Elizabeth Ashley

Birthplace: Ocala, Florida, USA
Birthday: August 30, 1939

A gifted, spirited Broadway lead of the early 1960s ("Take Her She's Mine" 1961, "Barefoot in the Park" 1963), Elizabeth Ashley has also proven popular on talk shows where she has become a quick-talking raconteur with the edge of someone fraught, wrought and distraught.

Ashley spent more than two decades as a Broadway star before becoming known to TV audiences playing the eccentric Aunt Frieda on "Evening Shade" (CBS, 1990-94). While still a teen-ager when she made her Broadway debut in 1959 in "The High…more

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Credits

Actor

The War Between the Tates
Erica Tate
The File on Devlin
Sally Devlin
Tom and Joann
Joann Hammil
The Rope
Annie
When Michael Calls
Helen Connelly

Producer

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Associate Producer (International Television Group)

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Career Milestones

2001
Portrayed Amanda Wingfield in the Hartford Stage revival of "The Glass Menagerie"; reprised role with slightly different cast at Houston's Alley Theatre
2000
Co-starred in the stage revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man"
1998
Resumed film career in the role of a divorcee chasing after the unhappily married Ben Gazzara in "Happiness", directed by Todd Solondz
1995
Returned to Broadway in revival of "Suddenly Last Summer"
1990
Had role as Emma Frame Ordway on the NBC daytime serial "Another World"