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Ashley Suzanne Johnson (born August 9, 1983) is an American actress. She initially became known as a child actress for her role as Chrissy Seaver on the sitcom Growing Pains (1990–1992). As an adult, she had her most notable television roles as Amber Ahmed on The Killing (2011–2012) and FBI agent Patterson on the NBC series Blindspot (2015–2020). She has appeared in films such as What Women Want (2000), The Help (2011), and Much Ado About Nothing (2012). She is also a cast member on the Dungeons & Dragons web series Critical Role (2015–present) and became the president of the show's charity branch, the Critical Role Foundation, upon its launch in 2020.

Ashley Johnson
Johnson in April 2014
Born	Ashley Suzanne Johnson (1983-08-09) August 9, 1983 (age 39) Camarillo, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1990–present
Partner(s)	Brian W. Foster (2012–present; engaged)
Relatives	Jonny Lang (brother-in-law)

Johnson has voiced animated characters such as Gretchen Grundler on Recess (1997–2001), Terra on Teen Titans (2004–2006), and Teen Titans Go!, Jinmay on Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (2004–2006), Gwen Tennyson in the Ben 10 franchise (2008–2014), Renet Tilley in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Shiseru in Naruto: Shippuden (2015), and Tulip Olsen, and Lake on Infinity Train (2019–2020). Her video game roles include the voice and motion capture of Ellie in The Last of Us (2013), The Last of Us: Left Behind (2014), and The Last of Us Part II (2020), Petra in Minecraft: Story Mode (2015–2016) and its sequel (2017), as well as the voice of Gortys in Tales from the Borderlands (2014).

Among other awards and nominations, Johnson is a two-time winner of the BAFTA Games Award for Performer, winning once each for her performances in The Last of Us and The Last of Us: Left Behind, making her the only person to have won the award more than once. She also received award nominations for her performance in The Last of Us Part II.

Early life

Ashley Suzanne Johnson was born in Camarillo, California, on August 9,[1] 1983,[2] the daughter of former test pilot Nancy (née Spruiell)[3] and exploration ship captain Cliff Johnson.[4] She is of Norwegian, Scottish, and Swedish descent.[5] She has an older brother named Chris and an older sister named Haylie, both of whom have also worked as actors. Her sister later married singer and musician Jonny Lang.[6] Her father was often away for months at a time and would bring back souvenirs from countries such as Japan.[4] He started a new job nine days after Johnson was born and subsequently moved the family to Franklin, Michigan; they lived there for a few years before returning to California, where they settled in Los Angeles.[4] Johnson attended school in nearby Burbank and later studied violin and piano at the International School of Music in Glendale.[4] When she was 16, her father died of complications from liver and lung cancer and hepatitis C.[7][8]

Career

Johnson's career began at age 6, when she played the role of Chrissy Seaver on the sitcom Growing Pains from 1990 to 1992. The character's age was accelerated from a toddler between seasons for plotting purposes. By the time she was 12, Johnson had been in the casts of eight television series. She later reprised her role as Chrissy in The Growing Pains Movie and Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers. In the one season series Phenom (1993–94), she played the mischievous younger sister of a rising teenage tennis star. She appeared in the 1994 sitcom All-American Girl, which also lasted for only one season. She played DJ's overbearing girlfriend Lisa in the Roseanne episode "The Blaming of the Shrew". During the 1995–96 ABC lineup, she played Gracie Wallace in the sitcom Maybe This Time. She played Alex Marshall in the 2000 comedy What Women Want. In 2008, she became a regular on the drama Dirt as Sharlee Cates. In 2009, Johnson appeared in "Omega", the first-season finale of Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.

In 2012, she appeared in The Avengers (also directed by Whedon) as Beth, the waitress who is saved by Captain America. She was intended to appear in future films as his newest love interest (as implied in a brief scene in the film), but that plan was shelved and instead actress Emily VanCamp's Sharon Carter character became involved with Rogers.^{[citation needed]} Although her role was minor, the Blu-ray edition of The Avengers contains some deleted scenes that expand her role in the movie and further her interactions with Rogers.[2][9]

As a voice actress, Johnson's earlier roles included Sean in the U.S. dub of The First Snow of Winter, Gretchen Grundler on Disney's Recess, Terra in the second and fifth seasons of Teen Titans, Jinmay on Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! and Gwen Tennyson on Ben 10: Alien Force and future versions of the Ben 10 franchise. A major voice role came when she provided the voice and motion capture for Ellie in the PlayStation action-adventure game The Last of Us, which was released to critical acclaim and commercial success.[10] She won a video game BAFTA for Best Performer and a VGX Award for Best Voice Actress for her role in the game. On March 12, 2015, she won another BAFTA for Best Performer for the same role in the game's downloadable content, The Last of Us: Left Behind.[11]

Johnson appeared in several Geek & Sundry shows, including playing occult specialist Morgan on the web series Spooked, as well as Alhambra and Dead of Winter on the board gaming web series TableTop.[12][13] In 2015, she began playing Pike Trickfoot on the Dungeons & Dragons show Critical Role; in 2018, she began playing Yasha Nydoorin on the show.[14] Critical Role was both the Webby Winner and the People's Voice Winner in the "Games (Video Series & Channels)" category at the 2019 Webby Awards;[15] the show was also both a finalist and the Audience Honor Winner at the 2019 Shorty Awards.[16] After becoming hugely successful, the Critical Role cast left the Geek & Sundry network in early 2019 and set up their own production company, Critical Role Productions.[17][18][19][20] Soon after, they aimed to raise $750,000 on Kickstarter to create an animated series of their first campaign, but ended up raising over $11 million.[21] In November 2019, Amazon Prime Video announced that they had acquired the streaming rights to this animated series, now titled The Legend of Vox Machina;[22] Johnson reprised her role as Pike Trickfoot.[23] In late 2020, Johnson was made president of the Critical Role Foundation, the studio's charity branch.[24][25] In June 2021, Johnson was added to the cast of Exandria Unlimited, a spinoff of Critical Role.[26][27][28]

Johnson previously had a photography company called Infinity Pictures, which she co-owned with Mila Shah, her childhood best friend who works as a production assistant and occasional actress. The two also co-hosted a podcast called Wildly Hot & Bothered, which ran for 13 episodes from 2012 to 2014.[29] In 2015, the two created and starred in Little Things, a show about two women living in Los Angeles and their habit of making awkward everyday situations even worse; the episodes were uploaded to YouTube in 2018.[30]

From 2015 to 2020, she played FBI forensic specialist Patterson in the NBC drama series Blindspot.[31] In 2015, she voiced Petra the Warrior in Minecraft: Story Mode by Telltale Games and Mojang. In 2016, she voiced Tulip Olsen in the pilot for Infinity Train and reprised the role for the series in 2019, additionally voicing Lake and the Steward.

In 2020, Johnson reprised the role of Ellie in The Last of Us Part II. For her performance, she was nominated for Best Performance at The Game Awards 2020[32] and the 2020 BAFTA Games Award for Best Performer in a Leading Role.[33] Her role as Ellie included acoustic guitar covers of "Future Days" by Pearl Jam, "Take On Me" by A-ha, and "Through the Valley" by Shawn James, "True Faith" by New Order. Johnson and co-star Troy Baker (in character as Ellie and Joel) also performed a cover of Johnny Cash's rendition of "Wayfaring Stranger" over the end credits of the game.[34] The game itself was critically acclaimed and currently holds the record for the most Game of the Year awards received by a single game.[35]

Personal life

In 2012, Johnson began a relationship with poet, singer, and writer Brian W. Foster, who also hosted the Critical Role after-show Talks Machina from 2016 to 2021.[36][37] They announced their engagement in December 2018.[38][39]

She is a fan of tabletop role-playing games and video games.[40][41]

Johnson is a keen singer and multi-instrumentalist who plays the guitar, piano, violin, and cello, and occasionally posts covers of songs on her SoundCloud page.[42]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Lionheart	Nicole Gaultier
1995	Nine Months	Shannon Dwyer
1998	Dancer, Texas Pop. 81	Josie Hemphill
	The First Snow of Winter	Sean McDuck (voice)	Short film; U.S. dub
1999	Anywhere but Here	Sarah
2000	What Women Want	Alex Marshall
2001	Recess: School's Out	Gretchen Grundler (voice)
	Recess Christmas	Gretchen Grundler (voice)	Direct-to-video
	Rustin	Lee Wolford[43]
2003	The Failures	Lilly Kyle
	Recess: All Growed Down
	Recess: Taking the 5th Grade	Gretchen Grundler (voice)	Direct-to-video
2004	Killer Diller	Angie
	King of the Corner	Elena Spivak
2005	Nearing Grace	Merna Ash
2006	Fast Food Nation	Amber
	Grad Night	Student
2007	The Brothers Solomon	Patricia
2008	Columbus Day	Alana
	Otis	Riley Lawson
2009	Spread	Eva
2011	The Help	Mary Beth Caldwell
2012	The Avengers	Beth
	Much Ado About Nothing	Margaret
2015	When Marnie Was There	Emily / Miyoko (voices)
2016	Punching Henry	Danielle
2023	Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1990–1992	Growing Pains	Chrissy Seaver	Main role (seasons 6–7)
1992	Kids Incorporated	Girl in audience	Uncredited; episode: "The Boy of La Mancha"
1993	Men Don't Tell	Cindy	Television film
	The Town Santa Forgot	Granddaughter (voice)	Television special
1993–1994	Phenom	Mary Margaret Doolan	Main role
1994	All-American Girl	Casey Emmerson	Main role
1995	Annie: A Royal Adventure!	Annie Warbucks	Television film
	Roseanne	Lisa	Episode: "The Blaming of the Shrew"
	What a Cartoon!	Mina (voice)	Episode: "Mina and the Count: Interlude with a Vampire"	[44]
1995–1996	Maybe This Time	Gracie Wallace	Main role
1996–1999	Jumanji	Peter Shepherd / Robo-Peter (voices)	40 episodes
1997	Moloney	Kate Moloney	3 episodes
	Wings	Rebecca	Episode: "Ms. Write"
1997–2001	Recess	Gretchen Grundler (voice)	129 episodes
1998	ER	Dana Ellis	2 episodes
	Kelly Kelly	Maureen Kelly	Main role
2000	The Growing Pains Movie	Chrissy Seaver	Television film
2001	What About Joan	Jody Bradford	Episode: "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Joan"
2002	Ally McBeal	Serena Feldman	Episode: "Heart and Soul"
	The Guardian	Betsy Fortunato	Episode: "Sacrifice"
	Lloyd in Space	Violet (voice)	4 episodes
	Providence	Daphne Wallace	3 episodes
	Roswell	Eileen Burrows	2 episodes
	Touched by an Angel	Natalie Tate	Episode: "Bring On the Rain"
2003–2004	Married to the Kellys	Shari	2 episodes
2004	Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers	Chrissy Seaver	Television film
2004–2006	Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!	Jinmay (voice)	12 episodes
	Teen Titans	Terra (voice)	7 episodes
2004–2010	King of the Hill	Emily / Jamie (voices)	7 episodes
2005	The X's	Kimla (voice)	Episode: "License to Slumber/Three Days of the Coin Op"
2006	Lilo & Stitch: The Series	Gretchen Grundler (voice)	Episode: "Lax: Experiment 285"
2007	Heartland	Rebecca Colton	Episode: "Mother & Child Reunion"
	Monk	Susie the Maid	Episode: "Mr. Monk Is at Your Service"
2007, 2014	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Dreama Little / brothel girl	2 episodes
2008	Dirt	Sharlee Cates	Recurring role (season 2)
	The Mentalist	Clara Tennant	Episode: "Seeing Red"
	The Middleman	Eleanor Draper	Episode: "The Ectoplasmic Panhellenic Investigation"
	Raising the Bar	Elise Denton	Episode: "Hang Time"
2008–2010	Ben 10: Alien Force	Gwen Tennyson / Cicely (voices)	45 episodes
2009	Cold Case	Graces Stearns (1966)	Episode: "The Crossing"
	Dollhouse	Wendy / Caroline / Hayden Leeds	2 episodes
2010	Funny or Die Presents	Girlfriend	1 episode
	Lie to Me	Valerie	Episode: "Beat the Devil"
2010–2018	Drunk History	Various	3 episodes
2010–2012	Ben 10: Ultimate Alien	Gwen Tennyson (voice)	52 episodes
2011	In Plain Sight	Sarah Collins / Sarah Peterschwim	Episode: "Something A-mish"
2011–2012	The Killing	Amber Ahmed	Recurring role (seasons 1); special guest (season 2)
2011–2013	Pound Puppies	Amelia / Toyo / Gina / Giblet / Kid #1 (voices)	6 episodes
2012	Drop Dead Diva	Veronica Kramer	Episode: "Road Trip"
	Private Practice	Kelly	Episode: "The Time Has Come"
2012–2014	Ben 10: Omniverse	Gwen Tennyson (voice)	21 episodes
2013	Masters of Sex	Flora Banks	Episode: "Fallout"
2013–2019	Teen Titans Go!	Terra (voice)	6 episodes
2014	Garfunkel and Oates	Jane	Episode: "Speechless"
2015	Naruto: Shippuden	Shiseru (voice)	6 episodes; English dub	[45]
	Stalker	Stephanie Beekman	Episode: "My Hero"
2015–2017	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Renet (voice)	6 episodes	[44]
2015–2020	Blindspot	William Patterson	Main role
2019–2020	Infinity Train	Tulip Olsen / Lake / the Steward (voices)	20 episodes	[46]
2021	Close Enough	Kristen (voice)	Episode: "Where'd You Go, Bridgette?"
	Family Guy	Lisa (voice)
2022	The Legend of Vox Machina	Pike Trickfoot (voice)		[47][48]
2023	The Last of Us

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2005	Teen Titans	Terra
2008	Ben 10: Alien Force	Gwen Tennyson
2009	Ben 10 Alien Force: Vilgax Attacks	Gwen Tennyson
2010	Ben 10 Alien Force: The Rise of Hex	Gwen Tennyson
	Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction	Gwen Tennyson
2011	Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion	Gwen Tennyson
2013	Marvel Heroes	Spider-Woman	Uncredited
	The Last of Us	Ellie	Voice and motion capture VGX Award for Best Voice Actress 2013 BAFTA Games Award for Best Performer[44]
2014	The Last of Us: Left Behind	Ellie	Also motion capture 2014 BAFTA Games Award for Best Performer[49]
	Infamous First Light	Jenny	[44]
	Tales from the Borderlands	Gortys / Hyperion System Voice	"Hyperion System Voice" is credited as "Additional Voices"
	Final Fantasy Explorers	Additional voices	English version
2015	Skylanders: SuperChargers	Gadfly Glades Collector
	Lego Dimensions	Terra	Uncredited
	Minecraft: Story Mode	Petra	[44]
2016	The Witness	Additional voices
	Lego Marvel's Avengers	Beth the Waitress	[50]
2017	Minecraft: Story Mode – Season Two	Petra
2018	Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire	Narrator / Pike Trickfoot / Ydwin	Critical Role DLC[51][52]
2020	The Last of Us Part II	Ellie	Voice and motion capture Nominated for Best Performance at The Game Awards 2020[53] Nominated for 2020 BAFTA Games Award for Best Performer in a Leading Role[54] 2021 NAVGTR Award for Outstanding Performance in a Drama, Lead[55]

Web series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013–2015	Tabletop	Herself	2 episodes
2015–present	Critical Role	Pike Trickfoot (campaign 1) Yasha Nydoorin (campaign 2) Fearne Calloway (campaign 3)	RPG web series[56][57]
2020	Animal Talking with Gary Whitta	Herself (voice)	1 episode[58]
2021	Exandria Unlimited	Fearne Calloway	8 episodes[26][27][28]

References

External links

• Ashley Johnson at IMDb 
• Ashley Johnson on Instagram
• Ashley Johnson on Twitter

На других языках

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[de] Ashley Johnson

Ashley Suzanne Johnson (* 9. August 1983 in Camarillo, Kalifornien) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Synchronsprecherin.

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- [en] Ashley Johnson (actress)

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[es] Ashley Johnson

Ashley Johnson (Camarillo, California; 9 de agosto de 1983) es una actriz estadounidense, más conocida por su papel de dos temporadas como Chrissy Seaver en el programa de televisión Growing Pains y más recientemente, por su papel como Ellie en el videojuego The Last of Us. Actualmente interpreta a la agente especial Patterson Leung en la serie Blindspot y forma parte del cast de Critical Role.

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[ru] Джонсон, Эшли

Эшли Сьюзен Джонсон (англ. Ashley Suzanne Johnson; род. 9 августа 1983) — американская актриса. Наиболее известна своими ролями в фильмах «Самоволка», «Чего хотят женщины», а также игрой и озвучиванием персонажа Элли в серии компьютерных игр The Last of Us.

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