- Born
- Birth nameAshley Tyler Ciminella
- Nicknames
- Ash
- Sweet Pea
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- American actress and political activist Ashley Judd was born Ashley Tyler Ciminella on April 19, 1968, in Granada Hills, California. She grew up in a family of successful performing artists as the daughter of country music singer Naomi Judd and the sister of Wynonna Judd. While she is best known for an ongoing acting career spanning more than two decades, she has increasingly become involved in global humanitarian efforts and political activism.- IMDb mini biography by: scaryofmonsters
- SpouseDario Franchitti(December 12, 2001 - 2013) (divorced)
- ChildrenNo Children
- ParentsMichael Charles Ciminella
- RelativesWynonna Judd(Half Sibling)
- Natural brunette hair
- Turned down a larger role in Kuffs (1992) because she was asked to do nude scenes. She responded, "My mother worked too hard for me to take my clothes off in my first movie."
- First celebrity to go public with her allegations of sexual misconduct against producer Harvey Weinstein, as reported by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey in the New York Times (October 5, 2017).
- Her first screen kiss was with Wil Wheaton on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).
- Speaks French fluently.
- On the television show Who Do You Think You Are? (2010), Ashley wanted to learn more about her father's side of the family. She discovered that her third great-grandfather was a union soldier in the Civil War who was taken prisoner twice and had his leg cut off after a battlefield injury. On another branch of her father's family, she discovered that she descends from a man who was on the Mayflower who had been imprisoned in England.
- It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.
- [on confronting sexual harassment] We need to formalize the whisper network. It's an ingenious way that we've tried to keep ourselves safe. All those voices can be amplified. That's my advice to women. That, and if something feels wrong, it is wrong - and its wrong by my definition and not necessarily someone else's.
- As far as I'm concerned, most rap and hip-hop music - with its rape culture and insanely abusive lyrics and depictions of girls and women as 'ho's' - is the contemporary soundtrack of misogyny. [explaining her perspective on hip hop, in her book All That Is Bitter & Sweet]
- Someone Like You (2001) - $4,000,000
- Double Jeopardy (1999) - $1,000,000
- Eye of the Beholder (2000) - $1,000,000
- Kiss the Girls (1997) - $450,000
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