She's conquered Broadway, earned laughs on late-night, and, most recently, joined the new generation of Manhattan's elite. Now, Laura Benanti courts awards buzz in Netflix's Worth.
seven times a week. “And you know, I had a two-year-old,” she adds. “I was getting home at eleven o’clock at night, and sometimes I’d be picked up at four in the morning. Or I’d work till four in the morning and then have to do a show the next day.”
Those New Jersey roots and multiple decades living in New York underscored the “tremendous honor” it was for Benanti to play the wife of a fallen firefighter, left to take care of three kids on her own. “As a New Yorker and a person who was in New York on 9/11 and a New Jersey person, when I finally did go home to my parents’ house like, two weeks after 9/11, [I saw] all the cars that were still at the park and ride that would never be retrieved,” she says.
It’s not surprising that since that time, motherhood has become central to Benanti’s art. “I draw from that for every part, whether it’s a mom or not,” she says. “It’s the most evocative part of my life.” And while Kiki might not be the most engaged or effective parent to daughter Audrey , Benanti extends the same grace to Kiki that she extended to Karen from—even though if the fictional Kiki and Karen were to somehow cross paths in New York “I don’t know if Kiki would even see her.
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