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Ashley Greene: Humble Girl from Jacksonville who Rose to Stardom
 Ashley
Michele Greene is an American actress and model, best known for playing Alice
Cullen in the film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels. Greene was
born in Jacksonville, Florida, and is the daughter of Michele (n�e Tatum), who
works in insurance, and Joe Greene, a U.S. Marine who now owns his own concrete
business. She grew up in Middleburg and Jacksonville, and went to University
Christian School before transferring to Wolfson High School when she was in
tenth grade.
She moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of 17 to pursue an acting
career. Greene has an older brother named Joe, who still resides in Jacksonville
with their parents.
Greene is good friends with her Twilight co-stars, particularly Kellan Lutz and
Jackson Rathbone whom she knew before filming of the series began. Greene has
stated that she grew up watching football and is a Florida Gators fan. She was
also seen attending a Green Bay Packers game against the New York Giants with
then boyfriend Joe Jonas and Jessica Szohr at Lambeau Field in 2010. In 2009,
nude self-portraits of Greene were leaked onto the internet. Her attorneys
threatened to sue various websites that published the pictures.
She initially planned to become a model, but was told that she was not tall
enough at 5'5" to be a fashion model and should instead focus on acting in
commercials. After taking commercial and acting classes, she fell in love with
acting and realized that she preferred it over modeling. Greene graduated from
high school early and moved to L.A. to pursue an acting career.
Since then, she has appeared as a guest on such television programs, as Punk'd
and Crossing Jordan. Greene's big break came in 2008 when she was cast as Alice
Cullen in Twilight, a film based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie
Meyer. She reprised her role as Alice in the 2009 sequel to Twilight, The
Twilight Saga: New Moon, 2010's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, 2011's The Twilight
Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, 2012's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2.
Greene portrayed Michelle Burkham in the drama film Skateland, which premiered
at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
She reunited with her Twilight co-star Kellan Lutz in the movie A Warrior's
Heart and also stars in thriller film, Summer's Blood, as well as the Dark
Castle Entertainment production The Apparition, which began filming on February
1, 2010. Appearing nude in a bodypainted bikini, Greene posed for SoBe
advertisements that ran in the 2010 issue of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
Edition. She received "The Style Icon Award" at Hollywood Life�s Young Hollywood
Awards this year. Greene was also presented an award from the PETA foundation
for representing Avon and their no testing on animals policy.
 Greene presented an award at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards on September 12,
2010. Greene appeared alongside Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore in 2012 drama film
LOL.
In 2013, Ashley Greene starred in the historical film CBGB about the former
Manhattan music club with the same name.
Awards
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2008 Teen Choice Awards Movie Fresh Face Female Twilight Won
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2009 Teen Choice Awards Scene Stealer Female The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Won Shared with cast
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2009 Teen Choice Awards Most Fanatic Fans The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Won Shared with cast
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2010 Teen Choice Awards Scene Stealer Female The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Won Shared with cast
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2012 Teen Choice Awards Scene Stealer Female The Twilight Saga: Breaking
Dawn - Part 1 Won
Shared with cast
Ashley Greene is a rising young star, who will have her big break playing Alice
Cullen in Twilight due out this winter 2008. Greene is a southern girl from
Jacksonville, Florida, who moved to Los Angeles fresh out of high school to
pursue an acting career. She broke into Hollywood with roles in popular
television shows including Ashton Kutcher�s prank show Punk�d and Fox�s MADtv.
Ashley is a former model. She has done modeling work for Fenk Junk, Vision NYC,
Sutra, Mark Cosmetics, SoBe Lifewater and has been photographed by Carlos
Armando for some campaigns. Her acting career started in 2006 when she guest
starred on the television shows Crossing Jordan, playing Ann Rappaport opposite
Jill Hennessy and Miguel Ferrer, and Shark, in which she was only seen in brief
shots in the background - but bigger parts soon followed. Ashley got a regular
gig on the soap Desire, but the series was cancelled after just one season.
Stepping into the film scene, Ashley had a bit part in 2007�s King of
California. Up next for her is thriller Otis and the sci-fi drama Radio Free
Albemuth, where she plays Rhonda - and, of course, the highly anticipated
Twilight movie.
Based on the beloved novel, Twilight is about a teenage girl, Bella, who risks
everything when she falls in love with Edward Cullen, a vampire. It will be
helmed by Thirteen director Catherine Hardwicke and also stars Kristen Stewart
as Bella, Robert Pattinson as Edward, Peter Facinelli as Carlisle, Elizabeth
Reaser as Esme and Nikki Reed as Rosalie. Ashley Greene will play one of the
vampires, Alice Cullen.
Alice shares many of the physical traits associated with Twilight vampires, such
as inhuman beauty, pale skin, golden eyes which deepen to black depending on
thirst, and deep, purple shadows under her eyes. She is described as being
small, 4'10?, with petite, �pixie-like� features. Her hair is described as
cropped, spiky, and black. She carries herself with the grace of a dancer when
walking, and it is mentioned that with her agility she could make even a
ballerina jealous.
�The auditioning process was really long for me�. a couple of months. And I
don�t really know the people considered. I try not to focus on that stuff. And I
knew about a month before I flew out,� Ashley says on her auditioning
experience.
Certainly Twilight has opened a lot of doors for this rising talent. She was
seen in the 2009 thriller called Summer�s Blood. Playing alongside Peter Mooney
and Stephen McHattie. After that she reprised her role as Alice Cullen in New
Moon and Eclipse and Breaking Dawn: Part 1 & 2 coming in 2011 and 2012.
 She starred in the movie LOL: Laughing Out Loud together with Miley Cyrus and in
the comedy movie Butter with Hugh Jackman, Olivia Wilde, Jennifer Garner and
Alicia Silverstone. She also starred in the thriller movie The Apparition
together with Tom Felton (Harry Potter) and Sebastian Stan.
Ashley Greene said " I love love, love Audrey Hepburn. She�s so timeless and
classically beautiful. Geena Davis is also great� Long Kiss Goodnight was a
favorite of mine for a while. Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep and Felicity Huffman
are some others I look up to."
Ashley Greene said on how her life has changed since �Twilight� debuted. "My
whole outlook has changed. You go into rooms with producers and directors and
you�re so nervous, and you�re thinking these are big, bad studio heads and they
want you to fail. Then you do something like this, and you can walk into these
rooms and they want to know what you think, what you want to do, how you view
their script. I go into these rooms now, sit down, and have conversations with
these people, which is what I should have been doing from the beginning. It�s a
different world.
My life is a crazy whirlwind right now. I�m just working and working and
working. With the success of the film, there are a lot of things you get
offered, places people want you to go just to have you there, and I really
haven�t been able to do that. Between this and other films, I�ve just been
working. You know, I was a struggling actor, and I was modeling to pay bills. I
was worried about rent, and I was living with two other people. To go from that
to me going, �I need a break, I need a day off,� is a crazy thing. It�s good,
and it�s tiring, but my mom being able to see what I�m doing every single day on
the Internet? It�s crazy! From nobody really knowing or really caring who you
are or what you do to suddenly making headlines with what you�re eating, where
you�re going, who you�re hanging out and having coffee with is nuts. But I guess
it helps when I�m walking into these rooms with directors and producers, all of
a sudden they know who I am. That�s the craziest thing".
Ashley Greene said on how she got the role of Alice Cullen in �Twilight�. " It
was a really long, tedious process. I hadn�t read the books, but I read them
because they wouldn�t release the script or breakdown. My manager told me to go
into the audition and to do a good job and not to mess up because the casting
directors were sticklers. So, I was like, �How am I supposed to do a good job? I
don�t even know what I�m supposed to be playing!� I originally auditioned for
Bella, and so I read the first book and kind of fell in love with it. I went in
and auditioned and actually they called me back in and said, �No, you�re not
right for Bella,� so I was bummed, and then they brought me back for Alice. I
worked more on it - that was all I did for a couple of days before I went in. I
came in probably like five times before I actually got the role - and then I
went home for Christmas and literally just had to wait and wait. I thought that
I didn�t get it again, and then I got the call that I was Alice and I freaked
out and called my dad and mom".
Interesting facts about Ashley Greene
 Has one sibling named Joe, who still resides in Jacksonville, along with her
still happily married parents, Joe and Michele.
She graduated high school early and moved from Jacksonville Florida to Hollywood
at age 17.
She adores and respects Audrey Hepburn, and as a result one of her all time
favorite movie is Breakfast At Tiffany�s.
Greene lives in Los Angeles. In her free time, she enjoys reading, as well as
surfing when she gets the chance.
Is the face of StopStaring.com, a website that sells retro-style dresses.
Is the face of SoBe Lifewater and Mark Cosmetics.
Attended Samuel W. Wolfson High School in Jacksonville, Florida.
Studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute.
Ashley had to learn to pitch like a professional for the baseball scene in
Twilight.
Ashley wanted to be a model but got told that she was too short and was advised
to take up acting.
Was considered one of the 55 faces of the future by Nylon Magazine�s Young
Hollywood Issue.
Ashley Greene has been selected by Maxim.com in 2013 list of Top 100 hottest
women in the world.
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Dated 16 November 2013
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