Ashley Williams Biography
Ashley Williams is an American actress most recognized for her roles on TV Land’s The Jim Gaffigan Show and NBC’s Good Morning Miami. Williams played Victoria on CBS’s How I Met Your Mother, starring Josh Radnor.
How old is Ashley Williams? – Age
She is 45 years old as of 12 November 2023. She was born in 1978 in Westchester County, New York, United States. Her real name is Ashley Churchill Williams.
Are Ashley Williams and Kimberly Williams sisters in real life? – Family – Education
Williams is the daughter of Linda Barbara and Gurney Williams III, a freelance health and scientific writer. She is the younger sister of actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley and the sister-in-law of country music artist Brad Paisley. Williams attended Rye High School in Rye, New York. She graduated from Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in May 2001.
Does Ashley Williams have any children? – How did Ashley Williams meet husband?
Williams married Neal Dodson, an indie film producer, on May 29, 2011. They have two boys. Williams miscarried during the summer of 2016, while she was two months pregnant. She collaborated with the Human Development Project to speak publicly about her experience, with the goal of decreasing the stigma of miscarriage and encouraging more women to communicate openly about it. Williams is a certified birth doula.
Ashley Williams Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Career
Ashley Williams made her acting debut as a non-speaking character in the 1993 drama Indian Summer, with her sister Kimberly. From 1994 to 1996, she played teenage Danielle Andropoulos in the soap series As the World Turns. Williams starred in the 2002–2004 television sitcom Good Morning, Miami. Since then, she’s appeared in episodes of Psych, How I Met Your Mother, E-Ring, Huff, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Side Order of Life, The Mentalist, Monk, C.S.I., Royal Pains, Saving Grace, Love Bites, The Protector, Retired at 35, and Warehouse 13.
Williams also appeared on American Dreams as singer Sandie Shaw, and she performed Shaw’s 1964 hit “(There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me” on American Bandstand. In 2007, she starred in the Off Broadway production Burleigh Grime$ and appeared as Victoria, a cupcake baker, in six episodes of the television series How I Met Your Mother, a character she returned in the show’s final seasons.
In 2010, she appeared in the made-for-TV Lifetime films Patricia Cornwell’s The Front and At Risk, which premiered on April 17, 2010.She also won an online straw poll done by the How I Met Your Mother production staff to determine which ex-girlfriend of Ted Mosby, the show’s main character, is the fan favorite.
Her character, Victoria, defeated Robin Scherbatsky 128-117. In 2011 and 2012, she played Claire in a film adaption of Something Borrowed, alongside Kate Hudson, John Krasinski, and her college friend Ginnifer Goodwin, and she also returned as Victoria on How I Met Your Mother.
She made her Broadway debut in John Grisham’s A Time To Kill as law student Ellen Roarke on September 28, 2013, with the show opening on October 20, 2013. She had previously performed at the Williamstown Theater Festival and served as an understudy for Rachel Weisz and Gretchen Mol in Paul Rudd’s world premiere Off-Broadway production of Neil LaBute’s play The Shape of Things. Throughout the production, she played both of the principal female parts several times.
In 2015 and 2016, Williams played a fictionalized version of comedian Jim Gaffigan’s real-life wife in The Jim Gaffigan Show on Comedy Central, a sitcom about a couple raising their five young children in a two-bedroom New York City apartment that also starred Michael Ian Black and Adam Goldberg.
She developed, filmed, and starred in the short film Meats, which follows a pregnant vegan who struggles with her unexpected desire for meat. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020.
Movies
♦ 2020 – Meats
♦ 2016 – Six LA Love Stories
♦ 2014 – Lovesick
♦ 2014 – A Most Violent Year
♦ 2013 – Sequin Raze
♦ 2012 – Hearing Voices
♦ 2011 – Scents and Sensibility
♦ 2011 – Margin Call
♦ 2011 – Something Borrowed
♦ 2010 – Heterosexuals
♦ 2009 – The Eight Percent
♦ 2007 – Numero Dos
♦ 2004 – The List
TV Shows
♦ 2023 – Notes of Autumn
♦ 2022 – Two Tickets to Paradise
♦ 2022 – Amber Brown
♦ 2022 – Five More Minutes: Moments Like These
♦ 2021 – The Good Doctor
♦ 2021 – Sister Swap: A Hometown Holiday
♦ 2021 – Sister Swap: Christmas in the City
♦ 2020 – Chris Watts: Confession of a Killer
♦ 2020 – Never Kiss a Man in a Christmas Sweater
♦ 2019 – Holiday Hearts
♦ 2019 – Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy
♦ 2018 – Instinct
♦ 2018 – FBI
♦ 2018 – Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa
♦ 2018 – Northern Lights of Christmas
♦ 2017 – Girls
♦ 2017 – Christmas in Evergreen
♦ 2016 – Love on a Limb
♦ 2015–2016 – The Jim Gaffigan Show
♦ 2015 – October Kiss
♦ 2014 – The Good Wife