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Ashley Tyler Ciminella (born April 19, 1968 in Granada Hills, California) is an American actress.

Her father is Michael Ciminella, a marketing analyst for the horseracing industry, and her mother and sister are country music singers, Naomi Judd and Wynonna Judd, respectively. Naomi Judd was a nurse before beginning her musical career.

Michael Ciminella is a Roman Catholic of Italian extraction (just like Ashley's husband, Dario), but Wynonna and Ashley were raised in their mother's faith, as Baptists.

She and Wynonna do not share the same father, although Wynonna considers Michael Ciminella to be "her dad", and never knew her own father, who died in 2000.

Early years

Her early years were without the comforts of what can be considered the bare necessities, such as running water, electricity, or a telephone (seehttp://www.askmen.com/women/actress/7_ashley_judd.html).

She attended 12 schools in 13 years before college. She was a sister of the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma and elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Kentucky, where she majored in French and minored in anthropology, art history, theater, and women's studies.

She left a few credits shy of graduating in 1990, driving cross-country to her destiny in Hollywood.

In Hollywood, she studied with the well-respected acting teacher, Robert Carnegie, at Playhouse West (where Jeff Goldblum also teaches acting).

Much of the philosophy of the school comes from the work of the late Sanford Meisner, one of the founders of the Group Theater.

Actress

Her television appearances include the role of Ensign Robin Lefler, a Starfleet officer, in two 1991 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and the part of Swoosie Kurtz's daughter on the first season of the NBC drama Sisters.

Her film debut was a small part in Kuffs
(1992) and her first major role was in Ruby in Paradise
(1993), a hit independent drama. She had a role in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers
, but all the scenes she played in were cut from the final version of the film.

She found further critical acclaim in Smoke (1995) and publicity in Heat
(1995).

By the end of the 1990s she managed to achieve significant fame and success as an actress. She played leading roles in such successful films as Double Jeopardy
(1999) and Someone Like You
(2001).

However, she has also gained a reputation for frequently starring in crime thrillers with plots following a similar formula, often with older leading men such as Morgan Freeman in Kiss the Girls
(1997) and High Crimes
(2002), Tommy Lee Jones in Double Jeopardy (1999), and Samuel L. Jackson and Andy Garcia (Twisted
(2004).

Personal life

Whenever her schedule allows, she regularly attends University of Kentucky basketball games, frequently sitting next to Donna Smith (wife of UK Coach Tubby Smith), or in the student section.

She allowed her alma mater to release a hockey calendar of her photos to help raise money for the team. She is frequently sought out for celebrity camera shots during televised games (much like Jack Nicholson with the Los Angeles Lakers or Spike Lee with the New York Knicks).

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