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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 15, 1979
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Laura Ilene Benanti
- لورا بنانتی
Laura Benanti
0.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Tallulah Bankhead
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025
5.6
Daisy's Mom
Kinda Pregnant
2025
6.1
Naomi
Goodrich
2024
5.0
Renee Beckman
The Shade
2024
7.3
Nadine Clay
Elsbeth
2024
6.7
Allison Becker
No Hard Feelings
2023
4.0
Self
Would I Lie to You?
2022
0.0
Self (pre-recorded video)
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime
2022
7.8
Susan Blane
The Gilded Age
2022
0.0
Self
Reopening: The Broadway Revival
2022
Credits
Everything's Going to Be Great
as Tallulah Bankhead
2025
0.0
Kinda Pregnant
as Daisy's Mom
2025
5.6
Goodrich
as Naomi
2024
6.1
The Shade
as Renee Beckman
2024
5.0
Elsbeth
as Nadine Clay
2024
7.3
No Hard Feelings
as Allison Becker
2023
6.7
Would I Lie to You?
as Self
2022
4.0
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime
as Self (pre-recorded video)
2022
0.0
The Gilded Age
as Susan Blane
2022
7.8
Reopening: The Broadway Revival
as Self
2022
0.0
Slugfest
as Louise Simonson
2021
6.3
tick, tick... BOOM!
as Judy
2021
7.6
Worth
as Karen Donato
2021
6.7
Gossip Girl
as Kiki Hope
2021
7.3
Ziwe
as Fake Ziwe
2021
5.7
Ziwe
as Jane
2021
5.7
Ziwe
2021
5.7
Here Today
as Francine
2021
7.0
Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020
as Self - Host
2020
6.0
Laura Benanti: Live From the West Side
2020
0.0
Stars in the House
as Self
2020
0.0
Stars in the House
as Self - Host
2020
0.0
Tamron Hall
as Self - Guest
2019
5.1
She Loves Me: Behind the Curtain
as Self
2017
0.0
Tangled: Before Ever After
as Lady Caine (voice)
2017
6.8
Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale
as Melania Trump
2016
5.2
She Loves Me
as Amalia
2016
7.7
The $100,000 Pyramid
2016
7.4
Match Game
as Self - Panelist
2016
5.9
The Detour
as Edie
2016
7.1
Supergirl
as Alura Zor-El / Astra
2015
7.3
Supergirl
as Alura Zor-El
2015
7.3
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.3
Younger
as Quinn Tyler
2015
6.8
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014
0.0
The Sound of Music Live!
as Baroness Elsa Schrader
2013
6.3
Elementary
as Anne Barker
2012
7.6
Go On
as Lauren Schneider
2012
6.4
The Playboy Club
as Bunny Carol-Lynne
2011
5.5
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
as Self
2010
8.0
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
as Candela
2010
0.0
Meskada
as Allison Connor
2010
4.7
The Good Wife
as Renata Ellard
2009
7.6
Royal Pains
as Shelby Shackelford
2009
6.7
Life on Mars
as Denise Carling
2008
6.5
Eli Stone
as Beth Keller
2008
6.8
Falling for Grace
as Alexandra
2006
5.2
Take the Lead
as Tina
2006
6.9
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
as Cinderella (segment "Into the Woods") (archive footage)
2005
7.2
Starved
as Billie Frasier
2005
4.2
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Maria Grazie
1999
7.9
Tony Awards
as Self - Nominee
1956
5.1
Tony Awards
as Self - Winner
1956
5.1
Tony Awards
as Self - Performer
1956
5.1