Ashley put all her focus into acting which left little time for modeling and dancing, anymore. Ashley's most recent role is "Hanna Marin" on ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars. Ashley also had a cameo in 'Lil Romeo' and Solange Knowles's music video for the song "True Love". She did a photo shoot with Britney Spears for Vogue Magazine. She is in NLT's music video "That Girl".
Background
Ashley Victoria Benson was born on December 18, 1989. She has been dancing competitively since she was 2 with hip hop, jazz, ballet, tap and lyrical. She has been singing since she was about 5 and she hopes to pursue that along with her acting.
Ashley started modeling at the age of 5 for dance catalogs.
Ashley was then pursued by The Ford Modeling Agency at the age of 8. She worked steadily in print and is still with the Agency. At the age of 10, she wanted to pursue acting. Ashley went on to do 35 commercials, and then on to theatrical roles.
Acting was now Ashley's passion.
Education
She studied at High School
Career
Ashley Victoria Benson started her career at a very young age. When Ashley was only two years old she was dancing competitively to hip hop, ballet, tap, jazz and lyrical. Ms. Benson also started singing and modeling at five years of age. Ashley started off modeling for various categlogs but at the age of eight she was then pursued by The Ford Modeling Agency. Since then Ms. Benson has worked steadily in print and is still with the Modeling Agency.
At around the age of 10 Ashley started pursueing her acting career. She started by doing 35 commercials. After getting her acting skills warmed up she moved on to theatrical roles. Ashley decided that acting was her passion and put all her focus into it which left little time for modeling and dancing anymore.
Ashley has since been featured as a guest on many popular television shows. Some of them include: Nikki, The District, The West Wing, Strong Medicine, Zoey 101, 7th Heaven,
The O.C., CSI: Miami, Supernatural and Eastwick.
One of Ashley’s biggest role’s so far has been as Abby Deveraux on Day’s of our Lives. Ashley Benson started on the soap Days in 2004 and stayed on the show for three years for a total of 47 episodes. She also landed a big role with Pretty Little Liars where she plays as Hanna Marin. Check out her Pretty Little Liar’s co-stars Shay Mitchell, Lucy Hale, and Troian Bellisario (our sister sites).
Ashley has also starred in the following movies: 13 Going on 30 & Bring It On: In It to Win It
Ms. Benson is currently working on the television movie Ex-Mas Carol
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