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Ashley Judd: Girls
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As mentioned earlier today by the Gossip Girls, Ashley Judd is taking a break from filming her new movie “Helen” in Canada for a little charity work. The High Crimes actress, who......
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An excerpt from her latest book, “Naomi's Guide to Aging Gratefully,” reveals Judd changed her name after she moved from Hollywood and became a nurse. Naomi was the name of a “slow and unlovely girl” Judd went to school with at Crabbe Grade School in Ashland, a girl Judd says, like her, “did nothing to earn the looks and IQ with which she was born.”
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Judd ... starred in 20th Century Fox's HIGH CRIMES which re-teamed her with KISS THE GIRLS co-star, Morgan Freeman. The film was written by Joseph Finder and directed by Carl Franklin. Also for 20th Century Fox, Judd starred with Greg Kinnear and Hugh Jackman in SOMEONE LIKE YOU for director, Tony Goldwyn. With a turn to the romantic comedy genre, Judd portrayed a producer of a popular day time talk show who had a romance with the show's executive producer.
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Judd's birthname is Ashley Tyler Ciminella and is sometimes called Ash or Sweet Pea as a nickname. She has appeared in movies such as Eye of the Beholder and Kiss the Girls. In 2004 she co-starred with Samuel L. Jackson and Andy Garcia in the crime/thriller Twisted.
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Next, Ashley costarred with Morgan Freeman in the thriller Kiss the Girls (1997), which raised her profile exponentially. However, her subsequent projects, The Locusts (1997), Simon Birch (1998) and Eye of the Beholder (1999), weren't quite as successful.
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"Ashley is a girl's girl. She's smart and open and doesn't seem like the type of girl who would steal your boyfriend. Men like her because she's sexy and she's not remote. She's like Sandra Bullock and Meg Ryan because she wears her heart on her sleeve. Yet, she can be wounded and recover. She's resilient."---Linda Obst, producer Cinema.com 2001
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