Ashley Williams

Ashley Churchill Williams (born November 12, 1978) is an American television, movie and Broadway actress. She is known for her roles in Snow, Snow 2: Brain Freeze, and Montana Sky, and for her appearances on How I Met Your Mother. --- Williams was born in Westchester County, New York. Her father, Gurney Williams, is a freelance medical journalist, and her mother, Linda, is a fundraiser for The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. She is the younger sister of Kimberly Williams-Paisley, who is also an actress, and sister-in-law to country music star Brad Paisley. 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. Williams made her big-screen acting debut in a non-speaking role in the 1993 ensemble comedy-drama Indian Summer, which also featured her sister. She then spent from 1994 to 1996 playing teenage Danielle Andropoulos on the soap opera As the World Turns. --- Williams married producer Neal Dodson on May 29, 2011.