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Laura Benanti

Laura Ilene Benanti (née Vidnovic; born July 15, 1979) [1] is an American actress and singer.

Laura Benanti
Benanti in 2012 Drama League Benefit Gala
Born
Laura Ilene Vidnovic

(1979-07-15) July 15, 1979 (age 45)
New York City, U.S.
Occupation(s)Actress, singer
Years active1998–present
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Benanti made her Broadway debut as an ensemble member and later as Maria von Trapp in the 1998 revival of The Sound of Music. Benanti went on to win the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical playing Louise in the revival of Gypsy (2008). She was Tony-nominated for her roles in Swing! (2000), Into the Woods (2002), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010), and She Loves Me (2016). Her other notable Broadway roles include Nine (2003), In the Next Room (2009), Meteor Shower (2017), and My Fair Lady (2018).

On television she has had roles as Lauren Bennett on the NBC sitcom Go On (2012–2013), Sadie Stone in the ABC musical drama series Nashville (2014–2015), Alura and Astra in the CBS series Supergirl (2015–2016), Edie Randall in the TBS comedy The Detour (2017–2019), Kiki Hope in the HBO Max revival Gossip Girl (2021–2023), and as Susan Blane in the HBO drama series The Gilded Age (2023).

Since 2016, she has had a recurring role as First Lady Melania Trump on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Early life

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Benanti was born in New York City to Linda Wonneberger, a vocal coach and former actress, and Martin Vidnovic, a Broadway actor and singer.[2] She is of Serbian,[3] German, and Irish heritage.[4] Her parents divorced when she was young. She soon moved to Kinnelon, New Jersey, with her mother and stepfather Salvatore Benanti, a psychotherapist, whose name she took and whom she refers to as her father.[2][5]

Benanti remembers being "very serious" and "a bit of an ugly duckling" as a child; she was intensely interested in musical theatre, saying she "came out of the womb as a 40-year-old". She was particularly interested in the music of Stephen Sondheim at an early age and distanced herself from other children.[5][6] In 2008, Benanti told The New York Times that she drew on this loneliness in her portrayal of the neglected Louise in Gypsy.[6] Though her parents refused to let Laura audition for professional theatre, Laura appeared in several high school and community productions, including Evita (as Perón's mistress), Follies (as Young Heidi), and Into the Woods (as Cinderella).[4] At 16, Benanti played the title role in her high school production of Hello, Dolly! and won a Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award for Outstanding Actress in a high school production.[7] She graduated from Kinnelon High School in 1997.[7]

Career

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1998–2006: Broadway debut and early roles

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In 1998, Paper Mill's then-artistic director Robert Johanson recommended Benanti for the role of Liesl in a Broadway revival of The Sound of Music. She auditioned for the show's producers and was considered too mature-looking to play Liesl, but, after several call-backs, was signed at the age of 18 to play one of the nuns and to understudy Rebecca Luker as Maria. Benanti played the role for two weeks while Luker was on vacation, and, at 19, took over the role when Luker left the production.[2] Michael Buckley of Playbill later wrote that Benanti "was an absolutely wonderful Maria ... As do others, I believe that had she opened in the show, Benanti would have been an overnight sensation."[4] When she was cast in The Sound of Music, Benanti had attended New York University for two weeks; the dean recommended she go on leave to take the job.[8]

In 1999, Benanti appeared in the Broadway revue Swing!, for which she received a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. In 2000, she co-starred with Donna Murphy in the critically acclaimed New York City Center Encores! concert production of the Leonard Bernstein-Betty Comden-Adolph Green musical Wonderful Town. Benanti can be heard on the original cast albums of each of her Broadway roles, as well as compilation albums of Stephen Schwartz and Maury Yeston. She participated in a studio cast recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Allegro, which was released by Sony Classics in February 2009. She also appears as a guest artist on the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, D.C.'s live album, You've Got to Be Carefully Taught: The Songs of Hammerstein & Sondheim, taken from a 2002 performance at the Kennedy Center. A songwriter and guitarist, Benanti has written songs privately since at least the early 2000s;[5] in 2005, she said that she was working on a folk-rock solo CD, though "Musical theatre is my first love[...]I want to take my music and orchestrate it in a kind of old fashioned style, and take some standards and 'popularize' them—do a true crossover. I'm working on it."[4]

In 2002, Benanti played Cinderella (a role she had played as a teenager) in the Broadway revival of Into the Woods and received both a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical and a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. During a mid-performance pratfall in Into the Woods, Benanti fractured her neck, herniating two discs directly onto her spinal cord and cutting off spinal fluid, a condition that sometimes leads to paralysis.[4][6] The injury was misdiagnosed, and Into the Woods producers asked Benanti not to mention her injury; when she began missing performances due to neck problems, rumors spread that Benanti was behaving unprofessionally, something that she called "really hurtful". She said, "I had a serious injury and there was absolutely no way I could have done the show. I tried to. I tried to go back and do it but I physically couldn't."[9] Benanti was eventually replaced in the show by Erin Dilly. Eight months after her initial injury, Benanti was rediagnosed and received surgery that could have damaged her voice but was successful, though as of 2005 she still experienced neck pain and myelopathy.[4][6]

Three weeks after undergoing spinal surgery, Benanti started previews in March 2003 for the Broadway revival of Nine, in which she played Claudia, a movie star who inspires Guido, a director played by Antonio Banderas.[6] She left the show in September 2003. Benanti appeared in the World AIDS Day concerts of Pippin, Children of Eden, and The Secret Garden.[10][11][12] From April to December 2006, she played Julia Sullivan in the Broadway musical The Wedding Singer.[13] In addition to stage roles, Benanti was a regular on the short-lived FX sitcom Starved (2005), which received mixed reviews,[14][15] but Benanti described it as "a good experience. I got a lot of camera experience, which was something I just hadn't had."[9] In 2006, she appeared in two films: Take the Lead, in which she reunited with her Nine co-star Antonio Banderas,[16] and Falling for Grace as Princess Alexandra.[17][18] In 2008, Benanti had a recurring role on the ABC television series Eli Stone. She appeared in the pilot for the TV show as well.[19][20]

2007–2015: Gypsy and acclaim

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In July 2007, Benanti played in a three-week limited run of the musical Gypsy in the Encores! staged concert production at the New York City Center as Louise, alongside Patti LuPone as Rose and Boyd Gaines as Herbie. In March 2008, the production transferred to Broadway, where it ran until January 2009 and received widespread critical acclaim. Benanti's performance as Louise was praised, with The New York Times's Ben Brantley declaring it "the performance of her career".[21] She won several awards, including a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical.

Benanti appeared in The Public Theater's world-premiere production of Christopher Durang's play Why Torture Is Wrong, And the People Who Love Them from April 6 to 26, 2009.[22] She next appeared in the Lincoln Center Theater's production of Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) beginning previews on October 22, 2009, and opening on November 19, 2009, at the Lyceum Theatre.[23] Benanti appeared in the new musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown on Broadway from October 8, 2010, until January 2, 2011. She received a Tony nomination and won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance.[24] In 2011, she was cast in the NBC series The Playboy Club, which was canceled after three episodes.[25] Benanti played the wife of Dr. Atticus Sherman on Episode 11 of Season Two of The Big C, entitled "Fight Or Flight".[26] In 2011 and 2012, Benanti had a recurring role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Detective Nick Amaro's wife.[27] Benanti played the role of Lauren Bennett, a leader of a support group, on the NBC series, Go On.[28] Go On was canceled in May 2013 after one season.[29]

 
Benanti with Derek Hough and Jared Grimes at the Radio City Music Hall Spring Spectacular in 2015

In June 2013, Benanti performed as the soprano soloist in the San Francisco premiere of Andrew Lippa's oratorio, I Am Harvey Milk.[30] She played Goddess in The Public Theater's musical adaptation of The Tempest, which was presented at the Delacorte Theatre from September 6 through 8, 2013.[31] She had a recurring role on the USA series Royal Pains.[32] On October 17, 2013, Benanti appeared in an episode of Elementary on CBS.[33] She also appeared in Nurse Jackie and The Good Wife.[34][35] On December 5, 2013, Benanti played Elsa Schräder in the NBC production of The Sound of Music Live![36][37] In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention, a live recording of Benanti's concert engagement at 54 Below, was released by Broadway Records in September 2013.[38] In 2014, she was cast as country singer Sadie Stone in the ABC musical drama series Nashville for its third season, recording and performing several songs during her arc.[39] From April 2 through 6, 2014, Benanti starred as Rosabella in the New York City Center Encores! staged concert production of Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella alongside Shuler Hensley, Cheyenne Jackson, Jay Armstrong Johnson, and Heidi Blickenstaff.[40]

In 2015, she joined the cast of Supergirl, where she has a recurring role as Alura In-Ze, Zor-El's wife and mother of Kara[41] and Alura's twin sister General Astra, who wants to take over Earth as its new ruler and destroy her niece Kara.[42] In July 2017, it was announced that Benanti would not return to the series for its third season due to her work schedule and that Erica Durance would assume the role of Alura.[43] Benanti guest-starred as Edie, a United States Postal Service inspector, in the second season of The Detour and was later promoted to a series regular for season three.[44] On February 16, 2015, Benanti played Lucille Frank in the Manhattan Concert Productions presentation of Parade at Avery Fisher Hall, alongside Jeremy Jordan as Leo Frank.[45] She appeared in New York Spring Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall from March 12 through May 7, 2015.[46]

2016–present

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Benanti has portrayed Melania Trump numerous times on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Benanti starred in the lead role of Amalia Balash in the 2016 Roundabout Theatre Company Broadway revival of She Loves Me opposite Zachary Levi. The production began previews at Studio 54 on February 19, 2016, and opened on March 17 for a limited engagement through July 10.[47][48][49] She received a nomination for Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for this role. On July 19, 2016, Benanti first impersonated Melania Trump on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert during the run-up to that year's U.S. presidential election,[50] a role she reprised in subsequent appearances on that show.[51] In 2017, Benanti once again acted on Broadway in Steve Martin's comedic play Meteor Shower, along with Keegan-Michael Key as Gerald, Amy Schumer as Corky, and Jeremy Shamos as Norm. The play premiered on Broadway on November 1, 2017, in previews, officially on November 29, 2017, at the Booth Theatre. The play closed on January 21, 2018.[52]

Benanti replaced Lauren Ambrose as Eliza Doolittle in the Broadway Lincoln Center Theater revival of My Fair Lady, beginning October 23, 2018, for a limited run through February 17, 2019, except for Tuesday nights with Kerstin Anderson in the role.[53] Benanti extended her appearance in the musical to July 7, 2019.[54] In 2019, she joined the cast of Younger, playing the role of businesswoman and author Quinn Tyler. Benanti released her self-titled first solo album in 2020.[55] In 2021, Benanti played the role of Francine in the film Here Today, co-written and directed by Billy Crystal, starring Crystal and Tiffany Haddish. In 2023, she played the role of Allison Becker in No Hard Feelings, which starred Jennifer Lawrence.

Personal life

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Benanti met Chris Barron, lead singer of the Spin Doctors, in the early 2000s. They married on July 25, 2005, but by the end of that year were in the process of a divorce,[56] which was finalized in 2006.[4] At the 2005 World AIDS Day "dream cast" concert of The Secret Garden, she met actor Steven Pasquale. They married in September 2007 and mutually filed for divorce in July 2013.[57][58]

On June 12, 2015, she became engaged to Patrick Brown.[59] They married on November 15, 2015.[60] In 2017, they had a daughter, Ella.[61] A second daughter, Louisa, was born via surrogate in 2022.[62] On April 7, 2023, Benanti announced that she had suffered a miscarriage while on stage at a Broadway themed cruise. Knowing she was having the miscarriage, she continued to perform saying that "if it had been our first loss, or even our second, I likely wouldn't have been able to go on […] but unfortunately I am not a stranger to the pain and emptiness of losing a pregnancy".[63]

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2006 Take the Lead Tina
Falling for Grace Alexandra
2010 Meskada Allison Connor
2016 She Loves Me Amalia Balash Recorded live on Broadway, airing in cinemas[64]
2020 Worth Karen Abate
2021 Here Today Francine Burnz [65]
Tick, Tick... Boom! Judy Wright
2023 No Hard Feelings Allison Becker
The Shade Renee Beckman
2024 Goodrich Naomi
TBA Everything's Going to Be Great Tallulah Bankhead Post-production

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2005 Starved Billie Frasier 7 episodes
2008 Eli Stone Beth Keller 5 episodes
2009 Life on Mars Denise Carling Episode: "Home Is Where You Hang Your Holster"
2010 Open Books June Television film
2011 The Big C Gia Sherman Episode: "Fight or Flight"
The Playboy Club Carol-Lynne Cunningham 6 episodes
2011–2014 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Maria Grazie 9 episodes
2012–2013 Go On Lauren Bennett 22 episodes
2013 It Could Be Worse Kendra Episode: "What's Your Secret?"
Royal Pains Shelby Shackleford 8 episodes
Elementary Anne Barker / Abigail Spencer Episode: "Poison Pen"
The Sound of Music Live! Elsa Schrader Television special
2014 Nurse Jackie Mia Peyton 7 episodes
2014–2015 The Good Wife Renata Ellard 2 episodes
Nashville Sadie Stone 15 episodes
2015–2016 Supergirl Alura Zor-El / Astra In-Ze 10 episodes
2016–2024 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Melania Trump Recurring[66][67][68][69]
2017 Tangled: Before Ever After Lady Caine (voice) Television film
2017–2019 The Detour Edie Randall 21 episodes
Tangled: The Series Lady Caine (voice) 2 episodes
2018 Beat Bobby Flay Herself Guest host; Episode: "Stealing the Spotlight"
2018–2021 Younger Quinn Tyler 18 episodes
2020 At Home with Amy Sedaris Pipper Episode: "Babies"
Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020 Herself Documentary special; also executive producer
2021 Ziwe Jane / Fake Ziwe 2 episodes
2021–2023 Gossip Girl Kiki Hope 11 episodes[70]
2022 Inside Amy Schumer Laura 2 episodes
Would I Lie to You? Herself Episode: "Show Goat"
2022–2024 Life & Beth Jane 12 episodes
2023 The Gilded Age Susan Blane 3 episodes
2024 Elsbeth Nadine Clay 2 episodes

Theatre

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Year Title Role Notes
1998 The Sound of Music A Postulant Broadway
1998–1999 Maria Von Trapp Broadway replacement
1999 Swing! Performer Broadway
2000 Wonderful Town Eileen Sherwood Encores!
2002 Into the Woods Cinderella Ahmanson Theatre
Broadway
2003 Nine Claudia Nardi Broadway
The Violet Hour Rosamund Plinth Broadway (Withdrawn during rehearsals)
2004 A Little Night Music Anne Los Angeles Opera
Pippin Catherine World AIDS Day Benefit
2005 The Secret Garden Lily Craven World AIDS Day Benefit
2006 The Wedding Singer Julia Sullivan Broadway
2007 Gypsy Louise Encores!
2008–2009 Broadway
2009 Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them Felicity Off-Broadway
2009–2010 In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) Mrs. Givings Broadway
2010–2011 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Candela Broadway
2013 I Am Harvey Milk The Soprano San Francisco
The Tempest Goddess Off-Broadway
2014 The Most Happy Fella Rosabella Encores!
2015 Parade Lucille Frank Avery Fisher Hall
New York Spring Spectacular Jenna Radio City Music Hall
2016 She Loves Me Amalia Balash Broadway
2017–2018 Meteor Shower Laura Broadway
2018–2019 My Fair Lady Eliza Doolittle Broadway replacement
2023 Love Letters Melissa Gardner Irish Repertory Theatre

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Nominated work Result
2000 Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Musical Swing! Nominated
2002 Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Musical Into the Woods Nominated
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominated
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Nominated
2003 Drama League Award Distinguished Performance Nine Nominated
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Nominated
2008 Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Musical Gypsy Won
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Won
Drama League Award Distinguished Performance Nominated
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Won
2010 Drama League Award Distinguished Performance In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) Nominated
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Actress in a Play Nominated
2011 Tony Award Best Featured Actress in a Musical Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Nominated
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Won
Drama League Award Distinguished Performance Nominated
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Won
2016 Tony Award Best Actress in a Musical She Loves Me Nominated
Drama Desk Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominated
Drama League Award Distinguished Performance Nominated
Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Actress in a Musical Nominated
Saturn Awards Best Guest Starring Role on Television Supergirl Nominated
2018 Drama League Award Distinguished Performance Meteor Shower Nominated

Discography

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Year Title Record label
2013 In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention Broadway Records[71][72]
2020 Laura Benanti Masterworks Broadway

Singles

  • "I Like Musicals" (2016)

Broadway recordings

Studio and concert recordings

  • The Stephen Schwartz Album – 1999 Studio Recording
  • The Maury Yeston Songbook – 2003 Studio Recording
  • NEO (New, Emerging... Outstanding!) – 2003 Concert Recording
  • You've Got To Be Carefully Taught: The Songs of Sondheim & Hammerstein – 2003 Gay Men's Chorus Of Washington D.C. Recording
  • Hair – 2004 Concert Recording
  • Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim – 2006 Concert Recording
  • Allegro – 2008 Studio Recording
  • A Little Princess – 2010 Studio Recording
  • Songs from Amberland: Edie's Reckoning – 2022 Single Recording

Soundtracks

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