in the House ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
- 2021 Ziwe ( 1 episode )
- 2024 Elsbeth ( 4 episodes ) as Nadine Clay
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 9 episodes ) as Melania Trump
- 2016 The $100,000 Pyramid ( 1 episode )
- 2009 Royal Pains ( 8 episodes ) as Shelby Shackelford
- 2017 Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure ( 1 episode ) as Lady Caine (voice)
- 2021 Mayor of Kingstown ( 10 episodes ) as Cindy Stephens
- 2013 Beat Bobby Flay ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Performer
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Winner
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Nominee
- 2009 Nurse Jackie ( 7 episodes ) as Mia
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Juror 11
- 2026 Shut Up Evan ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
