Ashley Madekwe and Ashley Leggat
  Madekwe is the daughter of a mixed-race family from South London in England. Her mother and father are both English. She was a student at The Brit School when she was fourteen years old. She graduated with a BA in acting from The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. During her time at the academy, she appeared in several stage productions, including King Henry V playing Princess Katherine as well as Wuthering Heights portraying Catherine Earnshaw.  
  Madekwe started her acting career in the movie Storm Damage. The actress has been an actor on Teachers Doctors Casualty Drop Dead Gorgeous. Madekwe scored her first motion-picture role in the Woody Allen movie Cassandra's Dream, opposite Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor. Then, she was the lead in Elisha in the BBC Three pilot drama, in West 10 LDN. In the same time, she starred as Ollie for six episodes from Trexx, Flipside, and Flipside. In 2008, she landed the role of Bambi on the ITV2 Drama series Secret Diary of a Call Girl and was featured in the three and two series. Madekwe also played the lead character in How to lose friends & betray people that was aired by Sony Pictures Entertainment back in the year 2008. Theatre credits for Madekwe include Little Sweet Thing and Flight Path.  
  Madekwe was a part of Ashley Davenport in the ABC Drama The Beautiful Life. The two-episode series aired for just two weeks on The CW and then it was cancelled. Ashley Davenport was her role in ABC's drama Revenge. Madekwe was in the episodes of the series' second season as the show's regular. But in May 2013, the news broke that Madekwe will be departing the show following her guest appearance in the first episode of the series' third season. In the TV series Salem in 2014, she portrayed Tituba between 2014 and the year 2016. In June 2012, she was married to her long-time love, actor Iddo Goldberg. Both have appeared in Secret Diary of a Call Girl. They also starred as a couple in Salem. 
Ashley Leggat grew up in Hamilton Ontario with an extended family. She was raised by her parents Roy and Patty along with four of their older brothers: Brett, Todd and Bram twins, Rob, and Brett. Ashley's brothers were athletic and played baseball in summer as well as hockey in winter. Ashley was not a walker, but she would dance. In the age of two and half, she found Baby Ballet. This was the beginning of Ashley's love for dancing. Ashley performed in competitive ballet, tap and jazz in the high divisions. Top soloists at big competitions, such as International Dance Challenge, Showstoppers 56-7-8 Showtime, Flash Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance which were all given to Ashley.
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