EXCLUSIVE: Annaleigh Ashford, who won the Tony in 2015 for You Can’t Take It With You and appeared in American Crime Story: Versace, has scored the lead role in Smart Blonde, a timely movie about about Oscar-winning actress Judy Holliday. Gene Kirkwood, a producer on the original Rocky who more recenlty produced HBO's…

Masters of Sex alumna Annaleigh Ashford has been tapped as the lead in ABC’s Three Rivers single-camera comedy pilot, from I Hate My Teenage Daughter creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer and ABC Studios. Written and executive produced by Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer and directed by Tristram Shapeero (The Mayo…

High School musical alumna Vanessa Hudgens and Masters of Sex actress Annaleigh Ashford have joined Jennifer Lopez and Leah Remini in the romantic comedy Second Act, from STXfilms. Peter Segal is attached to direct the pic, which STX and Lopez, put together, based on an idea by Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Justin…

Annaleigh Ashford (Sylvia, Masters Of Sex) is joining the cast of Fox’s TV remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show which will bow in the fall. She’ll play Columbia, the castle’s feisty live-in groupie played by Nell Campbell in 20th Century Fox's 1975 cult classic. Production on the two-hour event special begins…

Sylvia, the A.R. Gurney comedy in which Matthew Broderick plays a man in mid-life crisis who falls in love with an adoring talking dog, will end its Broadway run a few weeks earlier than planned. Blame middling reviews for the coming-of-middle-age play and poor ticket sales, despite strong upbeat notices for Tony…

EXCLUSIVE: Best known for her recurring role as Betty DiMello on Showtime’s Masters of Sex opposite Michael Sheen and Caitlin Fitzgerald, Annaleigh Ashford has signed with ICM Partners. Increasingly in demand as an actress, singer and comedian, Ashford won a Tony Award last year for her role as a flighty dancer in the…

Matthew Broderick plays Matthew Broderick and Annaleigh Ashford plays the dog he picks up in Central Park. They’re both pretty adorable in the Broadway premiere of A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, given an engaging, if somewhat attenuated, staging by Daniel Sullivan. Ashford is especially endearing the title role, a poodle mix…

The resurgence of interest in the work of playwright A.R. Gurney will continue in the fall with a revival of Sylvia starring competing Tony Award nominees Annaleigh Ashford (You Can’t Take It With You, Kinky Boots) and Julie White (Airline Highway). They’re two of the most gifted and in-demand comedians working…

CBS’ comedy lineup already features one Masters Of Sex standout in Mom star Allison Janney. Now it is looking to add another. Annaleigh Ashford has been cast as a regular in the CBS comedy pilot Super Clyde. The single-camera Greg Garcia project, from CBS TV Studios, follows Clyde (Charlie McDermott), a meek…