Biography
Elizabeth Ann Cole, 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. Ashley 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. She is a 2024 inductee into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Awards & recognition
- Theatre World Award · 1962
- Tony Award — Best Featured Actress in a Play · 1962
- Golden Raspberry Award — Worst Supporting Actress · 1981 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Actress in a Play · 1975 · nominated
- Tony Award — Best Actress in a Play · 1964 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
The Big Easy
Homicide: Life on the Street
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Hey Arnold!
The Bold Type
The Larry Sanders Show
Treme
In the Heat of the Night
Mission: Impossible
Murder, She Wrote
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Russian Doll
Miami Vice
Women of the House
Law & Order
One of My Wives Is Missing
Danger Man
Better Things
Touched by an Angel
Family
Hunter
Ocean's Eight
Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story
A Man of Passion
Cagney & Lacey
Police Story
What's My Line?
Saturday Night Live
Ironside
Coma
Mannix
Stoney Burke
The Ed Sullivan Show
Route 66
Ship of Fools
Hey Arnold! The Movie
The Virginian
The Love Boat
Dragnet
Split Image
Vampire's Kiss
The Carpetbaggers
92 in the Shade
A Fire in the Sky
The Cake Eaters
The F.B.I.
Stagecoach
Rancho Deluxe
Golden Needles
Paternity