Celebrity Nooz: Ashley Johnson

Ashley Johnson (Actress) - Growing Pains

Updated: 5/30/13

Name: Ashley Johnson

Born: August 9, 1983, Camarillo, California

Claim To Fame: Johnson is best known for her role as Chrissy Seaver in the TV show Growing Pains.

Family Life: She has an older brother, Chris, who worked on the television show, The District. Her older sister, Haylie Johnson is best known for her role as Haylie on Kids Incorporated.

Info: By the time she was twenty-one, Johnson had already been part of the casts of eight different television series. Her career began when she won the role of Chrissy Seaver on the TV show Growing Pains at the age of six. She was on the show from 1990-1992. She went on to appear in a number of TV series and movies, including the 2000 comedy What Women Want as Mel Gibson's daughter.

Trivia: Graduated from high school when she was 15.

Attended the International School of Music, where she studied violin and piano; she also plays guitar and cello.

Loves to snowboard and surf, was taught to sail by her father.

Is an avid gun shooter.

Her father passed away from cancer in July of 2000.

Where Are They Now: From 2011-2012, she appeared on the drama series The Killing as Amber Ahmed. In 2012, she appeared in The Avengers as a waitress who is saved by Captain America. The Blu-Ray edition of the film contains a deleted scene that expands her role in the movie, and may lead to a returning role as a friend or love interest for Captain America.

Johnson has also found success as a voice actress. She voiced Gretchen Grundler on the Walt Disney TV animated series Recess, Terra in the Teen Titans animated series during the show's second season, Jinmay on Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! and Gwen Tennyson on Ben 10 Alien Force and in future variations of the Ben 10 franchise. Johnson is set to co-star in the upcoming PlayStation exclusive The Last of Us.

Johnson and her sister Haylie are former Miss Jr. Michigan titleholders, and they currently play in a band together.

She also co-runs the photography company Infinity Pictures, with her friend, production assistant Mila Sha.

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