Ashley Park
Ashley Park was born in Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, United States on June 6th, 1991 and is the Stage Actress. At the age of 32, Ashley Park biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Ashley Jini Park (born June 6, 1991) is an American actress, dancer, and singer.
She is best known for her appearances on Broadway, as Tuptim in the 2015 revival of The King and I, and for originating Gretchen Wieners' role in the 2018 Tony-nominated musical Mean Girls, for which she received Drama Desk Award and Tony Award nominations.
Early life and education
Park was born in Glendale, California, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Andrew and Sara Park are her parents, and Audrey is her younger sister. She is of Korean origins and is her second cousin of actor Justin H. Min.
Park was enrolled in dance classes at the Oceanside Dance Academy at age three and began piano lessons at age five. Park's passion for performing led her to her involvement in Ann Arbor's community kids' theater throughout middle school and high school. In 2003, she attended Interlochen Summer Arts Camp. Park attended Pioneer High School, where she performed in both theatre and choir. She also co-founded a women's a cappella club at Pioneer High School, Soulfege, who came second at a national tournament in 2009.
Park was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in her sophomore year in high school and was hospitalized for eight months. Park was a recipient of a "wish" from the Make-A-Wish Foundation for which she and her family travelled to New York City and saw the Broadway productions of A Chorus Line, The Lion King, Spring Awakening, and Wicked. "My cancer experience, I believe, is the reason I do theater." "I think the reason I do theater is that I am out of the hospital," she says in interviews. Park returned to high school after chemotherapy, and three months later, she was cast as the lead role of Millie Dillmount in her high school's production of Thoroughly Modern Millie. "Putting on a wig and putting on shoes and costumes, as well as being a different individual was the only way to escape from being just the girl with cancer," Park says during this period.
She graduated from Pioneer High School in 2009 and then attended the University of Michigan, earning a BFA in musical theatre from the School of Music, Theater, and Dance in 2013. She co-founded the Michigan Performance Outreach Workshop during her undergraduate years (MPOW).
Career
In the summer of 2009, Park was cast as Yvonne and an ensemble member in the Music Theatre Wichita production of Miss Saigon in Wichita, Kansas. Park spent the next two summer seasons performing in various productions at the Benedum Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera during which she earned her Equity card.
Park made her Broadway debut as a member of the ensemble in Mamma Mia! at the Broadhurst Theatre on February 17, 2014. She left the production on September 21, 2014. From October 2014 to January 2015, Park portrayed Gabrielle in the original U.S. national touring company of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella.
Park then returned to Broadway on April 16, 2015, in her first leading role as Tuptim in the 2015 revival of The King and I at the Vivian Beaumont Theater and remained with the production until its closing on June 26, 2016. Park was featured as a principal soloist on the cast recording for which she was nominated for a Grammy Award.
In February 2017, she appeared in the Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George as Celeste #1 and Theresa alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, Annaleigh Ashford, and Ruthie Ann Miles.
In the fall of 2017, Park portrayed MwE in the off-Broadway musical KPOP at the Ars Nova. She was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and a Drama League Award and also won a Lucille Lortel Award for this role. Park left the production in October 2017 due to her beginning rehearsals for the Mean Girls out-of-town tryout and was replaced by Marina Kondo.
Park starred as Gretchen Wieners in the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical Mean Girls, written by Tina Fey with music and lyrics by Jeff Richmond and Nell Benjamin, respectively. The show had its world premiere as an out-of-town tryout at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., from October 31, 2017, to December 3, 2017, in which Park originated the role of Gretchen Wieners. The musical, which is based on the film of the same name, began previews on March 12, 2018, and officially opened on Broadway on April 8, 2018, at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City. Park received nominations for numerous awards for her role as Gretchen Wieners, including nominations for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, a Drama League Award, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. In May 2018 Park was awarded the Clarence Derwent Award, an honor "given to the most promising female and male performers" in New York City, by the Actors’ Equity Foundation, along with Sean Carvajal. On March 10, 2019, Park left the production and was replaced by Krystina Alabado.
In June 2019, it was announced that Park would headline a "revamped" production of Thoroughly Modern Millie from May 6–10, 2020, for New York City Center Encores!. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the production was cancelled, and ticket refunds were offered to the public.
Park was cast in August 2019 in the role of Mindy Chen in Netflix's Emily in Paris, opposite Lily Collins. The series premiered on October 2, 2020, and was renewed for a second season on November 11, 2020. Park's character covered "La Vie en Rose" in the first season of Emily in Paris. It was the #1 downloaded TV song for that week.
In October 2020 it was announced that Park would be heard as Kaye Fields in As the Curtain Rises, an original podcast soap opera from the Broadway Podcast Network.
On December 28, 2020, it was announced that Park would star as Colette in a benefit concert presentation of Ratatouille the Musical, an internet meme that originated on TikTok, inspired by the 2007 Disney/Pixar film. The concert streamed exclusively on TodayTix on January 1, 2021.
Park is set to star in Crazy Rich Asians writer Adele Lim's directorial debut. The untitled R-rated comedy "follows four Asian American women as they travel through Asia in search of one of their birth mothers."