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It has taken more than a year and a half after its January 2020 Sundance Film Festival debut for the compelling true story of the battle for the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund to finally be released. It just may be that Netflix, which picked up the film there, was waiting for the 20th anniversary of the…

There’s at least one thing everyone should agree will be missed after tomorrow: Laura Benanti’s recurring appearances as Melania Trump on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Fortunately, the Tony-winning Broadway star provided a fitting goodbye last night with a send-off that hit an early high note for…

EXCLUSIVE: Tony Award winning actress Laura Benanti is joining the ensemble cast of HBO Max’s upcoming Gossip Girl sequel series. No word yet on character details, but the actress joins Gossip Girl cast Emily Alyn Lind, Tavi Gevinson, Whitney Peak, Eli Brown, Johnathan Fernandez, Jordan Alexander, Savannah Smith…

Tony Award-winning actor Laura Benanti has spent much of her quarantine launching an online movement where she offered to be an audience for those whose musicals were cancelled. The project, #SunshineSongs, is now the inspiration for a special for nascent streaming service HBO Max. The WarnerMedia-owned service has…

EXCLUSIVE: On March 13, two days after the coronavirus was declared a pandemic, Broadway’s Tony Award-winning Laura Benanti walked outside of her parents’ home in New Jersey – where the actress-singer was isolating with her husband and three-year-old daughter – and gave what might be the closest thing to a…

Tony Award-wining actress Laura Benanti just cheered up theater kids across the country: In a just-posted Instagram video message, the Sound of Music Live! and Nashville star is inviting high school students in canceled shows to post song videos and tag Benanti for what could be a much-viewed social media share. “Dark…

Gossip Girl alum Penn Badgley, who currently stars on the Netflix series, You, and Tony-winning actress Laura Benanti have been added to the cast of Here Today along with Anna Deavere Smith (Black-ish, The West Wing, Nurse Jackie) and Nyambi Nyambi (The Good Fight, Blindspotting). Emmy winners Billy Crystal and…

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Benanti has joined the cast of true-life biographical drama What Is Life Worth. The Michael Keaton/Stanley Tucci-starrer is directed by Sara Colangelo with production starting this month. The Black List script from Max Borenstein is based on Kenneth Feinberg's memoir. Feinberg, a powerful DC insider…

On Stephen Colbert’s Late Show, First Lady Melania Trump (Laura Benanti) had to deliver the First Couple’s annual Merry Christmas message by herself, when she got word her husband, President Donald Trump is running late “which is surprising because I’ve never seen him running before,” she acknowledges With Don Jr. and…

Tony Award winner Laura Benanti will take over as Eliza Doolittle in Broadway’s My Fair Lady, replacing the departing Lauren Ambrose. As reported exclusively by Deadline yesterday, Ambrose has been cast in Apple’s upcoming psychological thriller series from M. Night Shyamalan and British TV writer Tony…

President Donald Trump having taken time to attack CBS Late Show host Stephen Colbert at a rally in his home state may have driven more viewers to the show the next night to see what the attack was all about. If so, they saw First Lady Melania Trump doppelganger Laura Benanti stopping by to help everyone figure out…

UPDATED with video: The big story of Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address was the arrival of First Lady Melania Trump, who showed up without POTUS Donald and sporting a feminist message in the form of a white outfit like those favored by protesting Dem politicians at last year’s address to the joint session of…