Ashley Judd
Ashley Judd
Date of Birth: April 19, 1968, Granada Hills, California

Birth Name:  Ashley Tyler Ciminella

Height:  5' 7"
A perpetual participant in the Delta 99 Most Desirable Women reaching as high as #11 in 2005. She also took home a Delta's Choice Award in 2004
for Dancing In her Underwear in the movie "Someone Like You". Ashley Judd is an at least 8th generation Eastern Kentuckian. She currently resides
on a farm in rural middle Tennessee and maintains close kinship and cultural ties with Appalachia. The daughter of country singer Naomi Judd and the
younger half-sister of singer Wynonna Judd. Her parents divorced in 1972, and her mother struggled to raise two girls on her nurse's salary. The girls
wore second-hand clothes, and the family moved often. They occasionally lived without electricity or indoor plumbing in remote, poverty-stricken areas
of Kentucky. When Judd was a teenager, her mother and sister's country music duet, The Judds, became popular and successful, and suddenly the
Judd family was rich. Ashley didn't sing, though, so she moved in with her father during the school year, and only accompanied her mother and sister
on tour during summers.

Judd wore braces as a child and had acne as a teen, but she was gorgeous enough to be a cheerleader in high school. She majored in French in
college, but after graduation, she moved to Hollywood, deciding to be an actress. She was quickly hired to play a junior member of the Enterprise
engineering staff on Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared in two episodes, briefly sparking with Ensign Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) as
they saved the ship's crew from an addictive computer game. After that she appeared on the sitcom Sisters for several years, playing Swoosie Kurtz's
spoiled daughter.

Her first movie role was as "wife of paint store owner" in 1992's Kuffs. She was originally offered a bigger role, but turned it down when she was told it
involved a topless scene. She starred in 1993's Ruby in Paradise, winning critical raves. Her better films include Heat, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya
Sisterhood, and De-Lovely, though she has also appeared in a number of lowball thrillers like Kiss the Girls and High Crimes.

In 2004, during a stay at the Ahwahnee hotel in Yosemite, Judd accidentally locked herself out of her cabin without her clothes, and with her face
covered in pimple cream. She wrapped herself in a yoga mat and went to the lobby to get a new key.
1991 Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV series) ... Ensign Robin Lefler
1991-1994 Sisters (TV series) ... Reed Halsey
1992 Kuffs ... Wife of Paint Store Owner
1992 Till Death Us Do Part (TV movie) ...Gwen Fox
1993 Ruby in Paradise ... Ruby Lee Gissing
1994 Natural Born Killers ... Grace Mulberry (scenes deleted)
1995 The Passion of Darkly Noon ... Callie
1995 Smoke ... Felicity
1995 Heat ... Charlene Shiherlis
1996 Normal Life ... Pam Anderson
1996 Norma Jean & Marilyn (TV movie) ...Norma Jean Dougherty
1996 A Time to Kill  ... Carla Brigance
1996 Dick Richards (short) ... Julie
1997 The Locusts ... Kitty
1997 Kiss the Girls ... Dr. Kate McTiernan
1998 Simon Birch ... Rebecca Wenteworth
1999 Our Friend, Martin  ... Mrs. Dale (voice)
1999 Eye of the Beholder ... Joanna Eris
1999 Double Jeopardy ... Libby
2000 Where the Heart Is ... Lexie Coop
2000 The Ryan Interview (TV movie) ... Fredericka Rose
2001 Someone Like You ... Jane Goodale
2002 High Crimes ... Claire Kubik
2002 Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ... Younger Vivi Abbott Walker
2002 Frida ... Tina Modotti
2004 Twisted ... Jessica Shepard
2004 De-Lovely ... Linda Porter
2006 Come Early Morning ... Lucy Fowler
2006 Bug ... Agnes White
2009 Helen ... Helen Leonard
2009 Crossing Over ... Denise Frankel
2010 Tooth Fairy ... Carly
Filmography
Awards
Delta's Choice Awards
2010 Delta 99 Most Desirable Women - #22
2009 Delta 99 Most Desirable Women - #74
2008 Delta 99 Most Desirable Women - #78
2007 Delta 99 Most Desirable Women - #62
2006 Delta 99 Most Desirable Women - #60
2005 Delta 99 Most Desirable Women - #11
2004 Delta - Special Category - Dancing in Underwear   
                                                              for:  Someone Like You
2004 Delta 99 Most Desirable Women - debut at #16

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
2000 - Blockbuster Entertainment Award          
                Favorite Actress - Suspense     for: Double Jeopardy

Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
1994 - CFCA Award        Emerging Actress  for: Ruby in Paradise

Independent Spirit Awards
1994 - Independent Spirit Award         Best Female Lead
                                                                      for: Ruby in Paradise

Lone Star Film & Television Awards
1998 - Lone Star Film & Television Award         
                       Best Supporting Actress    for: The Locusts