Born and raised in Denver, Ashford now splits her time between Los Angeles and New York.The problem starts with the title. Her additional Broadway credits include Sunday in the Park with George, Wicked, Legally Blonde and the originating role of Lauren in Kinky Boots, a performance for which she received another Tony Award nomination.
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She starred in two seasons of the hit CBS comedy B Positive. Created by Marco Pennette and Chuck Lorre, the series also starred legendary actors Linda Lavin, Hector Elizondo and Ben Vereen.No stranger to Broadway, Ashford won the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her portrayal of Essie in You Can’t Take It with You. Ashford most recently starred Paula Jones in the new Ryan Murphy FX series American Crime Story: Impeachment, based on the national crisis that swept up Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp as principal characters in the country’s first impeachment proceedings in over a century.
The team behind Hamilton, producer, Jeffrey Seller and director, Thomas Kail, will be at the helm of the production. In March of 2023, Ashford will return to Broadway and star opposite Josh Groban in the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The film will stream on Disney’s DTC platforms as a Hulu Original.
Ashford is currently in production on Searchlight Pictures’ horror thriller, Dust, starring opposite Sarah Paulson and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. Ashford will next be seen starring opposite Kumail Nanjiani in the Hulu limited series Welcome to Chippendales from creator Robert Siegel premiering on November 22. Tony Award-winning actor Annaleigh Ashford has spent her career collaborating with acclaimed directors and actors across stage, film and television and she continues that award-winning work with several upcoming projects. Nielsen is a graduate of Northwestern University and the Yale School of Drama. Television: Happyish, Elementary, Political Animals, NBC’s The Sound of Music Live, Amazon’s Z: The Beginning of Everything. Film: Trouble, Morning Glory, The Savages, Small Time Crooks. Nielsen has worked regionally all over the country, including at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, Goodman Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Folger Theatre (D.C.), and most recently at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton in Durang’s Turning Off the Morning News. Off-Broadway credits include A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur Taylor Mac’s Hir How I Spent Last Summer Omnium Gatherum Our Leading Lady The Killer Dog Opera (Obie Award) and Christopher Durang’s Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them Miss Witherspoon and Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie). Kristine Nielsen's Broadway credits include Present Laughter, You Can’t Take It With You, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Spring Awakening, The Green Bird, Jackie, and The Iceman Cometh (1986).
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