Ashley Johnson

About Ashley Johnson

This blonde-haired, blue-eyed child performer broke into the business at age two as a clothing model and soon found herself in local and national commercials. By age five, Johnson was wowing the judges at a Universal Studio beauty pageant with her rendition of "Broadway Baby". She won the talent competition and took her act to TV's "Star Search". America first experienced Johnson's charms when she joined the cast of the long-running ABC sitcom "Growing Pains" as Chrissy Seaver during the 1990-91 season. Intriguingly, her character had ended the previous season as an infant and returned as the adorable seven-year-old Johnson.

Johnson made her feature debut opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme in the action programmer "Lionheart" (1991). She bade farewell to the Seavers in 1992 and moved on to specials and TV-movies. Johnson returned as a sitcom regular on "Phenom" (ABC, 1993-94) playing the younger sister of the tennis star protagonist. She was also a regular on the highly touted "All-American Girl" (ABC, 1994), as a friend of the Korean-American family who also served as an audience surrogate.

Career Milestones

Acted in local and national commercials

Appeared as a contestant on "Star Search" singing Broadway Baby

Played a lost boy in a production of "Peter Pan"

Sang with the Side Street Strutters at Disneyland

1985

Began modeling clothes at age two (date approximate)

1988

Won the talent portion of a beauty pageant at Universal Studios with her rendition of Broadway Baby

1990

TV debut as a regular, playing Chrissy Seaver on the hit ABC sitcom, "Growing Pains"

1991

Feature acting debut, "Lionheart", starring Jean-Claude Van Damme

1991

TV-movie debut, "Men Don't Tell"

1993

Cast as Mary Margaret Doolan, the little sister on "Phenom" (ABC)

1994

Cast as a regular on the ABC sitcom "All-American Girl"

1998

Had recurring role as a cancer patient on "ER" (NBC)

2000

Played featured part of Mel Gibson's daughter in "What Women Want"

2002

Had a recurring role on the NBC drama, "Providence"

2004

Voiced Jinmay on the animated series "Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!" (Toon Disney)

2005

Cast in the family drama, "Nearing Grace"

2006

Cast as part of an ensemble in Richard Linklater's "Fast Food Nation"