For the English footballer, see Ashley Williams (footballer).

For the Welsh footballer, see Ashley Williams (Soccer Player).

Ashley Williams (born 12 November 1978 in Westchester County, New York, USA) is an American actress. Her father is a freelance medical journalist and her mother is a fundraiser for The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. She is the younger sister of Kimberly Williams-Paisley, also an actress. Her older brother, Jay Williams, is a firefighter and paramedic in Southern California (Los Angeles County).

Williams attended Rye High School in Rye, New York. She has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Boston University’s theatre conservatory, having graduated in May, 2001.

She made her big screen acting debut alongside her sister in the 1993 ensemble comedy-drama Indian Summer.

Williams had a role in the television series Good Morning, Miami (2002–2004). Since then she has also appeared in episodes of How I Met Your Mother, E-Ring, Huff, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

In 2006, she starred in the play Burleigh Grime$.

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