Who is Ashley Greene? Everything You Need to Know

Quick Facts

Also Known As: Ashley Michele Greene

Age: 37 Years, 37 Year Old Females

Family:

father: Joe Greene

mother: Michele Greene

Partner: Paul Khoury (engaged)

Born Country: United States

Actresses American Women

Height: 5'5" (165 cm), 5'5" Females

Notable Alumni: Lee Strasberg Theatre And Film Institute

U.S. State: Florida

City: Jacksonville, Florida

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education: Lee Strasberg Theatre And Film Institute

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Childhood & Early Life

Ashley Greene was born on February 21, 1987, in Jacksonville, Florida to Joseph Lacy Greene and Michele Tatum Greene. Her father, is an ex-US Marine, who now runs his own concrete business while her mother is an insurance executive.

She has an elder brother named Joe Greene who is also an actor. She spent her growing up years in Jacksonville and Middleburg, first attending the University Christian School but later on enrolled in Wolfson High School when she was promoted to 10th grade.

Ashley was daredevil and tomboyish by nature right from her childhood and tried to outdo her brother in physically challenging activities like taekwondo. She recalls being disallowed from sparring with girls in her taekwondo class as she landed heavy blows on them.

Owing to her overly outgoing and unruly disposition, she discovered that she preferred going out with girls many years senior to her. Her intermingling with elder girls greatly hurt her self-confidence and her mother got her admitted in modeling classes to enhance her flagging self-esteem.

Owing to her short height, she was discouraged from pursuing a career in modeling and was recommended to concentrate on doing advertisements. She acted in commercials for ‘Mark Cosmetics’ and Apple Inc’s’ iPod’.

She went to the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in New York City to attend acting classes, following which she became convinced that she wanted to be an actress. She finally moved to Los Angeles at age seventeen and persevered for almost three years, accepting bit roles in films and TV serials.

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Career

During the initial part of her acting career, Ashley Green got small roles in shows like ‘Crossing Jordan’ and ‘Mad TV’. Her debut role on the big screen was fleetingly appearing as a customer in a McDonald’s outlet in the film, ‘King of California' followed by an equally brief appearance in ‘Otis’.

The turning point in her career came in 2008, when she landed a supporting role in the movie ‘Twilight’. She was selected to portray Alice Cullen, a vampire, and sister of Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), the protagonist. Ashley had originally auditioned for the role of Bella Swan, the lead actress but Kristen Stewart ended up bagging the part.

'Twilight' and all the subsequent movie sequels (The Twilight Saga film series) are cinematic adaptations of a series of novels penned by Stephenie Meyer, having identical names.

Greene reprised her role as Alice Cullen in all the five Twilight Saga movies: ‘Twilight’, ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’, ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse’, and ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 & Part 2’. The Twilight movie sequels turned out to be blockbusters and the first four installments grossed revenues in excess of $2.5 billion.

The stupendous success of the entire series of The Twilight films rubbed off on Ashley as she was flooded with film offers.

Ashley Greene was cast as Michelle Burkham in the drama movie, ‘Skateland’ that was first screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. Her portrayal of Brooklyn Milligan in ‘A Warrior’s Heart’ wowed her fans and critics equally. She shared screen space with renowned actors Hugh Jackman and Jennifer Garner in the movie ‘Butter’ (2011).

In 2012, she portrayed a character sharing her name in the romantic-comedy film, ‘LOL’ acting alongside celebrity actress Demi Moore and noted singer, Miley Cyrus. She depicted the leading character, Kelly in the supernatural horror film, ‘Apparition’ (2012) and enacted Lisa Krystal in the period movie, ‘CBGB’ (2013).

Over the next few years, she featured in movies such as ‘Burying the Ex’ (2014), ‘Staten Island Summer’ (2014), ‘Staten Island Summer’ (2015), ‘Shangri-La Suite’ (2015), ‘Urge’ (2015), and ‘In Dubious Battle’ (2016).

She lent her voice to ‘Barbara Gordon’ and ‘Batgirl’ respectively in the video games, ‘Batman: Arkham Knight’ and ‘Batgirl: A Matter of Family’. Both the video games were launched in 2015.

Salary Controversy Relating to the Twilight Film Series

Ashley together with her co-star, Kellan Lutz attempted to renegotiate their salaries for the two ‘Breaking Dawn’ movies of ‘The Twilight Saga’ film sequels. Following threats from the production company, they agreed to accept $1.25 million each.

Personal Life

Ashley Greene has had several flings in the past. She has been in relationships with Josh Henderson, Chance Crawford, Ian Somerhalder, Rafi Gavron, Seth Mcfarlane, Brock Kelly, Joe Jonas, Ryan Phillippe, and Reeve Carney.

In 2016, she got engaged to Paul Khoury. They walked down the aisle in July 2018. In March 2022, Ashley Greene and Paul announced that they were expecting their first child together. In September 2022, their daughter Kinglsey was born.

She divides her time between living in New York City and Los Angeles.

Trivia

Ashley regards Audrey Hepburn as her role model and has watched her movie, ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ several times.

Ashley Greene Biography