Ashley Benson

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Ashley Benson at the 2012 People's Choice Awards

Ashley Victoria Benson (born December 18, 1989 in Anaheim , California ) is an American actress and model . From 2010 to 2017 she played the role of Hanna Marin in the US series Pretty Little Liars .

Life

Benson was born in the pre-Christmas days of 1989 in the Anaheim Hills , an eastern part of the city of Anaheim , Orange County , where she grew up. Already at the age of three she took part in dance competitions and competitions and was particularly successful in ballet , jazz dance , lyrical dance (a mixture of the two aforementioned dance styles and contemporary dance ) and hip-hop . Furthermore, she has been an enthusiastic singer since she was a child, who has been used in various choir groups and musicals. She made her first big appearance at the age of four when she performed a solo performance in front of a congregation of 2500 people. About a year later she modeled for various dance catalogs until she got a job from the Ford Modeling Agencys at the age of eight and was then continuously used in print advertising campaigns.

Your life partner is Cara Delevingne . Benson met Delevingne in the spring of 2018 while filming Her Smell . The couple made the relationship public in June 2019.

Career

In 1999, Benson switched to acting, where she was initially used in various commercials, before making the transition to film and television a few years later. She made her first well-known appearances in 2002, when she was used in one episode of the television series Nikki , The District - Use in Washington and The West Wing - In the Center of Power .

In 2004 her first well-known engagement in a film followed, when she was even used in the movie 30 Overnight in a rather insignificant role. In the same year she was in an episode of Strong Medicine: Two Doctors Like Fire and Ice , before she made it into the extended cast of the long-term soap opera Zeit der Sehnsucht as one of the leading actresses . In the soap opera she was finally from November 12, 2004 (the first broadcast with Benson's participation) to May 2, 2007 (the last episode with Benson) in over 175 episodes as Abigail Johanna "Abby" Deveraux in use. Previously had four other actresses the role of Abby Deveraux stopped and even after the departure of Ashley Benson, who had signed with the production company of the soap opera a three-year contract in 2011 was with Kate Mansi , another actress who the role of Abby Deveraux come to Specter should be brought into the cast. Although the production phase was very time-consuming (several episodes are often shot in one day), Benson also found the time in the course of her work at Zeit der Sehnsucht to take part in a guest role in other well-known television series. Until 2007 she was seen in the series Zoey 101 (2005; 1 episode), Eine himmlische Familie (2005; 2 episodes) and OC, California (2006; 1 episode). Furthermore, she got one of the leading roles in Girls United in 2007 : Everything to Win and also had a successful 2008 behind her.

She came in 2008 as a guest star in each episode of CSI: Miami and Supernatural and was also seen in a supporting role in the films Bart Got a Room and Mother Goose Parade and in one of the leading roles in Sexy Beasts in High School . In 2009, the young actress finally followed a major role in Eastwick , where she was used in twelve of the 13 episodes produced. As successfully began in 2010, in which, inter alia with Christmas Cupid was seen in another film starring role, but also as one of the leading actresses in the cast of Pretty Little Liars managed, where she worked as It Girl Hanna Marin to see was. Together with the other " liars " Spencer Hastings, Emily Fields, Aria Montgomery and Alison DiLaurentis they uncover many secrets and try to find out who the mysterious "-A" is. In 2012 she starred alongside Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens in the feature film Spring Breakers .

Filmography

Film appearances (also short appearances)
Series appearances (also guest and short appearances)

Trivia

  • Her sister Shaylene, a little more than a year older than her, a passionate dancer, wanted to follow her younger sister into the acting field, but was not yet able to make any significant appearances in film or television.
  • She only signed the three-year contract with the production team of Zeit der Sehnsucht in April 2005 after she had already shot a few episodes of the soap opera.
  • Ashley Benson was born a premature baby (around two months early) and weighed just under a third the average weight of a newborn. Doctors initially diagnosed the little girl with a heart defect, which ultimately turned out to be wrong and she was discharged after a month in the intensive care unit and a further month under supervision in the hospital and could be brought home by her parents.
  • Together with the band NLT (an abbreviation for Not Like Them ), which also included the successful actor Kevin McHale , she was seen in the music video for the single That Girl in 2007 . In 2009 the band split up after only a few years (year of foundation: 2003) of existence.

Web links

Commons : Ashley Benson  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. Model Cara Delevingne on her sexual identity - "I didn't want to feel any different". In: Spiegel Online . August 14, 2019, accessed August 23, 2019 .
  2. According to other sources such as the IMDb only 45 episodes, but this does not agree with statements that she made in interviews