Ashlie Rhey, a talented actress and comedienne, was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, and spent her childhood in Navarre, Ohio, where she graduated from Fairless High School with the Class of 1979.
As a model, Ashlie was cast in her first acting role while working with Wilhelmina Models, portraying a movie starlet alongside Edd Byrnes of 77 Sunset Strip (1958) in a commercial.
Her modeling career took her to Europe, and upon her return to the west coast, she began pursuing her career as an actress. Her theatrical agent received a casting call from Playboy, landing Ashlie in seven newsstand specials and a pictorial for Playboy Australia. She went on to fill numerous roles for film and television productions for Playboy Enterprises.
During her studies for acting, Ashlie also worked as a hand model and body double. She famously poked the Pillsbury Doughboy and was the hands of supermodels Rachel Hunter, Niki Taylor, and others in their cosmetics commercials. Kelly Lynch, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Valeria Golino are a few of the actresses for whom Ashlie body-doubled in their movie posters and video box covers.
Ashlie's early roles included Shannon Thronton in the Telley Award-winning Soap Opera Secrets, followed by small roles and her first starring role in the independent horror film The Summoned (1992). Her next break came when she was cast as the star of Bikini Drive-in (1995),subsequently co-starring as April in the sequel Mystery On Makeout Mountain (1997) and landing the role of Tye Dye in Babe Watch: Forbidden Parody (1996).
In 2008, Ashlie began performing stand-up comedy for the Spiritual, but not Religious in Sanctimonious Comedy, and she created, wrote, produced, directed, and starred in the sitcom pilot Daisy Power (2008).
Alongside her performance work, Ashlie has followed a lifelong interest in alternative medicine, spiritual growth, and the healing arts. She is a Reiki Master, an L.M.T., and a certified Laughter Yoga Leader. Ashlie also studied at the School for Enlightenment and Healing and follows a path of personal transformation.
