Ashley Williams Biography

Fast Facts

• Was nominated for a Young Star Award for playing Danielle Andropoulos on the soap opera "As the World Turns․"
• Attended Boston University's School of Drama before studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
• Is the sister of actress Kimberly Williams
• Got her start in acting as an understudy to Rachel Weisz and Gretchen Mol in the off-Broadway play "The Shape of Things․"
• Best known for playing Victoria on "How I Met Your Mother․"
• Made her Broadway stage debut in 2013 playing law student Ellen Roark in John Grisham's "A Time to Kill․"
• Is a certified doula, or birth companion, who has coached more than 50 women through the childbirth process, and once had to coach a woman through contractions between filming scenes for an episode of "The New Adventures of Old Christine․"