Occupation Actress Years active 1986–present | Name Ashley Holliday Role Actress | |
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Movies and TV shows Hollywood Heights, The Man Who Shook the Hand, Just Cause Profiles | ||
Ashley Holliday Interview: What's in Her Purse with the Hollywood Heights Star!
Ashley Holliday Tavares is an American actress best known for playing Chloe Delgado on the 2010 ABC Family series Huge and Melissa Sanders on the 2012 Nick at Nite serial drama Hollywood Heights.
Contents
- Ashley Holliday Interview Whats in Her Purse with the Hollywood Heights Star
- Ashley holliday talks hollywood heights and james franco
- Personal life
- Career
- References
Ashley holliday talks hollywood heights and james franco
Personal life
Tavares was born Ashley Popelka in Burbank, California, and is of Cape Verdean and Czech Republic descent. Her last name Popelka translates to "Cinderella" in Czech. Her father, 'Butch' Feliciano Vierra Tavares, Jr. is one of five Cape Verdean-American brothers who formed the Grammy winning R&B, funk and soul music group Tavares.
Since her mother, Jacqueline Popelka, is a production coordinator, Holliday spent her youth traveling and living all over the world while her mom worked on different movies, including three years in Jamaica. When a film brought Jacqueline back to Los Angeles, Holliday attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, where she studied Theater. She then trained at The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, until she moved back to Los Angeles where she studied at Playhouse West, Lesly Kahn Institute and John Rosenfeld Studios.
Career
Holliday began her career at an early age, as the daughter of Stanley Tucci's character on the Miami Vice episode "Baby Blues" in 1986. Her breakout role came in 2010, when Holliday booked a leading role in the ABC Family series Huge. In 2012, she played quirky Melissa Sanders on TeenNick's Hollywood Heights, followed by Rita in the film The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez, and a cameo in Team Unicorn's music video "For the Win". In 2013, Holliday appeared in two episodes of the Pretty Little Liars spin-off, Ravenswood. Most recently, she starred as Diane in the film Hanky Panky, based on the award-winning short by the same name.
