Ashley Dyke

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Actress Ashley Dyke is best known for her roles as Anna in Steve McQueen's Academy Award winning film "12 Years A Slave", and as Stacey in John Krasinski's "The Hollars". Ashley was raised in Fairfax, Virginia. She is the daughter of two lawyers, Ellen Dyke and the Honorable James W. Dyke, Jr., the first African-American Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Virginia and immediate past Chairman of the Greater Washington Board of Trade. Her mother is Jewish of Hungarian and Polish decent and was born and raised in New York City. Her father is an African-American Christian and was raised in Maryland and Virginia. They met at Howard University School of Law from which they received their law degrees. Ashley is the third of four children She went to Fairfax High School where she was highly involved in student government and was an All American Athlete. She went on to get her degree in theater from the prestigious University of Virginia, and also studied at the celebrated New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where she acquired her first taste of television as a series regular on a campus produced show called "Stratagem." She also performed in several productions while in college including a lead role in "The Vagina Monologues". Ashley moved to Los Angeles to further her career in film and television and hasn't looked back since. She continues to work in theater landing lead roles at theaters including, Second City, Acme Theater, and La Mirada Theater For the Performing Arts. Building a solid career in Hollywood in both comedy and drama. Ashley most recently guest starred on Robin Williams show on CBS "The Crazy Ones", the series finale of Stephen Merchant's HBO show "Hello Ladies", CBS's season finale of "CSI: NY," NBC's "The Cape", and the CW's "90210." Ashley has successfully portrayed a wide range of characters, a young tormented slave in "12 Years A Slave", the wildly outrageous Gigi in "Bud'z House", a young girl struggling in a half-way house in the thriller "New Hope Manor"; on stage, as a young woman surviving a concentration camp in "I Never Saw Another Butterfly.", and as a young black woman living in the segregated 1940"s Ohio, in the theater production of Toni Morrison's, "The Bluest Eye".


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as Woman on Island
Released: 2021-05-21

Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world....

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12 Years a Slave

as Anna
Released: 2013-10-18

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is...

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Hello Ladies: The Movie

as Cute Woman
Released: 2014-11-22

When Stuart learns that his British ex-girlfriend is planning to visit Los Angeles with her...

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The Hollars

as Stacey
Released: 2016-08-25

Aspiring New York City artist John Hollar returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of...

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Budz House

as Gigi
Released: 2011-10-25

Meet Bud Howard, an endearing yet unemployed lazy slacker who lives with his mother Mary Jane...

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New Hope Manor

as Kris
Released: 2009-01-01

Becca has just arrived back to New Hope (a girls ranch) to find that there is a new set of rules...

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Dependent's Day

as Renee
Released: 2016-03-05

Claimed as a 'dependent' by his successful bread-winning girlfriend Alice, Cam struggles to...

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The Cape

as Bridesmaid
First aired: 2011-01-09

"The Cape" is a drama series following Vince Faraday, an honest cop on a corrupt police force,...

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The Crazy Ones

as Pretty Girl
First aired: 2013-09-26

The Crazy Ones is an American situation comedy series created by David E. Kelley that stars...

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