Elizabeth Ashley Biography
Elizabeth Ashley is an American stage, film, and television actor recognised for portraying colourful and powerful characters. She has also acted in a few films, making her big-screen debut in 1964 with the drama picture ‘The Carpetbaggers.’
Elizabeth Ashley Age
Elizabeth was born Elizabeth Ann Cole, on born August 30, 1939, in Florida, United States of America, she is 84 years old as of August 2023.
Elizabeth Ashley Height
Ann stands at a height of 5′ 5″ (1.65 m), tall.
Elizabeth Ashley Family
Cole was born and raised, in Florida, to Lucille and Arthur Kingman Cole. Arthur, her father, was a music teacher. She was raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Her family was the stereotypical Gothic Southern family. Elizabeth was dyslexic and the only child of her parents.
Elizabeth Ashley Married- Husband
Ashley has been married three times and divorced three times. James Farentino and George Peppard, both actors, were her first and second husbands. Christian, the couple’s son, was born. Banacek, his television series, was cancelled due to her divorce from Peppard. In 1975, Elizabeth got married a third time, to James McCarthy. The marriage ended in 1981.
Elizabeth Ashley Career
Ashley earned a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Take Her, She’s Mine, and she also played Corie in Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park (1963) and Maggie in Tennessee Williams’ Cat in a Hot Tin Roof (1974). Both performances earned her Tony nominations. She starred on Broadway as Dr. Livingstone in Agnes of God (1982) and as Mattie Fae in August: Osage County during its initial Broadway run. Over the course of five decades, she has appeared in significant movie pictures, including early appearances in The Carpetbaggers (1964), Ship of Fools (1965), and The Third Day (1965).
She first appeared alongside Burt Reynolds in a 1969 season episode of Love, American Style, then in the 1981 film Paternity, as a guest star in his television series B.L. Stryker in 1989, and finally as Aunt Frieda Evans in his final television series, Evening Shade, from 1990 to 1994. Ashley played Kate in Sandburg’s Lincoln, a six-part drama that aired on NBC in the mid-1970s. 1 926 Her other television performances include The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, a 1987 miniseries, and guest roles in Ben Casey, Route 66, Sam Benedict, Stoney Burke, The Six Million Dollar Man, Family, Miami Vice, Caroline in the City, Mission: Impossible, and Murder, She Wrote.Treme, an HBO series, featured her in 14 episodes. Ashley’s autobiography Actress: Postcards from the Road was published in a hardcover edition on June 1, 1978 by M. Evans & Co (now part of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group). A paperback publication followed on October 12, 1979 through Fawcett Publications.
Elizabeth Ashley Net Worth
She has an estimated net Worth of 5 million dollars.
Elizabeth Ashley Movies and TV Shows
2020 The Bold Type
2020 Better Things
2019–present Russian Doll
2015 Understudies
2010–2013 Treme
1999 Homicide: Life on the Street
1999 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1998 Hey Arnold!
1997 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
1996 Dave’s World
1996 The Big Easy
1996 All My Children
1996 Hey Arnold!
1996–97 Caroline in the City
1995 The Buccaneers
1995 Burke’s Law
1995 Women of the House
1995 Murder, She Wrote
1995 Touched by an Angel
1994 In the Heat of the Night
1994 Law & Order
1993 The Larry Sanders Show
1993 Harnessing Peacocks
1992 In the Best Interest of the Children
1991 Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
1991 Love and Curses… And All That Jazz
1990 Blue Bayou
1990 Another World