Ashley Judd Net Worth

#Fact1[2014] She is no longer a vegetarian. Interviewed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) (March 18, 2014) she talked about going to Perini's Steakhouse in Texas and ordering "everything on the menu.".2Cambridge, MA, USA: Enrolled at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government to earn a one-year Mid-Career Master's degree in Public Administration (MC/MPA). [August 2009]3The global ambassador for YouthAIDS, an international health initiative to raise awareness and combat the spread of H.I.V./AIDS. [November 2004]4In India, on an AIDS awareness campaign. [March 2007]5She is writing a guest column in the Lexington (Kentucky) Herald Leader about her beloved University of Kentucky 'Wildcats' basketball team. [March 2005]6Her paternal grandfather was the son of Sicilian-Italian immigrants. The remainder of her ancestry is English, along with smaller amounts (to varying degrees) of Scottish, Irish, German, Welsh, and Swiss-German.7A descendant on her mother's side of Edward Seymour whose sister Jane was married to Henry VIII. She also descends from John of Gaunt (who was the son of King Edward III) and his third wife Katharine De Roet Swynford.8Has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate from Kentucky [April 12, 2013].9Has co-starred with Morgan Freeman in four films (Kiss the Girls (1997), High Crimes (2002), Dolphin Tale (2011) and Olympus Has Fallen (2013)).10On January 29, 2013, Judd and Dario Franchitti announced that they were divorcing with this statement: "We have mutually decided to end our marriage. We'll always be family and continue to cherish our relationship based on the special love, integrity and respect we have always enjoyed.".11On the television show Who Do You Think You Are? (2010), Ashley wanted to learn more about her father's side of the family. She discovered that her third great grandfather was a union soldier in the Civil War who was taken prisoner twice and had his leg cut off after a battlefield injury. On another branch of her father's family, she discovered that she descends from a man who was on the Mayflower who had been imprisoned in England.12Ashley and her ex-husband, Dario Franchitti, were close friends with Dan Wheldon.13Received a Mid-Career Master's degree in Public Administration (MC/MPA) from Harvard University in May 2010; this is a one-year course of study.14She was the "Not My Job" contestant for October 9, 2009 on the National Public Radio program "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!".15Was among 4,000 students who graduated on May 6, 2007 from the University of Kentucky. Attended the university from 1986 to 1990 but left one course shy of graduation. Finished the work 17 years later and received a Bachelor's degree in French.16Her ex-husband, Indy car racer Dario Franchitti, won the Indianapolis 500 in 2007, 2010 and 2012. He is the seventh man to win three times at Indy. Franchitti is a native of Edinburgh, Scotland.17In February 2006, she started a 47-day stay for the treatment of long-term depression in a Texas rehab center. (source: Entertainment Weekly, issue #934, May 18, 2007).18Named #77 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).19Visited Guatemala from 2 May 2006 to 5 May 2006, along with Salma Hayek and Colombian singer Juanes, as part of a Youth/AIDS campaign.20Presented all the clues on the 'The World AIDS Crisis' category on the 12/2/2005 episode of the game show Jeopardy! (1984).21Was once considered for the female lead in Million Dollar Baby (2004).22Though she appeared in only two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), her character was loved by fans. Her image even appears on the Star Trek book "End Game" (Star Trek New Frontier, No 4) by Peter David.23Gave testimony to U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "Stopping Cross Generational Sex and Sexual Violence to Protect Young Women from AIDS in Developing Countries: A Call to Action", June 23, 2005, as Global Ambassador for Youth AIDS and member of the Board of Directors of Population Services International (PSI).24Worldwide Spokesperson for Youth AIDS International.25Presented to the National Press Club on June 22, 2005 as a spokesperson for Youth AIDS International.26Good friends with Salma Hayek and Joey Lauren Adams.27Publicly announced her engagement to racer Dario Franchitti; they had been engaged since December 1999. (December 2001) Married at Skibo Castle near Dornoch, in Sutherland, Scotland, the same castle that hosted Madonna's wedding to Guy Ritchie a year earlier. [April 2000]28Is an enthusiast of the 'cockapoo' breed of dog (cross-bred cocker spaniels and poodles). Has a dog named "Buttermilk" and a tabby named "Buttercup".29[1997] Became a vegetarian because a friend told her that "you eat the animal's fear".30Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2005 Razzie Award nominating ballot. (Her name was misspelled on the ballot as "Ashey Judd" by the way.) She was suggested in the Worst Actress category for her performance in the film Twisted (2004), she did not receive a nomination however.31She was able to play both a teenager and a thirty-year-old in the role of Vivian "Vivi" Walker in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002).32Drove from Memphis, Tennessee to Los Angeles, California at age 22 to begin her rise to fame.33Introduced Gloria Steinem at the March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2004.34Her first screen kiss was with Wil Wheaton on Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987).35Models a Hello Kitty t-shirt with the words "Handle with Care" printed on the front. Proceeds go to the Youth AIDS Foundation. (2003).36Turned 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.37Bakes chocolate chip cookies as a means to relieve stress.38Modeled 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.39Worked as a waitress at the trendy 'Ivy' restaurant while studying the Sanford Meisner technique of acting at Playhouse West in Los Angeles.40Ranked #20 in FHM Magazine's 100 "Sexiest Women in the World." (2002)41She is an entomologist.42A self-proclaimed feminist43Named one of the "25 Most Intriguing People" by People magazine. [1999]44Fractured her right ankle when she was thrown from a horse's saddle in Franklin, Tennessee. She was hospitalized for two days. [November 1993]45She had a role in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994), but it was left on the cutting room floor.46Could 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.47Speaks French fluently.48Replaced Jodie Foster for the lead in Double Jeopardy (1999).49Was named after Ashland, Kentucky and is an eighth-generation Kentuckian.50Her mother, Naomi Judd, has publicly objected to many of Ashley's movies because they contain either profanity, nudity, sex or violence.51Known 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.52(1996, 2000 and 2002) Named one of "The 50 Most Beautful People in the World" by People magazine.53Her father, Michael Ciminella, a marketing specialist in the horseracing industry, divorced Naomi Judd in 1972.54Mother 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.55She 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.56Her hobbies are running, rock climbing, mountain hiking, yoga, gardening and cooking.57Turned 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."

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