Ashley Judd Biography
Ashley Judd is an American actress whose acting career has lasted over three decades, and she has become deeply involved in global humanitarian endeavors and political activity.
How old is Ashley Judd? – Age
She is 56 years old as of April 19 2024. She was born in 1968 in Granada Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Ashley Judd Family
Her parents are Naomi Judd, a former country music singer and motivational speaker, and Michael Charles Ciminella, a horse racing marketing specialist. Wynonna Judd, Ashley’s elder half-sister, is also a country singer. Ashley’s paternal grandpa was of Sicilian (Italian) ancestry, while her paternal grandmother was a distant descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster. Judd’s mother was a homemaker at the time of her birth. Judd’s parents split in 1972, when she was four. The following year, Judd’s mother Naomi and Ashley returned to Kentucky, where Judd had spent much of her youth.
Ashley Judd Education
Judd attended 13 schools before to college, including Sayre School (Lexington, Kentucky), Paul G. Blazer High School (Ashland, Kentucky), and Franklin High School in Tennessee. During a school break, she temporarily tried her hand at modeling in Japan. She studied French at the University of Kentucky, with minors in anthropology, art history, drama, and women’s studies. She joined the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma. Judd spent a semester studying in France as part of her studies. She graduated from the University of Kentucky Honors Program and was nominated for Phi Beta Kappa.
Judd graduated from the University of Kentucky with a BA in May 2007. On May 9, 2009, she received an honorary DHL degree from Union College in Barbourville, Kentucky. She then pursued postgraduate studies, receiving a mid-career MPA degree from Harvard Kennedy School in 2010. In August 2016, Judd enrolled at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy to pursue a PhD in Public Policy. She took a medical leave of absence two months later because she was experiencing severe migraines.
Who is Ashley Judd married to now? – Husband
In December 1999, Judd proposed to Dario Franchitti, a Scottish racing driver who competed in Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART). They got married in December 2001 at Skibo Castle in Scotland. They got divorced in 2013.
Did Ashley Judd have a child?
The coule had no children together. She said that it’s unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.
Ashley Judd Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $14 million.
Ashley Judd Height
She stands at a height of 5 feet 5¾ inches (1.67 m).
Ashley Judd Career
Beginning in 1991, Judd showed up as Ensign Robin Lefler, a Starfleet official, in two episodes of Star Trip: The Future, “Darmok” and “The Game”. From 1991 to 1994, she played a common part as Reed, the girl of Alex (Swoosie Kurtz), on the NBC show Sisters.
She made her component film debut with a little job in 1992’s Kuffs. In 1993, she was projected in her initially featuring pretending the title character in Victor Nuñez’s Ruby in Heaven. This won the Sundance Film Celebration Terrific Jury Prize. Accepting that this job would shape the remainder of her profession, Judd was incredibly anxious before the tryout, almost getting into an auto collision in transit.
Oliver Stone, who had seen Judd in Nuñez’s film, cast her in Regular Conceived Executioners, however her scenes were cut from the adaptation of the film delivered dramatically. The next year, she acquired basic praise for her job as Harvey Keitel’s alienated little girl in Wayne Wang’s Smoke and as Val Kilmer’s significant other in Michael Mann’s Intensity. That very year she assumed the part of Callie in Philip Ridley’s dull grown-up fantasy The Energy of Obscurely Early afternoon.
In 1996, she co-featured with Mira Sorvino as Marilyn Monroe in Norma Jean and Marilyn, where she reproduced the photograph go for the pin-up for the main issue of Playboy. That very year she played a supporting part in the spine chiller film An Opportunity to Kill. It got positive surveys and was a significant film industry achievement. Toward the finish of the 1990s, Judd had made extensive progress as a main entertainer, having lead jobs in extra spine chillers that performed well in the cinema world, including Kiss the Young ladies (1997) and Twofold Risk (1999).
In the mid 2000s she featured in Where the Heart Is (2000), Somebody Like You (2001), and Horrific acts (2002). These were moderate film industry triumphs. Her film Divine Privileged insights of the Ya Sisterhood (2002) performed well. In 2002 she acted in the widely praised film Frida.
Judd assumed the part of Maggie the Feline in the 2003 Broadway restoration of Tennessee Williams’ Bundle of nerves. In 2004 she got acclaim and a Brilliant Globe selection for Best Entertainer, for her presentation in De-Exquisite, inverse Kevin Kline, who played Cole Doorman. She additionally featured in Curved (2004). This was broadly panned.
In 2010, Judd was Janet Tamaro’s unique decision for the job of Analyst Jane Rizzoli in the television series Rizzoli and Isles yet she declined. Angie Harmon played the job. In 2011, Judd co-featured with Patrick Dempsey in the film Flypaper. In 2012, she featured as Rebecca Winstone on the ABC series Missing. In 2014, she showed up as Natalie Earlier in Different, which she repeated in the 2015 continuation Guerilla.
In 2014, Judd was the storyteller of the narrative movie about Turkish minister Fethullah Gülen, Love Is an Action word, coordinated by Terry Spencer Hesser. The next year she turned into the primary lady to portray the opening for the broadcast of the Kentucky Derby.
Ashley Judd Political Views
Ashley has participated in a number of political activities, including supporting Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008 and criticizing Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for supporting aerial wolf hunts. She signed the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s petition urging Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear to strictly enforce Kentucky’s Humane Shelter Law in order to protect the state’s homeless animals. Judd was named Global Ambassador for YouthAIDS, an education and prevention program run by the worldwide NGO Population Services worldwide (PSI) that promotes AIDS prevention and treatment. She was named the fourth annual USA Today Hollywood Hero in 2009. Judd has also campaigned extensively for Democratic politicians, including President Barack Obama, in key swing states.
In 2010, she traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the Enough Project to raise awareness about conflict minerals, which are fueling sexual violence. She wrote an op-ed titled “Ashley Judd: Electronics fuel unspeakable violence” and another titled “Costs of Convenience” about the link between modern technology and mining camps.
Judd represented Tennessee as a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention and pondered returning to Kentucky to challenge Senator Mitch McConnell in 2014. However, she opted not to run for Senate in 2013, claiming a desire to prioritize her family. She later endorsed Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Kentucky Secretary of State.
Ashley Judd Movies
♦ 2022 – She Said
♦ 2022 – My Name is Andrea
♦ 2019 – A Dog’s Way Home
♦ 2017 – Trafficked
♦ 2016 – The Divergent Series: Allegiant
♦ 2016 – Barry
♦ 2016 – Good Kids
♦ 2015 – The Divergent Series: Insurgent
♦ 2014 – Divergent
♦ 2014 – The Identical
♦ 2014 – Dolphin Tale 2
♦ 2014 – Big Stone Gap
♦ 2013 – Olympus Has Fallen
♦ 2011 – Dolphin Tale
♦ 2011 – Flypaper
♦ 2010 – Tooth Fairy
♦ 2009 – Helen
♦ 2009 – Crossing Over
♦ 2006 – Come Early Morning
♦ 2006 – Bug
♦ 2004 – De-Lovely
♦ 2004 – Twisted
♦ 2002 – Frida
♦ 2002 – Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
♦ 2002 – High Crimes
♦ 2001 – Someone Like You
♦ 2000 – Where the Heart Is
♦ 1999 – Double Jeopardy
Ashley Judd TV Shows
♦ 2022 – Naomi Judd: A River of Time Celebration
♦ 2017–2019 – Berlin Station
♦ 2017 – Twin Peaks
♦ 2013 – Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
♦ 2012 – Missing
♦ 1996 – Norma Jean & Marilyn
♦ 1994 – Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge
♦ 1994 – Space Ghost Coast to Coast
♦ 1991–1994 – Sisters
♦ 1991 – Star Trek: The Next Generation