- Ashley is most frequently recognized from her roles in two blockbuster feature films - Get Out and The Blind Side. As the lascivious Lisa Deets in Jordan Peele's Get Out, we see her opposite Daniel Kaluuya asking, "Is it true...is it better?...", as she gropes his bicep. In The Blind Side Ashley plays a considerably more conservative character as one of the ladies-who-lunch opposite Sandra Bullock - who asks, "Is this some sort of white guilt thing?"
Other recurring Guest Star roles in TV series include: the socialite, country-club wife C.C. Carroll in David Hudgins's Game of Silence (NBC); small-town convenience store manager Wynn Lovaas in Ray McKinnon's Rectify (Sundance Channel); and hard-hitting New York journalist Dianna Winchel in Tyler Perry's long-running series The Haves and the Have Nots (OWN).
Not always portraying grounded characters, Ashley rounds out her resume with some quirky, comedic characters. In Scary Movie 5 we can see her opposite Heather Locklear as a prima donna plotting her murder in the wings of a production of Swan Lake. BET's Let's Stay Together highlights Ashley's character in heels, silk negligee, and feather boa - flirting with Ronreaco Lee and Bert Belasco while admiring her elderly neighbor in his "tightie-whities". Finally - Michael Wesley Bay's award-winning mockumentary Rabbit Hunt remains Ashley's favorite comedy experience as a clueless - but lovable - art dealer.
Many TV viewers still remember Ashley from the national Restasis commercial as the woman with chronic-dry-eye whose "Thanks, Restasis" launched a thousand prescriptions.
Ashley has a BS in Psychology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville where she was part of their musical theater revue troupe The Original Cast.- IMDb mini biography by: RH
- Can cross one eye independent of the other.
- As a teenager won a contest to have dinner with The Bay City Rollers.
- Graduate of The Westminster Schools in Atlanta and Vanderbilt University.
- Before starting her acting career, she was in corporate sales for 20 years - selling cellular phones when they first launched in the United States and then selling an injection for cancer for a Chicago-based pharmaceutical company.
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