Ashley Madekwe and Ashley Leggat
Madekwe was raised by a mixed ethnic family. Her father is a Nigerian-Swiss, as is her mom who's English. She was born in the South London community estate, and when she was 14, attended The Brit School. In London she attended The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where her acting certificate was obtained. The stage she appeared in was several productions as a student including the role of King Henry V, as Princess Katherine and Wuthering Heights, as Catherine Earnshaw.
Madekwe started her acting career with a film titled Storm Damage. Since then, she has appeared in Teachers, Doctors Casualty and Drop Dead Gorgeous. Madekwe's breakthrough came in 2007's Woody Allen movie Cassandra's Dream. It was opposite Colin Farrell (who played the part of Cassandra) and Ewan McGrath. Following that success her role was Elisha in the one-off BBC Three drama pilot West 10 LDN which aired in 2007 and she also appeared in the six episodes of Trexx as well as Flipside as Ollie. In 2008, Madekwe landed Bambi, the lead role in ITV2's show Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Madekwe was also the lead character in How to lose friends & alienate people, which was released by Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2008. Her credits in theatre include Little Sweet Thing by Roy Williams as well as Flight Path by David Watson.
Madekwe was a part of Ashley Davenport on the ABC Drama The Beautiful Life. The two-episode show aired only for the duration of two weeks The CW and then it came to an end. In February, she was cast 2011 as Ashley Davenport on the ABC drama Revenge. Madekwe starred as a regular character on the drama series of Revenge on ABC for two seasons. It was revealed in May 2013 that she would be leaving the series following a guest episode in the first season of the third. Between 2014 and 2016she appeared in Salem in the role of Tituba. From June to July 2012, Madekwe got married to her long-time partner actor Iddo Goldberg. They've collaborated in the show Secret Diary of a Call Girl as well as he has also appeared alongside Madekwe in the television series Salem.
Ashley Leggat is a Gemini-nominated actress, who was born into a big family. She was born to Roy and Patty Leggat. Her family included the parents Roy and Patty as well as four brothers who were older than them: Brett, Todd and Bram twins, Rob, and Brett. Ashley's sports brothers were avid baseball players during the summer months and hockey in the winter. Ashley was never able to walk. She danced. At two and a half when she was a little older, she was a part of Baby Ballet. Ashley began to be a dancer after this. Ashley was a dancer who competed across all major categories until the time she graduated from high school. She was a competitor in ballet, jazz, tap, pointe and Acrobatics. She was crowned the top individualist in all the major dance competitions including, International Dance Challenge, Showstoppers 5-7-8 Showtime, Flash Dance, and Dance, Dance, Dance just to mention a few.









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