Ashley Rickards Biography
American actress Ashley Rickards is best known for playing Jenna Hamilton in the comedy-drama series Awkward on MTV. She portrayed Mandy, a child who is profoundly autistic, in the 2011 independent drama movie “Fly Away.”
Ashley Rickards Age
She was born Ashley Nicole Richards on May 4, 1992, in Sarasota, Florida, United States.
Ashley Rickards Height
Nicole stands tall at a height of 5’4″ (163 cm).
Ashley Rickards Parents
She was brought up by her parents, but she hasn’t spoken anything about her siblings or her family as a whole. She may have had siblings, but neither her mother’s nor father’s identities are known.
Ashley Rickards Dating
She allegedly got engaged to Tom Cole in 2014 because he became tired of seeing her share intimate moments with her male co-stars on “Awkward.” Their romance finally came to an end. In 2015, Ashley Rickards was seeing actor Casey King.
Ashley Rickards Career
In the 2006 short film “Web Journal Now,” written and directed by Chelsea Vance, Ashley Rickards plays Janet. She featured in a number of TV episodes during the following several years, including “Everybody Hates Chris,” “CSI: NY,” “Zoey 101,” “Ugly Betty,” “Entourage,” and “Outlaw.” She appeared in the 2007 television movie “American Family” with Michelle Barkowski and Rachel Spectre.
That year, she made an appearance in the short film “Spoonfed.” Even though she was frequently hired at this period, she was only able to work a set amount of hours each week owing to American laws on child labor. In 2009, Rickards made her cinematic debut in the suspenseful action movie “Gamer.” In her career, she has participated in three music videos: In 2006, The Fray’s ‘How to Save a Life’ was released.
She played the runaway foster daughter Samantha “Sam” Walker in 19 episodes of the adolescent drama series “One Tree Hill” on The WB (later The CW) from 2008 to 2009. Before going for the audition, she had never heard of the show. ‘One Tree Hill’, according to Rickards, taught her all she knows about the business, from acting techniques to various scene-shooting techniques. She appeared in many auditions for shows in 2009. She was supposed to be in the 2010 movie “Dirty Girl,” but that plan was scrapped. In 2010, she had an appearance in an episode of the NBC courtroom drama “Outlaw.”
In both films, Rickards was finally cast. From July 19, 2011, through May 24, 2016, five seasons of “Awkward” were shown on MTV. In Janet Grillo’s 2011 film “Fly Away,” she portrayed Mandy, a teenage girl with severe autism. Both the movie and Rickards’ performance in it received positive reviews, with Rex Reed of “The New York Observer” opining that she deserved an Oscar nod. She has since appeared in movies including “Struck by Lightning” (2012), “Sassy Pants,” “At the Devil’s Door,” “A Haunted House 2,” “Behaving Badly,” “The Outcasts,” and “Pretty Little Stalkers.” She played Rosalind Dillon/Top, a supervillain, in two episodes of The CW’s “The Flash” (2016–17).
As A’sha, Rickards is now starring in the Vimeo online series “ctrl alt delete.” The Project Futures Somaly Mam Foundation, which strives to eradicate human trafficking and sexual slavery in Southeast Asia, was founded by her as a founding member. In March 2015, she published a self-help book through Harlequin Publishers titled “A Real Guide to Getting It Together Once and For All.” In the book, she was open about her eating disorder and her struggle to recover from it.
Ashley Rickards’s Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 2.5 million dollars.