Ashley Greene

21 Feb, 1987 | Jacksonville, Florida

Actress

Biography

Ashley Michele Greene is an American actress and model. She is known for playing Alice Cullen in the film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novels.   Greene was born in Jacksonville, Florida, to Joe and Michele Green. She grew up in Middleburg and Jacksonville, and went to the University Christian School before transferring to Wolfson High School when she was in the tenth grade. She moved to Los Angeles, California, at the age of 17 to pursue an acting career. Greene is good friends with her Twilight co-stars Kellan Lutz and Jackson Rathbone, who she knew before filming the movie. Greene initially planned to become a model, but was told that she wasn't tall enough to be a runway model and should instead focus on commercials. After taking commercial and acting classes, she fell in love with acting and realized that she preferred it over modeling. Greene thus graduated high school early at the age of 17 and moved to L.A. to pursue an acting career. Though her career is still evolving, Greene has appeared as a guest on many popular television programs, such as Punk'd and Crossing Jordan, as well as in an iPod commercial. Greene's big break came in 2008 when she was cast as Alice Cullen in Twilight, a film based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. Greene reunited with her Twilight co-star Kellan Lutz in the movie Warrior.