Elizabeth Ashley is an American actress who first came to prominence in the Broadway play Take Her, She's Mine, which earned her a Tony award as Best Featured Actress in a Play.
Since then, she has worked steadily in theater and television. She starred as Corie in the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park and as Maggie in a successful Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, receiving Tony nominations for both performances. Neil Simon (1966) Neil Simon (born Marvin Simon July 4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is an American playwright and screenwriter. ... Barefoot in the Park is a 1963 Tony-nominated comedy play by Neil Simon, about a young couple and their odd neighbors in their small apartment building in Greenwich Village, New York. ... Tennessee Williams (1965) Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911–February 25, 1983), better known by the pen name Tennessee Williams, was a major American playwright and one of the prominent playwrights of the twentieth century. ... Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. ...
Ashley has been married to actors George Peppard and James Farentino. George Peppard, Jr. ... James Farentino (born February 24, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor. ...
ElizabethAshley was a film actress of the 1960s and '70s, remembered for intense, in-your-face characters who seemed "liberated" years before that term was used to describe women.
In 1977, Ashley was raped and severely beaten by three drunken men at an abandoned gas station near Bakersfield, California.
In 1999, Ashley was preparing to write her autobiography, and had all her mementos shipped from storage to the New York apartment she had rented for 22 years.
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