Ashley Williams Biography

Ashley Williams (Ashley Churchill Williams) is an American film, television, and theater actress. She is best known for her starring role in the television series The Jim Gaffigan Show on TV Land and in the NBC series Good Morning Miami.

Over the many years of its run, she played fan favorite Victoria on the hit CBS series How I Met Your Mother opposite Josh Radnor.

Williams has starred in more than a dozen different television pilots over the years and done over 150 episodes of television in addition to television movies for Lifetime Television, The Hallmark Channel, and ABC Family.

She has worked in studio and independent films, Off-Broadway, regional theater, and on Broadway. Williams is also a certified birth doula.

Ashley Williams Age | How Old Is Ashley Williams

She was born on November 12, 1978 in Westchester County, New York, United States. She is 44 years old as of 2022.

Ashley Williams Height

Williams stands at a height of around 5 feet 7 inches tall.

Ashley Williams Family

She is the daughter of Gurney Williams III, a freelance health and science writer, and Linda Barbara (née Payne), a fundraiser for The Michael J. Fox Foundation.

Williams is the younger sister of actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley and is sister-in-law to country music star Brad Paisley.

Ashley Williams Husband

She got married to independent film producer Neal Dodson on May 29, 2011. The couple has two sons: Gus Williams Dodson born on October 5, 2014 and Odie Sal Dodson born on May 17, 2017.

Ashley Williams Miscarriage

In the summer of 2016, Williams suffered a miscarriage when she was two months pregnant. She partnered with the Human Development Project to speak publicly about the experience, in hopes of reducing the stigma of miscarriage and encouraging more women to talk openly about it.

Ashley Williams Net Worth

Williams has an estimated net worth of around $3 million which she earned from her career as a film, television and theater actress.

Ashley Williams Education

She attended Rye High School in Rye, New York. In May 2001, Williams received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre.

Ashley Williams Career

She made her big-screen acting debut in a non-speaking role in the 1993 drama Indian Summer, which also featured her sister Kimberly. From 1994 to 1996, she played teenage Danielle Andropoulos on the soap opera As the World Turns.

From 2002 – 2004, Williams starred in the television series Good Morning, Miami. Since then, she has also appeared in episodes of How I Met Your Mother, Psych, multiple episodes of Huff, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, multiple episodes of E-Ring, multiple episodes of Side Order of Life, Royal Pains, The Mentalist, Monk, multiple episodes of Saving Grace, Love Bites, The Mentalist, The Protector, Retired at 35, and multiple episodes of Warehouse 13.

She also had a guest-starring role on American Dreams, playing singer Sandie Shaw and performing Shaw’s 1964 hit “(There’s) Always Something There to Remind Me” on American Bandstand.

In 2006, Williams starred in the Off Broadway play Burleigh Grime$ and appeared as Victoria, a cupcake baker, on the sixth episodes of the television series How I Met Your Mother, a role she reprised in the concluding seasons of the show.

In 2010, she starred in the made-for-TV Lifetime movies, Patricia Cornwell’s The Front and At Risk, which premiered on the channel on April 17, 2010. Williams also won an on-line straw poll conducted by the How I Met Your Mother production staff as to which ex-girlfriend of Ted Mosby, the show’s main character, is the fans’ favorite. Her character, Victoria, won 128 to 117 over Robin Scherbatsky, with a smattering of votes for other candidates.

In 2011 and 2012, Williams played the role of Claire in a film adaptation of Something Borrowed opposite John Krasinski, Kate Hudson, and her college roommate Ginnifer Goodwin, and she also reprised her role as Victoria on How I Met Your Mother.

On September 28, 2013, Williams made her Broadway debut in John Grisham’s A Time To Kill playing law student Ellen Roarke, with the opening night on October 20, 2013.

She had previously worked at the Williamstown Theater Festival, and also worked as the understudy for both Gretchen Mol and Rachel Weisz opposite Paul Rudd in the world premiere Off-Broadway production of Neil LaBute’s play The Shape of Things. She performed both lead female roles multiple times during the run.

In 2015 and 2016, she starred as a fictionalized version of comedian Jim Gaffigan’s real life wife in The Jim Gaffigan Show on Comedy central, a sitcom about a couple raising their five young children in a two-bedroom New York City apartment which also starred Adam Goldberg and Michael Ian Black.

Ashley Williams Measurements

Height: 5 Feet 7 Inches (170cm)
Weight: 52kg (114lbs)
Body Measurement and Size: 34-24-34
Bra Size: 34C
Shoe/Feet: 8.5
Dress size: 8
Eye Color: Blue

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