Lindsay graduated from Riverside Polytechnic High School in Riverside in 2003. She graduated from the University of California, Riverside, in June 2007, with a degree in Political Science. She received her Masters Degree in Counseling from the University of Redlands in 2010.
She was the second actress to play Morgan Matthews on the television show Boy Meets World for the last 5 seasons of the show"s American Broadcasting Company Television run after Lily Nicksay. In 1994, she originated the role of Tina Denmark in the Los Angeles cast of Ruthless! The Musical, and her performance is captured on the cast recording. Ridgeway was a guest actress portraying Suspiria in the series Star Trek Voyager.
Ridgeway was the singing voice of "Darla Dimple", the villain in the 1997 animated film Cats Don"t Dance.
She also is a semi-regular singer of the National Anthem at Staples Center in Los Angeles for the National Hockey League"s Los Angeles Kings and for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball team, and performs in cabaret shows periodically throughout Los Los Angeles
