| Ashley Williams | |
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| Born | Ashley Churchill Williams November 12, 1978 Westchester County, New York, U.S. |
| Years active | 1993 – present |
| Website | |
| http://www.ashleywilliams.net/ | |
Ashley Churchill Williams (born November 12, 1978) is an American television, movie and Broadway actress.
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Williams was born in Westchester County, New York. Her father, Gurney Williams, is a freelance medical journalist, and her mother, Linda, is a fundraiser for The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. She is the younger sister of Kimberly Williams-Paisley, who is also an actress, and sister-in-law to country music star Brad Paisley.[1]
Williams attended Rye High School in Rye, New York. She has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Boston University's theatre conservatory, having graduated in May 2001.[2]
Williams married producer Neal Dodson on May 29, 2011.
Williams made her big-screen acting debut in a non-speaking role in the 1993 ensemble comedy-drama Indian Summer, which also featured her sister.
Williams had a role in the television series Good Morning, Miami (2002–2004). Since then she has also appeared in episodes of Psych, How I Met Your Mother, E-Ring, Huff, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Side Order of Life, The Mentalist and Warehouse 13. In May 2003, she had a guest starring role on American Dreams, playing singer Sandie Shaw and performing Shaw's 1964 hit "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" on American Bandstand.
In 2006, she starred in the Off Broadway play Burleigh Grime$.[3][4] and appeared as Victoria, a cupcake baker, on six episodes of the television series How I Met Your Mother.
In 2010, she starred in the made-for-TV Lifetime movie, Patricia Cornwell's The Front, which premiered on the channel on April 17, 2010. She also won an on-line straw poll conducted by the How I Met Your Mother production staff as to which ex-girlfriend of Ted Mosby, the show's main character, is the fans' favorite. Her character, Victoria, won 128 to 117 over "Robin Scherbatsky", with a smattering of votes for other candidates.[5]
In 2011, she played the role of Claire in a film adaptation of Something Borrowed and reprised her role as Victoria on How I Met Your Mother.