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Ashley Suzanne Johnson (born August 9, 1983) is an American actress. She initially became known as a
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for her role as Chrissy Seaver on the sitcom ''
Growing Pains ''Growing Pains'' is an American television sitcom created by Neal Marlens that aired on ABC from September 24, 1985, to April 25, 1992. The show ran for seven seasons, consisting of 166 episodes. The series followed the misadventures of the Se ...
'' (1990–1992). As an adult, she had her most notable television roles as Amber Ahmed on '' The Killing'' (2011–2012) and FBI agent Patterson on the
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series '' Blindspot'' (2015–2020). She has appeared in films such as ''
What Women Want ''What Women Want'' is a 2000 American romantic fantasy comedy film written by Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa, and Diane Drake, directed by Nancy Meyers, and starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. The film earned mixed reviews from critics but wa ...
'' (2000), ''
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'' (2011), and ''
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'' (2012). She is also a cast member on the ''
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'' web series ''
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'' (2015–present) and became the president of the show's charity branch, the Critical Role Foundation, upon its launch in 2020. Johnson has voiced animated characters such as Gretchen Grundler on '' Recess'' (1997–2001),
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on ''
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'' (2004–2006), and ''
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'', Jinmay on ''
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'' (2004–2006),
Gwen Tennyson Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tennyson, occasionally known as Lucky Girl, is a fictional character that appears in the ''Ben 10'' franchise. The paternal first cousin and best friend of title protagonist Ben Tennyson, Gwen is a core member of Ben’s team w ...
in the ''
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'' franchise (2008–2014),
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in ''
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'' (2012), Shiseru in '' Naruto: Shippuden'' (2015), and
Tulip Olsen ''Infinity Train'' is an American animated television series created by Owen Dennis, previously a writer and storyboard artist on ''Regular Show''. four seasons have aired, plus a series of short episodes. The pilot for the series was released ...
, and
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on ''
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'' (2019–2020). Her video game roles include the voice and
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of
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in ''
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'' (2013), '' The Last of Us: Left Behind'' (2014), and ''
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'' (2020), Petra in '' Minecraft: Story Mode'' (2015–2016) and its sequel (2017), as well as the voice of Gortys in ''
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'' (2014). Among other awards and nominations, Johnson is a two-time winner of the BAFTA Games Award for Performer, winning once each for her performances in ''The Last of Us'' and ''The Last of Us: Left Behind'', making her the only person to have won the award more than once. She also received award nominations for her performance in ''The Last of Us Part II''.


Early life

Ashley Suzanne Johnson was born in
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, on August 9, 1983, the daughter of former
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Nancy () and exploration ship captain Cliff Johnson. She is of Norwegian, Scottish, and Swedish descent. She has an older brother named Chris and an older sister named Haylie, both of whom have also worked as actors. Her sister later married singer and musician
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. Her father was often away for months at a time and would bring back souvenirs from countries such as
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. He started a new job nine days after Johnson was born and subsequently moved the family to
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; they lived there for a few years before returning to California, where they settled in
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. Johnson attended school in nearby Burbank and later studied violin and piano at the International School of Music in
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. When she was 16, her father died of complications from liver and lung cancer and
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.


Career

Johnson's career began at age 6, when she played the role of Chrissy Seaver on the sitcom ''
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'' from 1990 to 1992. The character's age was accelerated from a toddler between seasons for plotting purposes. By the time she was 12, Johnson had been in the casts of eight television series. She later reprised her role as Chrissy in ''
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'' and '' Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers''. In the one season series '' Phenom'' (1993–94), she played the mischievous younger sister of a rising teenage tennis star. She appeared in the 1994 sitcom '' All-American Girl'', which also lasted for only one season. She played DJ's overbearing girlfriend Lisa in the ''
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'' episode "The Blaming of the Shrew". During the 1995–96
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lineup, she played Gracie Wallace in the sitcom '' Maybe This Time''. She played Alex Marshall in the 2000 comedy ''
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''. In 2008, she became a regular on the drama ''
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'' as Sharlee Cates. In 2009, Johnson appeared in "Omega", the first-season finale of
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's ''
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''. In 2012, she appeared in '' The Avengers'' (also directed by Whedon) as Beth, the waitress who is saved by
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. She was intended to appear in future films as his newest love interest (as implied in a brief scene in the film), but that plan was shelved and instead actress
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's
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character became involved with Rogers. Although her role was minor, the
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edition of ''The Avengers'' contains some deleted scenes that expand her role in the movie and further her interactions with Rogers. As a voice actress, Johnson's earlier roles included Sean in the U.S. dub of ''
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'', Gretchen Grundler on Disney's '' Recess'',
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in the second and fifth seasons of ''
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'', Jinmay on ''
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (commonly known by its acronym, ''SRMTHFG'', or simply, ''Super Robot Monkey Team'') is an anime-influenced television series created by Ciro Nieli, one of the directors of ''Teen Titans'', and produced by Jetix Animation Concepts with animati ...
'' and
Gwen Tennyson Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tennyson, occasionally known as Lucky Girl, is a fictional character that appears in the ''Ben 10'' franchise. The paternal first cousin and best friend of title protagonist Ben Tennyson, Gwen is a core member of Ben’s team w ...
on '' Ben 10: Alien Force'' and future versions of the ''
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'' franchise. A major voice role came when she provided the voice and
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for
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in the
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action-adventure game ''
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'', which was released to critical acclaim and commercial success. She won a video game BAFTA for Best Performer and a VGX Award for Best Voice Actress for her role in the game. On March 12, 2015, she won another BAFTA for Best Performer for the same role in the game's downloadable content, '' The Last of Us: Left Behind''. Johnson appeared in several
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shows, including playing occult specialist Morgan on the web series ''Spooked'', as well as ''
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'' and '' Dead of Winter'' on the board gaming web series ''
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''. In 2015, she began playing Pike Trickfoot on the ''
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'' show ''
Critical Role ''Critical Role'' is an American web series in which a group of professional voice actors play ''Dungeons & Dragons''. The show started streaming partway through the cast's first campaign in March 2015. Campaign one ended in October 2017 after ...
''; in 2018, she began playing Yasha Nydoorin on the show. ''Critical Role'' was both the Webby Winner and the People's Voice Winner in the "Games (Video Series & Channels)" category at the 2019
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; the show was also both a finalist and the Audience Honor Winner at the 2019
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. After becoming hugely successful, the ''Critical Role'' cast left the Geek & Sundry network in early 2019 and set up their own production company,
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. Soon after, they aimed to raise $750,000 on
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to create an animated series of their first campaign, but ended up raising over $11 million. In November 2019,
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announced that they had acquired the streaming rights to this animated series, now titled ''
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;'' Johnson reprised her role as Pike Trickfoot. In late 2020, Johnson was made president of the Critical Role Foundation, the studio's charity branch. In June 2021, Johnson was added to the cast of ''
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'', a spinoff of ''Critical Role''. Johnson previously had a photography company called Infinity Pictures, which she co-owned with Mila Shah, her childhood best friend who works as a production assistant and occasional actress. The two also co-hosted a podcast called ''Wildly Hot & Bothered'', which ran for 13 episodes from 2012 to 2014. In 2015, the two created and starred in ''Little Things'', a show about two women living in Los Angeles and their habit of making awkward everyday situations even worse; the episodes were uploaded to
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in 2018. From 2015 to 2020, she played FBI forensic specialist Patterson in the
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drama series '' Blindspot''. In 2015, she voiced Petra the Warrior in '' Minecraft: Story Mode'' by
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and
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. In 2016, she voiced
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in the pilot for ''
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'' and reprised the role for the series in 2019, additionally voicing
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and the Steward. In 2020, Johnson reprised the role of Ellie in ''
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''. For her performance, she was nominated for Best Performance at
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and the 2020 BAFTA Games Award for Best Performer in a Leading Role. Her role as Ellie included acoustic guitar covers of " Future Days" by
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, "
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" by
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, and "Through the Valley" by
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, "True Faith" by New Order. Johnson and co-star
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(in character as Ellie and
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) also performed a cover of
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's rendition of " Wayfaring Stranger" over the end credits of the game. The game itself was critically acclaimed and currently holds the record for the most Game of the Year awards received by a single game.


Personal life

In 2012, Johnson began a relationship with poet, singer, and writer Brian W. Foster, who also hosted the ''Critical Role'' after-show '' Talks Machina'' from 2016 to 2021. They announced their engagement in December 2018. She is a fan of tabletop role-playing games and video games. Johnson is a keen singer and multi-instrumentalist who plays the guitar, piano, violin, and cello, and occasionally posts covers of songs on her
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page.


Filmography


Film


Television


Video games


Web series


References


External links

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