Laura Osnes is an American stage and TV actress. The 33-year-old rose to fame as she competed on the reality TV show, Grease: You’re the One that I Want! as part of the nation-wide search for the roles of Sandy and Danny in the Broadway revival of Grease. After winning the competition and being donned ‘Smalltown Sandy,’ Laura played Sandy on Broadway for a year, through July 2008. Post-Grease, Laura performed in starred in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Broadway: Three Generations, a three-act evening featuring condensed versions of Girl Crazy, Bye Bye Birdie, and Side Show. Laura went on to star in South Pacific, Bonnie & Clyde and Anything Goes, before taking on the lead role as Cinderella in a modernized version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, Cinderella, in 2012. Laura was nominated for a Tony Award for the role and performed through 2014. Laura’s most recent Broadway appearance was in the original show Banstand, that opened in April 2017 and closed five months later.
Now, the actress has taken her talent back to TV, starring in her first TV film, In the Key of Love, on the Hallmark Channel. Click through for EXCLUSIVE portraits of Laura!