- published: 10 Dec 2015
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Annaleigh Ashford (born June 25, 1985) is an American actress known for her Broadway credits in Wicked, Legally Blonde, and Hair.
Annaleigh Ashford was born Annaleigh Swanson in Denver, Colorado to Holli Swanson, a gym teacher. She studied at Denver's Kit Andre Performing Arts Center and acted and sang in numerous performances in her hometown until she graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in three years at the age of 16. She then attended Marymount Manhattan College, where she earned a degree in theater in another three years at the age of 19.
Ashford's professional career began at age nine, when she was cast as the lead in Ruthless at Theatre on Broadway. At fourteen, she was profiled as “The Teen to Watch” by the Rocky Mountain News. She performed in Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s Feeling Electric as Natalie, and joined Rent's Anthony Rapp at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
In 2004, while hanging around in NYC's Lower East Side club scene, Ashford met nightlife personality Lady Starlight, a local rock DJ and performance artist. Lady Starlight invited the budding starlet to dance at her 70's glitter rock party "Lady Starlight's English Disco", and christened her Hollywood Starr.
Oh no
Don't you dare
Girl, girl, girl, I'm warning you!
Ugh...
I think I have a crush
I can't!
I think I'm falling for him
Why not?
Women have been making bad choices since the beginning of time
Are you gonna be another one of mine?
Oh whoah
I used to think you were from outer space
Who's that bright-eyed guy in your place?
You're kind of cute when you're not so shy
Oh whoah
But I've been here before
Have I come back for more?
Another chapter in the history of wrong guys
You used to be so "Ehhhh"
A limp lackluster bore
But now you're changing into something I just can't ignore
Charlie, honestly
I've been hurt like this before
Is there really more to you
Than what I always thought?
How can you surprise me anymore?
Oh. Oh. Oh.
He's got a girlfriend, you flake. Why are they only nice when
they're unavailable?
Don't want to be another star-crossed lover.
We all know how that ends.
I'm better off without him
We're better off as friends.
But I've been here before
Have I come ask for more?
Another chapter in the history of wrong guys.
Yesterday no spark
No heart aching allure
But today I'm feeling
Something I just can't ignore.
Charlie, honestly
I've been hurt like this before
Oh. Oh. Oh
The history of wrong guys:
Chapter one - he's a bum
Two - he's not into you
Three - he's a sleaze
Four - loves the girl next door
Five - loves the boy next door
Six - don't love you no more
- makes you insecure
- makes you so unsure
- is so immature
- loves his mother more
- or...
... has a girlfriend named Nicola.
Charlie, honestly
I've been hurt like this before
I can see there's more to you
Than what I always thought
But I won't be burned anymore
Oh, oh, oh
Where you off to?
I've been exec-utized.