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Ashley Williams Profile |
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Birth Date: November 12, 1978
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Birth Place: Westchester County, New York, USA
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Birth Name: Ashley Williams
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Height: 5'7"
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Biography |
Ashley Williams is an American actress. Her father is a
freelance medical journalist and her mother is a fundraiser
for The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
She is the younger sister of Kimberly Williams-Paisley, also
an actress.
Williams attended Rye High School in Rye, New York. She has
a bachelor of fine arts degree from Boston University’s
theatre conservatory, having graduated in May, 2001.
She made her big screen acting debut alongside her sister in
the 1993 ensemble comedy-drama Indian Summer.
Williams had a role in the television series Good Morning,
Miami (2002–2004). Since then she has also appeared in
episodes of How I Met Your Mother, E-Ring, Huff, Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit and Side Order of Life. In May
2003, she had a guest starring role on American Dreams,
playing singer Sandie Shaw and performing Shaw's 1964 hit
"(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" on American
Bandstand.
In 2006, she starred in the play Burleigh Grime$. |
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Other
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Sister of Kimberly Williams-Paisley.
Her father is a freelance medical journalist and her mother
is a fund-raiser for the Michael J. Fox Parkinson's Research
Foundation.
Enjoys writing, doing yoga, running and hiking.
Appears at many celebrity charity fund-raisers (especially
for AIDS).
Has been writing diaries since she was little (and has so
far filled up 37 of them!)
Was named the fall "It" girl of 2002.
Attended Rye High School in Rye, New York.
Sister-in-law of country music star Brad Paisley.
Studied at Boston University's renowned School of Theatre
Arts
Her older brother, Jay Williams, is a Firefighter and
Paramedic in Los Angeles County.
She lived in New York City for about a year before moving to
Los Angeles to work on "Good Morning, Miami" (2002).
Lived in an apartment on Brighton Avenue in Allston, MA
during her senior year. Graduated from Boston University May
2001. |
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since July 30, 2008