Ashley Rickards Biography
Ashley Rickards is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Jenna Hamilton in MTV’s comedy-drama series Awkward. In the 2011 independent drama film ‘Fly Away,’ she played a severely autistic girl named Mandy.
Ashley Rickards Age
She was born Ashley Nicole Richards on May 4, 1992, in Sarasota, Florida, United States. Nicole is 31 years old as of May 2023.
Ashley Rickards Height
Nicole stands at a height of 5’4″ (163 cm) tall.
Ashley Rickards Parents
She was raised by her parents, but she has not provided any information about her siblings or family in general. It is unknown whether she had siblings, and the identity of her father and mother is still unknown.
Ashley Rickards Relationship
She supposedly got engaged to a guitarist called Tom Cole in 2014, who was dissatisfied with her personal moments with her male co-stars on ‘Awkward.’ They eventually ended their relationship. Ashley Rickards was dating actor Casey King in 2015.
Ashley Rickards Career
Ashley Rickards plays Janet in writer-director Chelsea Vance’s short film ‘Web Journal Now’ in 2006. ‘Everybody Hates Chris,’ ‘CSI: NY,’ ‘Zoey 101,’ ‘Ugly Betty,’ ‘Entourage,’ and ‘Outlaw’ were among the TV shows she appeared in during the next few years. She made an appearance in the 2007 telefilm ‘American Family,’ alongside Rachel Spectre and Michelle Barkowski. She appeared in the short film ‘Spoonfed’ that year. During this time, even though she was consistently hired, she was not allowed to work more than a certain number of hours due to child labour restrictions in the United States. Rickards made her film debut in the action thriller ‘Gamer’ in 2009. In her career, she has participated in three music videos: In 2006, The Fray’s ‘How to Save a Life’ was released.
She appeared in 19 episodes of The WB (later The CW) teen drama series ‘One Tree Hill’ between 2008 and 2009 as the runaway foster girl Samantha “Sam” Walker. She had never heard of the show before auditioning for it. Rickards claims that her time on ‘One Tree Hill’ was tremendously beneficial to her, teaching her all she knows about the industry, from acting skills to different ways to shoot a scene. She auditioned for numerous shows in 2009. She was slated to appear in the 2010 film ‘Dirty Girl,’ but that fell through. She appeared in an episode of the NBC legal drama ‘Outlaw’ in 2010.
Rickards was eventually cast in both projects. ‘Awkward’ ran on MTV for five seasons, from July 19, 2011, to May 24, 2016. She played Mandy, a teenage girl with severe autism, in Janet Grillo’s ‘Fly Away’ (2011). Rickards’ performance in the film, as well as the film itself, garnered great reviews, with Rex Reed of ‘The New York Observer’ claiming that she deserved an Oscar nomination. Since then, she has acted in films such as ‘Struck by Lightning’ (2012), ‘Sassy Pants’ (2012), ‘At the Devil’s Door’ (2014), ‘A Haunted House 2’ (2014), ‘Behaving Badly’ (2014), ‘The Outcasts’ (2017), and ‘Pretty Little Stalkers’ (2018). She portrayed supervillain Rosalind Dillon / Top in two episodes of The CW’s ‘The Flash’ (2016-17).
Rickards is now appearing in the Vimeo web series ‘ctrl alt delete’ as A’sha. She was a founding member of the Project Futures Somaly Mam Foundation, which works to end human trafficking and sexual slavery in Southeast Asia. She released a self-help book titled ‘A Real Guide to Getting It Together Once and For All’ in March 2015 through Harlequin Publishers. She talked frankly about her eating condition and her battle to overcome it in the book.
Ashley Rickards’s Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 2.5 million dollars.