Ashley Judd

We are talking about an actress who has a degree in French, an understanding of Vermeer painting and a virtuous violinist, qualities that anyone would define her as having an exquisite, delicate and eminently artistic sensibility. But Ashley Judd combines that fine facet with other skills that a priori are not very feminine, such as climbing, country jogging or mountain excursions. This double aspect of her personality has given her the opportunity to embody a good number of roles of “strong women”, those types of heroines who combine the emotional vulnerability typical of her gender with an enormous push to overcome adverse situations and violent.

Ashley Judd – whose real name is Ashley Taylor Ciminella – was born in Granada Hills (California), on April 19, 1968, and has an older sister named Wynonna. Her parents (Michael and Naomi) divorced when she was four years old and financial hardships were a constant in her family during her childhood. It even seems that they came to live on the few foods that grew in her garden, while her mother and her sister tried to succeed in the world of song. They moved so much in those days that Ashley attended twelve schools in thirteen years, before, finally, Naomi and Wynonna succeeded in the country world by forming a duo called The Judds. The money problems were parked and Ashley was able to finish school and enter the University of Kentucky to study French. She was a smart girl

He debuted in 1991 with fleeting appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation and on the television series Sisters . But the following year he was already part of the cast of Kuffs, cop by chance, a film in which he declined to play a more extensive role due to his nude scenes: “My mother worked too hard for me, for me now to get naked in my first film”, declared the actress. The following year, director Víctor Núñez offered her the leading role in Ruby en el paraíso , a turning point in Ashley Judd’s career and for which she received the Best Actress award at the Independent Spirit Awards.

From then on, Ashley Judd played supporting roles in important films, such as Smoke (1995), Heat (1995) or A Time to Kill (1996). That same year she was nominated for Golden Globes and Emmys for her television work in Norma Jean and Marilyn . And she later began with her most characteristic roles, which she also combined with other fresher and more romantic ones. Thus, she stood out as a captive in The Collector of Lovers (1997), was persecuted by the cops in Double Betrayal (1999), dangerously deceived in The Whole Truth (2002) and suspected of murder in Unexpected Twist.(2004), all of them thrillers of notable interest, with renowned actors, and where she demanded the absence of specialists even in the most dangerous scenes. In his other facet, he stood out in the sentimental La fuerza del amor (2000) and Siempre a tu lado , in the soft feminist comedy Clan Ya-Ya (2002), in the biographical Frida (2002), and in the brilliant period musical De -Lovely (2004).

But although the 21st century began with good news for her, since she married the actor Dario Franchitti, her film career gradually deteriorated. In the middle of the decade she stopped appearing in high-profile films. She worked for William Friedkin in the thriller Bug and reported to the director of Delicious Martha in the drama Helen . Although these are not failed films, they did not have the desired echo among the public, and her face soon stopped filling covers. In 2009, she was part of the large cast of Forbidden Territory , an uneven crime thriller with Harrison Ford . Something more jerk – not quality – she had in the action comedyDuplicate robbery (2011) and that same year he signed up for family cinema with Winter’s Great Adventure . Subsequently, the actress also succumbed to the media drag of the series and she was the protagonist of Missing , where she was a woman looking for her son who disappeared from her under strange circumstances. However, the first season did not have the desired success and was cancelled. At the moment the actress is out of luck. But she will be back soon with a role in the action movie Target: The White House , directed by stuntman Antoine Fuqua and starring Gerard Butler .