Ashley Clements is an American actress. She starred as Lizzie Bennet in the

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'' The Lizzie Bennet Diaries''.

Career

Ashley Clements attended the

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and earned her MFA in Acting from the Old Globe. She appeared in many stage productions. She auditioned for ''The Lizzie Bennet Diaries'' in December 2011, and was selected for the lead role. ''The Lizzie Bennet Diaries'' is a web series adapted from ''

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''. ''The Lizzie Bennet Diaries'' won an Emmy Award for the "Best Original Interactive Program". In September 2014, Clements won the Best Actress in a Drama Streamy Award for her role as Lizzie Bennet. Clements has also starred in ''The Mortician'' (2012) and the web series ''Just Go with It'' (2015). She has performed in web and TV advertisements, and has narrated audiobooks, among them ''The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet''. In 2016, Clements joined the cast of ''Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party'', where she plays author

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and also appeared in the

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film ''Non-Transferable''. In 2017, she starred in the Tin Can Brothers' stage production ''The Solve-It Squad Returns'' as Gwen. She reprised the role when the show was performed Off-Broadway in New York in 2018. She played Gwen again in the Web Series “The Solve It Squad: Back In Biz” in 2022. In 2020, She starred in Ore-Ida's "Just crack an egg" commercial.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clements, Ashley Living people University of San Diego alumni Streamy Award winners American web series actresses 21st-century American actresses American stage actresses American Shakespearean actresses American voice actresses Year of birth missing (living people) Actresses from San Francisco