10 Facts About Elizabeth Ashley

Elizabeth Ashley has been nominated for three Tony Awards, winning once in 1962 for Take Her, She's Mine.

Elizabeth Ashley was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 24 times.

Elizabeth Ashley appeared in an episode of Mannix, "The Dark Hours", in 1974.

Elizabeth Ashley is a 2024 inductee into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

Elizabeth Ashley left Louisiana State University after her freshman year and moved to New York.

Elizabeth Ashley studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre there, supporting herself by working as the Jell-O pudding girl on a television program and as a showroom model.

Elizabeth Ashley won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Take Her, She's Mine, then later starred as Corie in the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park and, later, as Maggie in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Elizabeth Ashley has been featured in major motion pictures over five decades, including early roles in The Carpetbaggers, Ship of Fools, and The Third Day.

Elizabeth Ashley had the role of Kate in Sandburg's Lincoln, a six-part dramatization that ran on NBC in the mid-1970s.

Elizabeth Ashley was featured in 14 episodes of the HBO series Treme as Aunt Mimi.