- Born
- Birth nameAshley Michele Greene
- Nickname
- Asher
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Ashley Michele Greene was born in Jacksonville, Florida to parents Michele (Tatum), an insurance broker, and Joseph Lacy Greene, US Marine who runs a concrete business. A self-confessed tomboy and "daredevil", Ashley loved to try to keep up with her older brother Joe, taking on activities such as taekwondo and winning several awards. Ashley says she was not allowed to spar the girls in taekwondo class because she "beat the girls up". She even accidentally once gave a boy she liked a bloody nose and lip while sparring. Ashley admits she is a "competitive little sucker".
During her early teen years, Ashley found herself hanging out with older girls, which impacted her self-esteem when she found them to be more mature and, in her mind, prettier than she was. Ashley describes herself as a "hot mess" as a teenager. Ashley's mother put her into modeling classes to improve her confidence, and Ashley began to consider becoming a model as a career. After being told she was too short to be a model, Ashley considered becoming a lawyer and getting a degree in psychology. She actually convinced her parents to let her leave her private school to attend a public one which had a law and psychology program. However, after taking a commercial class, which led to acting class, Ashley knew what she wanted to do - acting.
Luckily for Ashley, her parents were supportive and allowed her to move to LA at seventeen years of age. Due to her excellent grades and extra credits, she was able to graduate high school early to follow her acting dream.
For three years, Ashley struggled to find acting roles. She picked up small roles here and there in TV shows such as Punk'd (2003) and Crossing Jordan (2001), and some very small film roles in Shrink (2009) and King of California (2007).
Ashley's big break came when she got to audition for the film, Twilight (2008), based on Stephenie Meyer's popular book series. She originally auditioned for "Bella", but, as she says herself, "I was no Bella". She was called back to audition for the role of "Alice Cullen". After a long auditioning process, Ashley was finally told she got the part.
Ashley had previously worked in restaurants but, like the rest of her fellow "Twilight" cast-mates, Ashley found herself suddenly thrust into the limelight. Though she says she doesn't get the same kind of insanity as the boys - especially Robert Pattinson. She says most fans relate to her on a "best friend" level rather than screaming at her hysterically.
Ashley has already begun filming other roles and has high hopes for her career outside of the "Twilight" franchise. She has said she wants to be a superhero, a Bond girl and possibly Wonder Woman in future projects.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Marie Davis
- SpousePaul Khoury(July 6, 2018 - present) (1 child)
- ChildrenKingsley Rainnn Khoury
- ParentsMichele Greene (Tatum)Joseph Lacy Greene
- RelativesJoe Greene(Sibling)
- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Ashley wanted to be a model but got told that she was too short and was advised to take up acting.
- Close friends with Twilight (2008) co-stars Jackson Rathbone, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed and Rachelle Lefevre.
- Ashley had to learn to pitch like a professional for the baseball scene in Twilight (2008).
- (July 6, 2018) Married her boyfriend of 5 years Paul Khoury in San Jose, California. Greene and Khoury wed in front of guests and famous friends including Liam Hemsworth, Zac Efron, Robert Pattinson, Brittany Snow, Lauren Parsekian, Aaron Paul, Evan Ross and Ashlee Simpson. The bride wore a custom back-bearing dress by May, Katie for the ceremony, and later changed into a statement reception gown by Windi Williams-Stern, owner of Studio Unbiased. The couple exchanged vows they'd written themselves during the nuptials. In December 2016, Khoury proposed at the bottom of Bridal Veil Falls during a vacation to Australia and New Zealand. To announce the engagement, Greene shared footage of the exact moment Khoury got down on bended knee on her Instagram.
- Ranked #17 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World" of 2011.
- I grew up in Middleburg and Jacksonville, and went to University Christian School before transferring to Wolfson High School when I was in tenth grade.
- I moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of 17 to pursue an acting career.
- I initially planned to become a model, but was told that I was not tall enough at 5 feet 5 inches (1.65 m) to be a fashion model and should instead focus on acting in commercials.
- As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to walk out of a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?
- My whole outlook has changed. You go into rooms with producers and directors and you're so nervous, and you're thinking these are big, bad studio heads and they want you to fail. Then you do something like this, and you can walk into these rooms and they want to know what you think, what you want to do, how you view their script. I go into these rooms [now], sit down, and have conversations with these people, which is what I should have been doing from the beginning. It's a different world.
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