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b'Tony Award-winner LAURA BENANTI can now be seen in the Samantha Bee and Jason Jones TBS comedy, The Detour. Additional TV credits include Supergirl, Nashville, guest-starring as songbird Sadie Stone; The Good Wife; and Showtime\\u2019s Nurse Jackie.\\nMost recently, Laura co-starred along side Amy Schumer and Keegan Michael Key in Steve Martin\\u2019s hit Broadway play, Meteor Shower.\\nIn 2016, Laura completed her Tony nominated role (and 5th nomination) as Amalia Balash in the hit Broadway Musical, She Loves Me. Laura also received Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Drama Desk Award nominations for this role.\\nIn addition to television work and her critically acclaimed performance as Elsa Schrader in NBC\\u2019s The Sound of Music LIVE, Ms. Benanti is a highly celebrated, stage actress who took Broadway by storm at the age of 18.\\nShe received a Drama Desk award, Outer Critics Circle Award and a Tony Award Nomination for her starring role in the Broadway production of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown for Lincoln Center where she also starred in the Broadway production of Sarah Ruhl\\u2019s In the Next Room or The Vibrator Play. Ms. Benanti earned the 2008 Tony Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award for her revelatory portrayal of Gypsy Rose Lee in Gypsy opposite Patti LuPone and directed by Arthur Laurents. Her other Broadway roles include The Wedding Singer, Nine, starring Antonio Banderas, her Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award-nominated performance of Cinderella in Stephen Sondheim\\u2019s Into the Woods and her sultry Tony nominated turn in Swing! Ms. Benanti made her Broadway debut as Maria in The Sound of Music opposite Richard Chamberlain.\\nOther distinguished theater performances include the Public Theater\\u2019s production of Christopher Durang\\u2019s Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them, Perdita in The Winter\\u2019s Tale at the Williamstown Theatre Festival opposite Kate Burton, Anne in A Little Night Music at the L.A. Opera opposite Victor Garber, Eileen in Wonderful Town opposite Donna Murphy and most recently her portrayal of Rosabella in the Most Happy Fella, both for City Center Encores! Ms. Benanti completed a week-long engagement at the popular New York cabaret club, 54 Below, for which The New York Times hailed her as a \\u201csupremely confident\\u201d performer whose \\u201cbright, full soprano, with its semioperatic heft, can go almost anywhere.\\u201d In September 2013, she released her debut album, \\u201cIn Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention: Live at 54 Below\\u201d on Broadway Records to ecstatic reviews.\\nLaura currently performs her concerts in venues around the country and even recently performed for the President and First Lady of the United States at both the Fords Gala and the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington DC.\\nIn 2014, she joined the cast of ABC\\u2019s hit series \\u201cNashville\\u201d guest-starring as songbird Sadie Stone. Laura also appeared in recurring roles on CBS\\u2019s \\u201cThe Good Wife\\u201d and HBO\\u2019s \\u201cNurse Jackie.\\u201d\\nLaura\\u2019s past television credits include a starring role in the NBC series \\u201cThe Playboy Club\\u201d and \\u201cGo On\\u201d opposite Matthew Perry. She also starred in the F/X original series \\u201cStarved\\u201d. Ms. Benanti recurred on\\xa0 \\u201cLaw and Order: SVU,\\u201d \\u201cRoyal Pains,\\u201d and \\u201cEli Stone.\\u201d and had appearances on \\u201cThe Big C\\u201d and \\u201cElementary\\u201d.\\nShe currently resides in Manhattan with her husband Patrick and daughter Ella.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'