Ashley Greene Biography

Ashley Michele Greene (born February 21, 1987) is an American actress and model. She is known for playing Alice Cullen in the film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels.

Early life

Greene was born in Jacksonville, Florida. She is the daughter of Michele (ne Tatum), who works in insurance, and Joe Greene, a former U.S. Marine who now owns his own concrete business. She grew up in Middleburg and Jacksonville, and went to University Christian School before transferring to Wolfson High School when she was in tenth grade. She moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of 17 to pursue an acting career. Greene has an older brother named Joe.

Career

She initially planned to become a model, but was told that she was not tall enough at to be a fashion model and should instead focus on acting in commercials. After taking commercial and acting classes, she fell in love with acting and realized that she preferred it over modeling. Greene graduated from high school early and moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.

Early in her career, she appeared as a guest on such television programs, as Punk'd and Crossing Jordan. Greene's big break started in 2008 when she was cast as Alice Cullen in The Twilight Saga series of films, which are based on the novel series of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. The series consists of the films Twilight, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, which were respectively released in 2008, 2009, and 2012, as well as the Breaking Dawn films, which consist of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, which were respectively released in 2011 and 2012.

Greene portrayed Michelle Burkham in the drama film Skateland, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.

She reunited with her Twilight co-star Kellan Lutz in the movie A Warrior's Heart (2011), and also starred in thriller film Summer's Blood (2009) and the Dark Castle Entertainment horror film The Apparition (2012).

In 2013, Greene starred in the historical film CBGB about the former Manhattan music club with the same name.

Personal life

Greene became engaged to Paul Khoury in December 2016.

Greene is a good friend of her Twilight co-stars, particularly Kellan Lutz and Jackson Rathbone, whom she knew before filming of the series began. Greene has stated that she grew up watching football and is a Florida Gators fan. She was also seen attending a Green Bay Packers game against the New York Giants with then-boyfriend Joe Jonas and Jessica Szohr at Lambeau Field in 2010. In 2009, nude self-portraits of Greene were leaked onto the internet. Her attorneys threatened to sue various websites that published the pictures.

Appearing nude in a bodypainted bikini, Greene posed for SoBe advertisements that ran in the 2010 issue of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. In 2010, Greene received "The Style Icon Award" at Hollywood Life"?s Young Hollywood Awards, as well as an award from the PETA foundation for representing Avon and their no testing on animals policy.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Crossing Jordan	Ann Rappaport	Episode: "The Elephant in the Room"
	Mad TV	Amber	Episode 11.17
	Desire	Renata	7 episodes
2008	Shark	Natalie Faber	Episode: "Partners in Crime"
2011-12	Pan Am	Amanda Mason	5 episodes
2012	Americana	Alice Garano	Unsold pilot
2016	Hell's Kitchen	Herself	Episode: "Dancing in the Grotto"
2016-17	Rogue	Mia

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	King of California	McDonald's Customer
2008	Otis	Kim #4
	Twilight	Alice Cullen
2009	Shrink	Missy
	Summer's Blood	Summer Matthews
	'	Alice Cullen
2010	Skateland	Michelle Burkham
	'	Alice Cullen
	Radio Free Albemuth	Rhonda
2011	'	Brooklyn Milligan
	Butter	Kaitlen Pickler
	'	Alice Cullen
2012	LOL	Ashley
	'	Kelly
	'	Alice Cullen
2013	CBGB	Lisa Kristal
2014	Wish I Was Here	Janine
	Kristy	Violet
	Burying the Ex	Evelyn Morrison
2015	Staten Island Summer	Krystal Manicucci
	Shangri-La Suite	Priscilla Presley
2016	Urge	Theresa
	In Dubious Battle	Danni Stevens
	Max & Me	Rachel (voice)	In post-production

Music videos

Year	Title	Artist
2005	Lyudi Invalidy/ Dangerous and Moving	t.A.T.u

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role
2015	Batman: Arkham Knight	Barbara Gordon / Batgirl
	Batgirl: A Matter of Family

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result
2009	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie: Fresh Face Female	Twilight
	Scream Awards	Best Supporting Actress
		Best Ensemble Cast
2010	Teen Choice Awards	Scene Stealer Female	The Twilight Saga: New Moon
		Most Fanatic Fans
2011		Scene Stealer Female	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
2012			The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
	Young Hollywood Awards	Female Superstar of Tomorrow