Birthday: April 19, 1968

Born Ashley Tyler Ciminella in Granada Hills, California, the daughter of Naomi Judd, a well-known country music singer and motivational speaker, and Michael Ciminella, Jr., a marketing analyst for the horseracing industry. She has a half-sister, Wynonna Judd, who is also a country music singer.

Judd’s parents divorced in 1972, and in 1974, her mother took her back to her own native Kentucky.
She attended twelve schools before college at the University of Kentucky but did not graduate with her class, leaving university early for an acting career in Hollywood. Working as a waitress at “The Ivy” restaurant she lived in a Malibu, California with her sister.

Judd dated baseball player Brady Anderson, singers Lyle Lovett and Michael Bolton, and actors Matthew McConaughey and Robert De Niro. She became engaged to Scottish CART, later IndyCar driver, Dario Franchitti, in December 1999, and the two were married at Skibo Castle, near Dornoch, Scotland, on December 12, 2001.

Some of her work includes: