Laura Benanti
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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Movies (26)
Everything's Going to Be Great
2025 · Tallulah Bankhead
Algo embarazada
2025 · Daisy's Mom
El Padre Del Año
2024 · Naomi
The Shade
2024 · Renee Beckman
Hazme el favor
2023 · Allison Becker
Becoming Benanti: The Role of a Lifetime
2022 · Self (pre-recorded video)
Reopening: The Broadway Revival
2022 · Self
tick, tick... BOOM!
2021 · Judy
¿Cuánto vale la vida?
2021 · Karen Donato
Aqui y ahora
2021 · Francine
Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020
2020 · Self - Host, Producer
Laura Benanti: Live From the West Side
2020
She Loves Me: Behind the Curtain
2017 · Self
Enredados otra vez
2017 · Lady Caine (voice)
Stephen Colbert's Live Election Night Democracy's Series Finale
2016 · Melania Trump
She Loves Me
2016 · Amalia
Russian Broadway Shut Down
2014 · Sophia
The Sound of Music Live!
2013 · Baroness Elsa Schrader
Sondheim! The Birthday Concert
2010 · Self
Meskada
2010 · Allison Connor
Falling for Grace
2006 · Alexandra
Ritmo y seducción
2006 · Tina
Broadway's Lost Treasures III: The Best of The Tony Awards
2005 · Cinderella (segment "Into the Woods") (archive footage)
The Ditch
A Backstage Look at "The Wedding Singer" on Broadway
· Self
Untitled Dan Perlman Project
TV shows (29)
Shut Up Evan
2026 · Self - Guest
Elsbeth
2024 · Nadine Clay
Would I Lie to You?
2022 · Self
The Gilded Age
2022 · Susan Blane
Slugfest
2021 · Louise Simonson
Mayor of Kingstown
2021 · Cindy Stephens
Gossip Girl
2021 · Kiki Hope
Ziwe
2021 · Jane, Fake Ziwe
Stars in the House
2020 · Self, Self - Host
The Tamron Hall Show
2019 · Self - Guest
Las aventuras enredadas de Rapunzel: Rapunzel y el gran árbol
2017 · Lady Caine (voice)
The $100,000 Pyramid
2016 · Self
Match Game
2016 · Self - Panelist
Desviados
2016 · Edie
Supergirl
2015 · Alura Zor-El / Astra, Alura Zor-El
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Melania Trump, Self - Guest, Juror 11
Younger
2015 · Quinn Tyler
Derrota a Bobby Flay
2013 · Self
Elementary
2012 · Anne Barker
Go On
2012 · Lauren Schneider
The Playboy Club
2011 · Bunny Carol-Lynne
La esposa ejemplar
2009 · Renata Ellard
Nurse Jackie
2009 · Mia
Royal Pains
2009 · Shelby Shackelford
Life on Mars
2008 · Denise Carling
Eli Stone
2008 · Beth Keller
Starved
2005 · Billie Frasier
La Ley y el Orden: Unidad de Víctimas Especiales
1999 · Maria Grazie
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Performer, Self - Winner, Self - Nominee