She is the youngest
daughter of Naomi Judd and Michael Ciminella.
Ashley is a sister of
the Kappa Kappa Gama sorority. She attended UK (University of Kentucky)
with a degree in French and four minors in anthropology, art history,
theatrical and women's studies, Judd has studied the Meisner technique
in acting for several years.
She turned down a
larger role in Kuffs (1992) because she was asked to do nude scenes.
She responded, "My mother worked too hard for me to take my
clothes off in my first movie." She also had a role in Oliver
Stone's "Natural Born Killers", but it was left on the
cutting room floor. The movie does contain evidence that she was in it
though.
In 1996, she was
named one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People In The
World".
Her latest movie
Double Jeopardy was a big hit. She acted with Tommy Lee Jones. And we
are waiting for his new movie called 'Eye of the Beholder'. It will be
filmed in the year 2000.