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Annaleigh Ashford

Highest Rated: 96% John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch (2019)

Lowest Rated: 40% Hold Your Breath (2024)

Birthday: Jun 25, 1985

Birthplace: Denver, Colorado, USA

Annaleigh Ashford was an American Broadway theater and television actress who was best known for her role as Betty DiMello on the Showtime period drama "Masters of Sex" (Showtime, 2013- ). Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Ashford grew up with a passion for performance. After her gym teacher mother tried and failed to encourage young Annaleigh to play sports, Ashford started taking dance and acting classes at Kit Andrée's Dance and Performing Arts Center in her hometown. It did not take long for Ashford to fall in love with performing. She began appearing in plays all throughout grade school and high school, and by the time college rolled around, decided to leave Denver for New York City. It was while living in the Big Apple that Ashford soon enrolled in Marymount Manhattan College, where she studied theater. She graduated from the four year college in just three years, and was soon auditioning for theatrical roles on Broadway. Her first big break came when she was cast on the first national tour of the hit Broadway musical "Wicked." Ashford traveled the country as a castmember on the show, before making her Broadway debut in 2007 in the musical "Legally Blonde." The musical was a smash success and over the next few years Ashford appeared in numerous additional Broadway musicals. It was also around this time that Ashford started landing small roles in films like "Sex and the City" (2008) and "Rachel Getting Married" (2008). She continued nabbing parts throughout the early 2010s, most notably voicing several roles in the hit Disney animated film "Frozen" (2013), as well as appearing in the Chris Rock comedy "Top Five" (2014). In 2013 Ashford landed her breakout role on the Showtime period drama "Masters of Sex," playing young prostitute Betty DiMello.

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Highest rated movies

96% 76% John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
Watchlist
94% 83% Bad Education Watchlist 80% 77% Late Night Watchlist 66% 43% Unicorn Store Watchlist 44% 44% Second Act Watchlist 40% 48% Hold Your Breath Watchlist 44% Stereotypically You Watchlist
Love on the Run
Watchlist
94% American Reject Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
40% 48% Hold Your Breath Esther Smith (Character) - 2024
No Score Yet 94% American Reject Unknown (Character) - 2022
94% 83% Bad Education Debra Rigano (Character) - 2019
80% 77% Late Night Mimi Mismatch (Character) $15.5M 2019
96% 76% John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch Guest - 2019
44% 44% Second Act Hildy Ostrander (Character) $39.2M 2018
66% 43% Unicorn Store Crystal (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet 44% Stereotypically You Anne (Character) - 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Love on the Run Liza (Character) - 2016

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen Guest 2021 2023-2024
No Score Yet 28% The Drew Barrymore Show Guest 2020-2021 2024
No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest 2023
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2017 2022-2023
71% 67% Welcome to Chippendales Irene Banerjee (Character) 2022-2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Talk Guest 2020 2022
No Score Yet 18% The Late Late Show With James Corden Guest 2021-2022
No Score Yet 55% The Kelly Clarkson Show Guest 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Secret Celebrity Renovation Guest 2022
85% 57% B Positive Gina (Character) 2020-2022
84% 90% American Crime Story Paula Jones (Character) 2021
No Score Yet 50% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2021
96% 86% Evil Bridget Farrell (Guest Star) 2019
97% 78% Younger Shelly Rozansky (Guest Star) 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Live From Lincoln Center Music Performer 2019
59% 87% God Friended Me Fliss (Guest Star) 2018-2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Harry Guest 2017
84% 85% Masters of Sex Betty DiMello (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star)
2013-2016
No Score Yet 91% The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson Guest 2014
78% 83% Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Lindsay Anderson (Guest Star) 2013