Jennifer Ashley

Birthday: 2 October 1949, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Height: 163 cm

Sultry, spirited and appealing brunette Jennifer Ashley began her show business career as a contestant in beauty pageants. Among the titles she won are Miss Restaurant, Miss Truck Show and Miss Textil ...Show More

Sultry, spirited and appealing brunette Jennifer Ashley began her show business career as a contestant in beauty pageants. Among the titles she won are Miss Restaurant, Miss Truck Show and Miss Textile. A native of the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jennifer studied fabric design for a short spell at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science. The brown-eyed and brown-haired Ashley eventually moved to San Francisco and worked for Columbia Records. Francis Ford Coppola suggested to Jennifer that she audition for a role in "American Graffiti." She didn't get the part, but Ashley did make her film debut with a small role in the comedy "Your Three Minutes Are Up." Jennifer next appeared as a groupie in Brian De Palma's delightfully outrageous "Phantom of the Paradise." She was terrorized by a deranged Andrew Prine in the splendidly sleazy psycho exploitation gems "Barn of the Naked Dead" and "The Centerfold Girls." Ashley's other notable roles include a foxy high school cheerleader in the drive-in hit "The Pom Pom Girls," one of macho shark hunter Hugo Stiglitz's lovers in the dreadful "Jaws" rip-off "Tintorera," crazed religious fanatic Stuart Whitman's mistress in the incredibly tasteless "Guyana: Cult of the Damned," an astronaut group leader in the gruesome "Alien" clone "Inseminoid," and a tough prison inmate in the terrifically trashy babes-behind-bars classic "Chained Heat." In 1985 Jennifer launched her own hugely successful talk show called "Ashley's Closet," in which she served as both host and executive producer. The #1-rated weekly 30-minute program ran on two local Los Angeles cable channels. Ashley's last film role to date was a small part as a TV show host in the comedy "Me, Myself and I." Moreover, Jennifer is also an accomplished abstract painter and a health, fitness and nutrition buff. Ashley now has her own clothing line called Hippie Ink. Hide