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Īfter college Judd drove across country to Hollywood, where she studied with acting teacher Robert Carnegie at Playhouse West. She graduated from the University of Kentucky Honors Program and was nominated to Phi Beta Kappa, but did not graduate with her class. Judd spent a semester studying in France as part of her major. She joined the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma. At the University of Kentucky, she majored in French and minored in anthropology, art history, theater, and women's studies. She briefly tried modeling in Japan during a school break. Blazer High School ( Ashland, Kentucky), and Franklin High School in Tennessee. Judd attended 13 schools before college, including the Sayre School ( Lexington, Kentucky), Paul G. The following year, Ashley's mother Naomi returned with Ashley to Kentucky, where Judd lived for most of her childhood. Judd's parents divorced in 1972 when Ashley was four.

When Ashley was born, her mother was still a housewife she did not become well known as a singer until the early 1980s, after she had returned to Kentucky. Ashley's elder half-sister, Wynonna Judd, is also a country music singer.Īshley's paternal grandfather was of Sicilian (Italian) descent, and her paternal grandmother was a distant descendant of Mayflower pilgrim William Brewster. Her parents are Naomi Judd, who later became a country music singer and motivational speaker, and Michael Charles Ciminella, a marketing analyst for the horse racing industry.

Judd was born in 1968 in Granada Hills, Los Angeles.

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She starred as Rebecca Winstone in the 2012 television series Missing, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie. Judd has starred in films that have been well received and films that have been box office successes, including: Ruby in Paradise (1993), Heat (1995), Smoke (1995), Norma Jean & Marilyn (1996), A Time to Kill (1996), Kiss the Girls (1997), Double Jeopardy (1999), Where the Heart Is (2000), Frida (2002), High Crimes (2002), Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood (2002), De-Lovely (2004), Twisted (2004), Bug (2006), Dolphin Tale (2011), Olympus Has Fallen (2013), Divergent (2014), Dolphin Tale 2 (2014), Big Stone Gap (2014), Barry (2016) and A Dog's Way Home (2019). Her acting career has spanned more than three decades, and she has also become increasingly involved in global humanitarian efforts and political activism. She grew up in a family of performing artists: she is the daughter of the late country music singer Naomi Judd and the half-sister of country music singer Wynonna Judd. Ashley Judd (born Ashley Tyler Ciminella April 19, 1968) is an American actress.