Ashley Judd Net Worth

Ashley Judd's Quotes

• It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.
• [on confronting sexual harassment] We need to formalize the whisper network. It's an ingenious way that we've tried to keep ourselves safe. All those voices can be amplified. That's my advice to women. That, and if something feels wrong, it is wrong - and its wrong by my definition and not necessarily someone else's.

Interesting Facts about Ashley Judd

1. 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."
2. She attended 12 schools in 13 years before college. She was a sister of the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Kentucky, where she majored in French and minored in cultural anthropology, art history, theater and women's studies. She left a few credits shy of graduating in 1990, when she decided to drive cross-country to pursue an acting career in Hollywood.
3. Mother and sister are country singers Naomi Judd and Wynonna Judd. She once worked cleaning her mother's and sister's tour bus for $10 a day.
4. Her father, Michael Ciminella, a marketing specialist in the horseracing industry, divorced Naomi Judd in 1972.
5. (1996, 2000 and 2002) Named one of "The 50 Most Beautful People in the World" by People magazine.
6. Known to be a avid fan of the University of Kentucky Wildcats basketball team, once not showering because she felt it would jinx them. For a cheerleading scene in her movie Someone Like You... (2001), she uses the Wildcats' cheerleaders' cheer routine, and thanks them in the credits.
7. Her mother, Naomi Judd, has publicly objected to many of Ashley's movies because they contain either profanity, nudity, sex or violence.
8. Was named after Ashland, Kentucky and is an eighth-generation Kentuckian.
9. Replaced Jodie Foster for the lead in Double Jeopardy (1999).
10. Speaks French fluently.
11. Could have had Pamela Anderson's role on Home Improvement (1991), but wanted to concentrate on making it in the movies instead. She later starred in Where the Heart Is (2000), which was directed by Matt Williams, the producer who wanted her on the sitcom.
12. She had a role in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994), but it was left on the cutting room floor.
13. Fractured her right ankle when she was thrown from a horse's saddle in Franklin, Tennessee. She was hospitalized for two days. [November 1993]
14. Named one of the "25 Most Intriguing People" by People magazine. [1999]
15. A self-proclaimed feminist
16. Ranked #20 in FHM Magazine's 100 "Sexiest Women in the World." (2002)
17. Worked as a waitress at the trendy 'Ivy' restaurant while studying the Sanford Meisner technique of acting at Playhouse West in Los Angeles.
18. Modeled her "This is What a Feminist Looks Like" t-shirt for the Ms. Foundation and Ms. Online (ms.magazine.com), as have Whoopi Goldberg, Camryn Manheim and Margaret Cho.
19. Bakes chocolate chip cookies as a means to relieve stress.
20. Turned down the role of "Catwoman" in Catwoman (2004) so she could star as "Maggie" in Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway.