Full name: Ashley McCall Scott
Born: July 13, 1977
Place of Birth: Louisiana (USA).
Ashley was born in Metairie, Louisiana, but raised in Charleston,
South Carolina as the middle child between two brothers. Parents Joe Scott 63, a nurse, and Andrea Meister, 57, an administrative assistant.
Ashley Scott began her career as a young girl when she began
modeling. While living in Charleston, S.C. she entered a Millie
Lewis Convention. Though she forgot her TV commercial,
she was so good on recovery, that she won her division. After Millie
Lewis and her sophomore year of High School, the 15 year
old went to New York to pursue her modeling career. She traveled,
trying different markets and eventually became a Model for Elite
Miami. She settled in Miami, was an active catalogue model,
and a Giorgio Red Spokesmodel. As a young woman, she modeled
internationally, and graced the runways at fashion shows in
Miami, Paris and London.
She has appeared on the cover of the
prestigious Hollywood Reporter and has been tracked by photographers
from such publications as WWD, US Weekly and Cosmo Girl.
Ashley
decided to give acting a go and one of her first auditions
was with Al Pacino (for the film 'Simone'). When
asked how
she felt about the audition she said, "I'm dyslexic, so I was
more frightened about reading in front of someone whether it
be Al Pacino or, you know, anybody. I was more paranoid about
that, but, you know, it was cool. It was just like sitting
down with regular old people. But he's pretty magical. He's
pretty spectacular."
She didn't win the role, but her
audition tape for the Al Pacino film landed in the offices
of DreamWorks. She was then cast in another film that led to
her first significant big screen credit, a few eye catching
seconds as Gigolo Jane in the feature film "AI: Artificial
Intelligence" where she sharedscreen time with Jude
Law's Gigolo Joe.
In 2001 she also broke into TV when she
was cast as Asha Barlow in the second season of FOX's hit sci-fi show
Dark Angel. It was her first real acting role. Her character
was an ally to cyber journalist Logan Cale (Michael Weatherly)
and part of a group formed to expose government corruption.
The Dark Angel people liked her enough to try to revise the
formerly bookish character to fit Ashley's personality and
they also quickly upgraded her from a guest star to a cast
member.
In
February 2002, while still featured in her reoccurring role
on Dark Angel, the announcement came that she was cast
as Helena Kyle a.k.a the Huntress (a superhero) in the pilot
for the possible upcoming WB series about post-Batman Gotham
and a trio of female crime fighters known as the Birds of
Prey (a series loosely based on the DC comic of the same name).
Ashley did do most of her own stunt work for the Pilot episode
of Birds of Prey.
She's quoted as saying "I want to do as much
as I can, legally as much as I can. I like to get my hands
dirty, so, yeah, hopefully back handsprings will come." She
studied Tai Kwan Do and gymnastics with a Trainer in preparation
for the role of Huntress. Filming the Pilot cut short her time
on Dark Angel, but it turned out that show would not be returning
in the fall. She gained a few fans as Huntress in the WB's "Birds
of Prey" in the Fall of 2002, but that show unfortunatly
had a short run and ended mid-season. Ashley
followed her work on 'Birds of Prey' with feature films and has been in such films as "S.W.A.T.", "Trespassing", "Walking
Tall", and "Into the Blue".
She was originally cast in the pilot of the NBC Matt LeBlanc sitcom Joey in 2004, but she was replaced by Andrea Anders.She has a minor role in the picture "Just Friends" (2005), as a nurse. She plays Emily in the CBS new drama "Jericho"
Scott
currently resides in Los Angeles and was married to Anthony
Scott Rhulen. ‘I have two dogs: Pork Chop the pug and Ozzy the chihuahua. We have two tortoises, a chameleon named Morty and a bearded dragon named Spike.’ she said in a recent interview. She had a tongue ring (She removed it a few years ago) and has two tattoos, one on
her lower back and another of her husband's initials on
the back of her neck.
Her phoenix tattoo on her lower back with the Chinese ideographs for ‘strength, destiny, love and courage’. Without commenting in depth, Scott said she went through a ‘life-changing experience a while back,’ and the phoenix ‘rising out of the ashes’ is an important symbol.
When not working, she enjoys horseback
riding,
cooking and hanging out with her friends. She loves the
McRib
(from McDonalds). Her favorite comic book hero is The Incredible
Hulk. She enjoys fishing, specifically 'flounder giggin'.
We will see her soon in some of her up coming projects.
