Elizabeth Ashley

Infobox actor
name = Elizabeth Ashley

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birthname = Elizabeth Ann Cole
birthdate = birth date and age|1939|8|30|mf=y
birthplace = Ocala, Florida, USA
occupation = Actor
yearsactive =
spouse = James Farentino (1962-1965) George Peppard (1966-1972) James McCarthy (1975-1981)
tonyawards = Featured Actress in a Play
1962 "Take Her, She's Mine"
awards = Western Heritage Awards Bronze Wrangler
1987 "Stagecoach" [cite web |url=http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/events/wha/WHA_Winners.aspx |work=National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum |title=Western Heritage Award Winners |accessdate=2008-03-20]

Elizabeth Ashley (born August 30 1939 in Ocala, Florida) is an American actress who first came to prominence in the Broadway play "Take Her, She's Mine", which earned her a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress in a Play.

She starred as Corie in the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park" and as Maggie in a successful Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", receiving Tony nominations for both performances. Ashley is in pre-production of the play "Looped" (a day in the life of Tallulah Bankhead).

Ashley has been married to actors George Peppard (the leading man in her first movie, "The Carpetbaggers", 1964) and James Farentino. In a memoir entitled "Actress. Postcards from the Road" (1978; written with Ross Firestone), she gave conspicuous exposure to a relationship with novelist Thomas McGuane. With Peppard she had a son, Christian, in 1968.

She co-starred in the TV show "Evening Shade" from 1990-1994 as "Freida Evans." In 1991, this role garnered her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Other television career includes appearances in "Miami Vice", ', "Murder, She Wrote", "Dave's World", ', and "".

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* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6242757025858771158&q=innerviews+elizabeth InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse: Elizabeth Ashley] (TV Interview)