A Tony-winning Broadway veteran equally at home in movies and television, Laura Benanti is the mother of three very troubled sons in Friday’s horror outing, “The Shade.”

The titular character is one mighty ugly, super scary nightmare come to life – and Benanti, 45, believes they’re around.

“Weirdly, I’m going to Indianapolis this fall with my one-woman show. I did a show there one time,” she recalled in a phone interview, “and we were staying at a very old hotel and I was in a room that was very clearly haunted by, like, a demonic energy.

“I was laying in bed and it felt like a snake coming up the sheets. I turned the lights on and my instinct was to say, ‘I’m not afraid of you.’

“But then I slept with the light on the rest of the night. And I did not get any sleep. The next day, it was the hotel that the performance space was, so we were doing our show and the piano broke. Like the keys of the piano broke! With Todd, my pianist, we had five more songs to go — and he couldn’t play the piano.

“I never even knew that could happen!”

Benanti has been in several long runs on Broadway but who could’ve ever guessed one of the longest would be her Melania Trump impersonation on Stephen Colbert’s show.

It began in 2016 with Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign and continues, no end in sight.

“It’s a long-running character but how we play her has evolved. At first it was straightforward, more like a genuine impression. Whereas now it’s become way more wildly comedic. Somewhat ridiculous by design.”

Despite decades of serious, substantive work, could it be her most recognized role?

“I think that’s right. It’s the thing that most people have seen. Theater is ephemeral. You can only fit 1,100 people into the theater at one time.

“So anytime you have millions of eyeballs on you versus thousands, that’s going to be, just by pure math, the thing that people remember.

“I’ve done so much TV and film, but the characters I play are always different. I’m a character actress, I play a lot of different roles in very different ways. And I look very different.

“Whereas this Melania Trump character — it’s so outlandish and so funny, and so well seen, including online after the fact, that it makes sense to me that it would be the thing that sticks out to people the most.”

Has she heard from Melania, maybe a note?

“Melania? I have never heard from her, and I don’t think I will.”

“The Shade” opens Sept. 20