Ashley Benson Biography

Summary

"Ashley Victoria Benson" (born December 18, 1989) is an American film and television actress, and model.

Benson was born in the Anaheim Hills area of Anaheim, California. As a toddler, she quickly moved with her family to San Diego. At age 3, Benson started doing dancing competitively with ballet, jazz, hip-hop, and lyrical. Benson also loves to sing, she has appeared in several choir groups and musicals, at age 4, she was asked to audition to sing a solo for her 2,500 member church at 4 Christmas services and she did. At age 8, Ashley Benson signed with Ford Models and worked steadily in print. She has also been seen in several music videos.

In 1999, Benson started pursuing an acting career. She started working and appearing on a number of commercials, but quickly made the transition into film and television. In April 2005, Benson signed a three-year contract with the television series, "Days of our Lives". She portrayed Abigail 'Abby' Deveraux, the oldest child of supercouple Jack Deveraux and Jennifer Horton.

Benson has also appeared on several television shows, including "The Girls Next Door", "A Haunting", "Sex and the City", "Hero", "Weird Astronomy", and "Lucky". She has also appeared in the film "13 Going on 30" as one of the 'Six Chicks'.

Recent projects

She starred in NLT's first music video, "That Girl." While NLT was on the Bandemonium Tour Ashley and JJ Thorne from NLT briefly dated. Her career has also drifted into the realm of modeling; she has done a photo shoot for "Vogue Magazine" with Britney Spears, and has also appeared in 35 commercials. She appeared as one of the back roles in an installment of the "Bring It On" series, "Bring It On: In It to Win It" as Carson. Recently, she appeared in the Lifetime TV movie "Fab Five: The Texas Cheerleader Scandal," where she played head cheerleader Brooke of the Fab Five, which is based on a true story which took place at McKinney North High School in Texas. She also played a witch disguised as a cheerleader in the CW series Supernatural.