Ashley Love-Mills (born September 19, 1988, in
Orlando, Florida
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, is a fashion
model, actress and
beauty pageant titleholder who won the titles of
Miss North Carolina USA 2013
and placed top 10 at
Miss USA 2013.
Personal life
Ashley is originally from Orlando, Florida. The daughter of James and Gloria Mills, she moved with her family to
Raleigh, North Carolina in high school. She graduated in 2010 with a BA in Media Communications from
North Carolina State University
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with a minor in TV/film production.
She makes her home in the
Atlanta, Georgia area, and was named by ''Jezebel'' magazine (the city's lifestyle publication) as one of Atlanta's "50 Most Attractive People" in 2015 and was just most recently named by Rolling Out Magazine as one of Atlanta's Top 25 Women in November 2016.
Miss North Carolina USA
Ashley competed for the title of
Miss North Carolina USA in 2010 and placed in the top 10. On November 10, 2012, she was crowned
Miss North Carolina USA. During her tenure as Miss North Carolina USA, she created an anti-
bullying
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campaign and, with help from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, she has been able to speak with over 25,000 students statewide about the serious problems of bullying. She now resides in Atlanta, Georgia and works full-time in entertainment as an actress and model.
Miss USA
Ashley represented the state of
North Carolina at the
Miss USA 2013 pageant held at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in
Las Vegas, Nevada. She placed in the top 10, becoming the first North Carolina woman to place at the Miss USA pageant since
Kristen Dalton won the title in 2009. The eventual winner was
Erin Brady of Connecticut.
After the pageants
Following her time as Miss North Carolina USA, Ashley worked in fashion as a catalog and runway model, and acted in small parts on television and in commercials. In 2015, she caught the attention of independent filmmaker Rick Prince (of the
SyFy
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TV competition series
''FaceOff'' who cast her as the lead in his first feature film. Soon thereafter, she landed a major recurring role on
Tyler Perry's scripted drama for
TLC, ''
Too Close to Home''. She announced in 2019 that she will have a role in the upcoming
ABC TV series
The Baker & The Beauty, an adaptation of a highly successful scripted
musical comedy TV series in
Israel. Ashley mostly recently starred in A Jenkins Family Christmas as Simone on BET which premiered in December 2021.
Filmography
, 2021
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A Jenkins Family Chistmas
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''
, Simone
, Directed By Robin Givens
BET (network) and BET+
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Bet or BET may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Bet Lynch, a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street''
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References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20171111212351/https://www.ashleylovemills.com/
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1988 births
Living people
Miss North Carolina USA winners
Miss USA 2013 delegates