Tony Award-winner and five-time Tony Award nominee Laura Benanti is a highly celebrated stage and screen actress who makes her London debut with this performance.
Benanti returned to Broadway this autumn as Eliza Doolittle in Lincoln Center’s acclaimed revival of My Fair Lady. Benanti was recently seen onstage opposite Amy Schumer in Steve Martin’s hit Broadway play, Meteor Shower.
Her other Broadway roles include Amalia Balash in She Loves Me (Tony and Drama Desk Award nominee), Gypsy Rose Lee in Gypsy opposite Patti LuPone (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Tony nomination, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards winner), Into the Woods (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations), In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play, The Wedding Singer, Nine (starring Antonio Banderas).
Other distinguished theatre performances include Perdita in The Winter’s Tale at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Anne in A Little Night Music at the L.A. Opera, Eileen in Wonderful Town, and Rosabella in The Most Happy Fella, both for City Center Encores!