Ashley Michele Greene was born on February 21, 1987. It was announced on February 19, 2008 that she would play Alice Cullen in the Twilight movie. She originally auditioned for the role of Bella Swan, but later got a call that she had been given the role of Alice Cullen. Author Stephenie Meyer said that Greene was the actor who came closest to her vision for their character. Meyer said, "I saw a picture of her and just thought, 'You found Alice! Oh my gosh!'"^[1]

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 2 Personal life 3 Filmography 4 Awards 5 Trivia 6 References 7 External links 8 Comments

BiographyEdit

Early lifeEdit

Greene was born in Jacksonville, Florida, the daughter of Michele, 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 one sibling, an older brother named Joe, who still resides in Jacksonville with his parents.

CareerEdit

In 2005, Greene appeared on Punk'd, followed by appearances on Crossing Jordan and Desire in 2006 and King of California in 2007.

Her big break came in 2008 when she was cast as Alice Cullen in Twilight, after finishing Shark and Otis and appearing in the post-production video of Radio Free Albemuth. She went on to film Summer's Moon and Skateland, both of which were released in 2009, as well as returning as Alice Cullen in New Moon and Eclipse. She is also under contract to return as Alice in both parts of the Breaking Dawn films.

Greene will also make the move to television, having been cast in an upcoming ABC drama series called Americana in which she will portray a young up-and-coming fashion designer. She recently appeared in 3 episodes of another ABC series, Pan Am.

Personal lifeEdit

Greene is good friends with her Twilight co-stars Jackson Rathbone and Kellan Lutz, whom she knew before the filming of Twilight.

Greene's love life has also started to receive a lot of attention from the press. Her most high-profile relationship was with singer Joe Jonas, whom she dated from fall 2010 to March 2011. She is now being romantically linked to actor Reeve Carney, best known for his work in the Broadway production, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

FilmographyEdit

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2005	Punk'd	Girlfriend	1 episode
2006	MADtv	Amber	1 episode
	Crossing Jordan	Ann Rappaport	2 episodes
	Desire	Renata	7 episodes
2007	King of California	McDonald's Customer
2008	Shark	Natalie Faber	1 episode
	Otis	Kim #4	Straight-to-DVD
	Twilight	Alice Cullen	Award for Fresh Face female
2009	Summer's Moon	Summer
	The Twilight Saga: New Moon	Alice Cullen
	Radio Free Albemuth	Rhonda
	Skateland	Michelle Burkham
	A Warrior's Heart	Brooklyn
2010	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse	Alice Cullen
	The Apparition	Kelly
2011-2012	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1	Alice Cullen
	The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2	Alice Cullen	November 16, 2012
2011 2012	Butter Pan Am	Kaitlen Pickler Amanda Masen	3 episodes
	LOL: Laughing Out Loud The Boom Boom Room Americana	Ashley Adeline WInter	Post-production Filming

AwardsEdit

Year	Award	Category	Result	Role
2009	Teen Choice Awards	Choice Movie Fresh Face Female	Won	Alice Cullen in Twilight
2010	Teen Choice Awards	Scene Stealer Female	Won	Alice Cullen in The Twilight Saga: New Moon
2011	Teen Choice Awards	Scene Stealer Female	Won	Alice Cullen in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse

Trivia Edit

• Ashley's favorite book from The Twilight Saga is Twilight.
• Ashley said that when Twilight filming is over the person she'll miss the most is her character Alice.

References Edit

External linksEdit

• Ashley Greene on Wikipedia
• Ashley Greene on IMDb
• Ashley Greene official Twitter
• Ashley Greene official Facebook
• Ashley Greene official MySpace
• Ashley Greene official Hi5
• Ashley Greene official Formspring