Ashley Dyke
- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
Actress Ashley Dyke is best known for her roles as Anna in Steve
McQueen's Academy Award winning film "12 Years A Slave", and as Stacey in John Krasinski's "The Hollars". Ashley was
raised in Fairfax, Virginia. She is the daughter of two lawyers, Ellen
Dyke and the Honorable James W. Dyke, Jr., the first African-American
Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Virginia and immediate
past Chairman of the Greater Washington Board of Trade. Her mother is
Jewish of Hungarian and Polish decent and was born and raised in New
York City. Her father is an African-American Christian and was raised
in Maryland and Virginia. They met at Howard University School of Law
from which they received their law degrees. Ashley is the third of four
children
She went to Fairfax High School where she was highly involved in
student government and was an All American Athlete. She went on to get
her degree in theater from the prestigious University of Virginia, and
also studied at the celebrated New York University Tisch School of the
Arts, where she acquired her first taste of television as a series
regular on a campus produced show called "Stratagem." She also
performed in several productions while in college including a lead role
in "The Vagina Monologues".
Ashley moved to Los Angeles to further her career in film and
television and hasn't looked back since. She continues to work in
theater landing lead roles at theaters including, Second City, Acme
Theater, and La Mirada Theater For the Performing Arts. Building a
solid career in Hollywood in both comedy and drama. Ashley most
recently guest starred on Robin Williams show on CBS "The Crazy Ones",
the series finale of Stephen Merchant's HBO show "Hello Ladies", CBS's
season finale of "CSI: NY," NBC's "The Cape", and the CW's "90210."
Ashley has successfully portrayed a wide range of characters, a young
tormented slave in "12 Years A Slave", the wildly outrageous Gigi in
"Bud'z House", a young girl struggling in a half-way house in the
thriller "New Hope Manor"; on stage, as a young woman surviving a
concentration camp in "I Never Saw Another Butterfly.", and as a young
black woman living in the segregated 1940"s Ohio, in the theater
production of Toni Morrison's, "The Bluest Eye".
McQueen's Academy Award winning film "12 Years A Slave", and as Stacey in John Krasinski's "The Hollars". Ashley was
raised in Fairfax, Virginia. She is the daughter of two lawyers, Ellen
Dyke and the Honorable James W. Dyke, Jr., the first African-American
Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Virginia and immediate
past Chairman of the Greater Washington Board of Trade. Her mother is
Jewish of Hungarian and Polish decent and was born and raised in New
York City. Her father is an African-American Christian and was raised
in Maryland and Virginia. They met at Howard University School of Law
from which they received their law degrees. Ashley is the third of four
children
She went to Fairfax High School where she was highly involved in
student government and was an All American Athlete. She went on to get
her degree in theater from the prestigious University of Virginia, and
also studied at the celebrated New York University Tisch School of the
Arts, where she acquired her first taste of television as a series
regular on a campus produced show called "Stratagem." She also
performed in several productions while in college including a lead role
in "The Vagina Monologues".
Ashley moved to Los Angeles to further her career in film and
television and hasn't looked back since. She continues to work in
theater landing lead roles at theaters including, Second City, Acme
Theater, and La Mirada Theater For the Performing Arts. Building a
solid career in Hollywood in both comedy and drama. Ashley most
recently guest starred on Robin Williams show on CBS "The Crazy Ones",
the series finale of Stephen Merchant's HBO show "Hello Ladies", CBS's
season finale of "CSI: NY," NBC's "The Cape", and the CW's "90210."
Ashley has successfully portrayed a wide range of characters, a young
tormented slave in "12 Years A Slave", the wildly outrageous Gigi in
"Bud'z House", a young girl struggling in a half-way house in the
thriller "New Hope Manor"; on stage, as a young woman surviving a
concentration camp in "I Never Saw Another Butterfly.", and as a young
black woman living in the segregated 1940"s Ohio, in the theater
production of Toni Morrison's, "The Bluest Eye".