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Elizabeth Ann Cole (born August 30, 1939), known professionally as Elizabeth Ashley, is an American actress of theatre, film, and television. She has been nominated for three Tony Awards, winning once in 1962 for Take Her, She's Mine. Ashley was also nominated for the BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for her supporting performance in The Carpetbaggers (1964), and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1991 for Evening Shade. Elizabeth was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 24 times. She appeared in several episodes of In the Heat of the Night as Maybelle Chesboro. She also appeared in an episode of Mannix, "The Dark Hours", in 1974. Early life Ashley was born Elizabeth Ann Cole in Ocala, Florida, to music teacher Arthur Kingman Cole and the former Lucille Ayer. She grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Ashley left Louisiana State University after her freshman year and moved to New York. She studied acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre there, supporting herself by working as the Jell-O pudding girl on a television program and as a showroom model. Career Ashley won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for Take Her, She's Mine, then later starred as Corie in the original Broadway production of Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963) and, later, as Maggie in a Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1974). She received Tony nominations for both performances. She appeared on Broadway as Dr. Livingstone in Agnes of God (1982) and was a replacement in the role of Mattie Fae during the original Broadway run of August: Osage County.She has been featured in major motion pictures over five decades, including early roles in The Carpetbaggers (1964), Ship of Fools (1965), and The Third Day (1965). Her other film credits include The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971), Rancho Deluxe (1975), Coma (1978), Paternity (1981), Dragnet (1987), and Vampire's Kiss (1989), and she starred as the villain in the controversial film Windows (1980). She first appeared with Burt Reynolds in a 1969 season episode of Love, American Style, then later in the movie Paternity in 1981, as a guest star in his television series B.L. Stryker in 1989, and finally as a cast member in his final television series, Evening Shade, from 1990 to 1994 as Aunt Frieda Evans.Ashley had the role of Kate in Sandburg's Lincoln, a six-part dramatization that ran on NBC in the mid-1970s.: 926  Her other television appearances include the 1987 miniseries The Two Mrs. Grenvilles, and guest roles in Ben Casey; Route 66; Sam Benedict; Stoney Burke; The Six Million Dollar Man; Family; Miami Vice; Caroline in the City; Mission: Impossible; Murder, She Wrote; Dave's World; Law & Order; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Touched by an Angel; The Larry Sanders Show; Homicide: Life on the Street; Russian Doll; and Better Things. She was featured in 14 episodes of the HBO series Treme as Aunt Mimi. Book Ashley's autobiography Actress: Postcards from the Road was published in a hardcover edition on June 1, 1978 by M. Evans & Co (now part of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group). A paperback publication followed on October 12, 1979 through Fawcett Publications. Personal life Ashley is thrice married and divorced. Her first and second husbands were actors James Farentino and George Peppard. The latter was her leading man in her first movie, The Carpetbaggers (1964). The couple had a son, Christian. Her divorce from Peppard caused the cancellation of his television series Banacek; he quit the show to prevent her from receiving a larger percentage of his earnings as part of their divorce settlement.At 25, Ashley retired from acting "to make a home for my husband, see that he had his dinner on time, realize myself as a woman." She resumed her career four years later. She dated writer Tom McGuane and credits their liaison with reawakening a sexuality that she put to good use when she portrayed Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1974. Filmography Film Television References External links Elizabeth Ashley at IMDb Elizabeth Ashley at the Internet Broadway Database Elizabeth Ashley at the Internet Off-Broadway Database Elizabeth Ashley at Playbill Vault Elizabeth Ashley at the TCM Movie Database InnerVIEWS with Ernie Manouse: Elizabeth Ashley Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (TV Interview). Discover the Elizabeth Ashley popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Elizabeth Ashley books.

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    Come Rain Or Shine

    Susan Sallis

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    Lady Penelope

    Lena Kennedy

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    Karen Kingsbury

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    It Must Have Been the Mistletoe

    Judy Astley

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    The Winter That Made Us

    Kate Field

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    Two Weeks

    Karen Kingsbury

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    Party Games

    Jo Carnegie

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    Judy Astley

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    Horse Play

    Jo Carnegie

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    The Baxters Take Two

    Karen Kingsbury

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    Country Pursuits

    Jo Carnegie

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    Just Once

    Karen Kingsbury

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    Wild Things

    Jo Carnegie

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    All Inclusive

    Judy Astley

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    Joanne Harris

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    Joey

    Jill Biden

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    Seven For A Secret

    Judy Astley

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    The Baxters Take One

    Karen Kingsbury

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    Someone Like You

    Karen Kingsbury

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    The Right Thing

    Judy Astley

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    A Place to Begin Again

    Kate Field

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    Excess Baggage

    Judy Astley

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    No Place For A Man

    Judy Astley

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    Love Story

    Karen Kingsbury

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    Mrs. M

    Luke Slattery

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    Pleasant Vices

    Judy Astley

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    Away From It All

    Judy Astley

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    Leave the Girls Behind

    Jacqueline Bublitz

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    Diana

    Andrew Morton

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    The Above the Line Collection

    Karen Kingsbury

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    The Legacy of Halesham Hall

    Jenni Keer

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    Laying The Ghost

    Judy Astley

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    Fifty Dresses that Changed the World

    DESIGN MUSEUM ENTERPRISE LTD

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    The Complete Guide To Clinical Aromatherapy and the Essential Oils of The Physical Body

    Elizabeth Ashley

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    Naked Truths

    Jo Carnegie

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    Persuading Austen

    Brigid Coady

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    First Love, Last Love

    Katie Flynn

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    A Dream of Love

    Rosie Harris

    Her life was full of hardship and despair...When Molly's father returns from the war a broken man, the whole family is forced to move into the slums of Liverpool. Despite many diff...

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    The Baxters

    Karen Kingsbury

    Now an original series on Prime VideoThis warmhearted prequel to the “hearttugging and emotional” (RT Book Reviews) #1 New York Times bestselling Baxter Family Seriesnow a televisi...

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    Truly, Madly, Deeply

    Karen Kingsbury

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER In love for the first time, a son’s decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thoughtprovoking novel from the #1 New York ...

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    Heatstroke

    Hazel Barkworth

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    When We Were Young

    Karen Kingsbury

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    Elizabeth T. Velzy v. Estate Ashley Rodman Miller

    Second District Court of Appeal of Florida

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    A Distant Shore

    Karen Kingsbury

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    In the Summertime

    Judy Astley

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    Water Under The Bridge

    Susan Sallis

    Emmie Dart was nearly forty years old and servant to old Canon James when Walter asked her to marry him. He was the Canon's son, younger than she was, and a gentleman even though ...

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    Five Farthings

    Susan Sallis

    If you like Maeve Binchy, Fiona Valpy and Rosamunde Pilcher, you'll absolutely love this beautifully emotive and compelling novel of love and loss from The Sunday Times bestselling...

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    The Secrets of Hawthorn Place

    Jenni Keer

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