Laura Benanti
Acting
1979-07-15 · 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.
Filmography
Shut Up Evan
2026 · Series
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025 · Movie
Kinda Pregnant
2025 · Movie
Goodrich
2024 · Movie
The Shade
2024 · Movie
Elsbeth
2024 · Series
No Hard Feelings
2023 · Movie
Would I Lie to You?
2022 · Series
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime
2022 · Movie
The Gilded Age
2022 · Series
Reopening: The Broadway Revival
2022 · Movie
Slugfest
2021 · Series
Mayor of Kingstown
2021 · Series
tick, tick... BOOM!
2021 · Movie
Worth
2021 · Movie
Gossip Girl
2021 · Series
Ziwe
2021 · Series
Here Today
2021 · Movie
Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020
2020 · Movie
Laura Benanti: Live From the West Side
2020 · Movie
Stars in the House
2020 · Series
The Tamron Hall Show
2019 · Series
She Loves Me: Behind the Curtain
2017 · Movie
Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure
2017 · Series
Tangled: Before Ever After
2017 · Movie
Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale
2016 · Movie
She Loves Me
2016 · Movie
The $100,000 Pyramid
2016 · Series
Match Game
2016 · Series
The Detour
2016 · Series
Supergirl
2015 · Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
Younger
2015 · Series
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014 · Movie
The Sound of Music Live!
2013 · Movie
Beat Bobby Flay
2013 · Series
Elementary
2012 · Series
Go On
2012 · Series
The Playboy Club
2011 · Series
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
2010 · Movie
Meskada
2010 · Movie
The Good Wife
2009 · Series
Nurse Jackie
2009 · Series
Royal Pains
2009 · Series
Life on Mars
2008 · Series
Eli Stone
2008 · Series
Falling for Grace
2006 · Movie
Take the Lead
2006 · Movie
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005 · Movie
Starved
2005 · Series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
Tony Awards
1956 · Series
The Ditch
Movie
A Backstage Look at "The Wedding Singer" on Broadway
Movie
Untitled Dan Perlman Project
Movie