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Hello fans,

I always think of Ashley Johnson as the little curly haired girl on the TV show Growing Pains. She has obviously grown up over the years, so let's catch up with her and what she is doing now!

Take care,
Melissa

Questions? Comments? Email Melissa

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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":

Tracy Scoggins: She has appeared in "The Colbys", "Babylon 5", and other TV series and movies, she played Kat Grant in the series "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman"

Nicolas Roeg: Director, "The Man Who Fell to Earth", "Castaway"

Jack Nance: He appeared in many of David Lynch's movies, including starring in "Eraserhead"

(Answer at the bottom)
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Ashley Johnson
Learn More About Ashley Johnson on Celebrity Nooz

BIRTH DATE: August 9, 1983, Camarillo, California

CLAIM TO FAME: Johnson is best known for her role as Chrissy Seaver in the TV show Growing Pains.

FAMILY LIFE: She has an older brother, Chris, who worked on the television show, The District. Her older sister, Haylie Johnson is best known for her role as Haylie on Kids Incorporated.

INFO: By the time she was twenty-one, Johnson had already been part of the casts of eight different television series. Her career began when she won the role of Chrissy Seaver on the TV show Growing Pains at the age of six. She was on the show from 1990-1992. She went on to appear in a number of TV series and movies, including the 2000 comedy What Women Want as Mel Gibson's daughter.

TRIVIA: Graduated from high school when she was 15.

Attended the International School of Music, where she studied violin and piano; she also plays guitar and cello.

Loves to snowboard and surf, was taught to sail by her father.

Is an avid gun shooter.

Her father passed away from cancer in July of 2000.

WHERE IS SHE NOW: From 2011-2012, she appeared on the drama series The Killing as Amber Ahmed. In 2012, she appeared in The Avengers as a waitress who is saved by Captain America. The Blu-Ray edition of the film contains a deleted scene that expands her role in the movie, and may lead to a returning role as a friend or love interest for Captain America.

Johnson has also found success as a voice actress. She voiced Gretchen Grundler on the Walt Disney TV animated series Recess, Terra in the Teen Titans animated series during the show's second season, Jinmay on Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! and Gwen Tennyson on Ben 10 Alien Force and in future variations of the Ben 10 franchise. Johnson is set to co-star in the upcoming PlayStation exclusive The Last of Us.

Johnson and her sister Haylie are former Miss Jr. Michigan titleholders, and they currently play in a band together.

She also co-runs the photography company Infinity Pictures, with her friend, production assistant Mila Sha.

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CREDITS:

2014 Paradox (pre-production)...Sophie

2013 The Last of Us (Video Game) (post-production)...Ellie

2012 Ben 10: Omniverse (TV series)...Gwen Tennyson

2012 The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange (TV series)...Jenny Applesauce

2012/I Much Ado About Nothing...Margaret

2012 Drop Dead Diva (TV series)...Veronica Kramer
Road Trip (2012)

2011-2012 Pound Puppies (TV series)...Gina / Toyo

2011-2012 The Killing (TV series)...Amber Ahmed

2012 The Avengers...Waitress

2010-2012 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (TV series)...Gwen Tennyson / Clockwork / Diamondhead / ...

2012 Private Practice (TV series)...Kelly
The Time Has Come (2012)

2012 Here Comes the Night...Claire

2011 The Help...Mary Beth Caldwell

2011 In Plain Sight (TV series)...Sarah Collins / Sarah Peterschwim
Something A-mish (2011)

2011 Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion (Video Game)...Gwen Tennyson (voice)

2010 Alleged...Rose Elizabeth Williams

2010 Christmas Cupid (TV movie)...Jenny

2010 Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: Cosmic Destruction (Video Game)...Gwen Tennyson (voice)

2010 Drunk History (TV series)...Elizabeth Hamilton
Drunk History Vol. 1: Featuring Michael Cera (2010)

2010 Lie to Me (TV series)...Valerie
Beat the Devil (2010)

2010 Ben 10 Alien Force: The Rise of Hex (Video Game)

2004-2010 King of the Hill (TV series)...Emily / Jamie

2008-2010 Ben 10: Alien Force (TV series)...Gwen Tennyson / Alien Girl / Alien Mom / ...

2010 Funny or Die Presents... (TV series)...Girlfriend
Episode #1.1 (2010)

2009 Ben 10: Alien Force - Vilgax Attacks (Video Game)...Gwen Tennyson (voice)

2009 Cold Case (TV series)...Grace Stearns '66
The Crossing (2009)

2009 Dollhouse (TV series)...Caroline / Hayden Leeds / Wendy

2009 Spread...Eva

2009 FusionFall (Video Game)...Gwen Tennyson (voice)

2008 The Mentalist (TV series)...Clara Tennant
Seeing Red (2008)

2008 Ben 10: Alien Force (Video Game)...Gwen Tennyson (voice)

2008 Raising the Bar (TV series)...Elise Denton
Hang Time (2008)

2008 The Middleman (TV series)...Eleanor Draper
The Ectoplasmic Panhellenic Investigation (2008)

2008 Columbus Day...Alana

2008 Dirt (TV series)...Sharlee Cates

2008 Otis...Riley Lawson

2008 Pie'n Burger (short)...Holly

2007 The Brothers Solomon...Patricia

2007 Heartland (TV series)...Rebecca. Colton
Mother & Child Reunion (2007)

2007 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV series)...Dreama Little
Ending Happy (2007)

2007 Monk (TV series)...Susie the Maid
Mr. Monk Is at Your Service (2007)

2006 Grad Night...Student

2006 Fast Food Nation...Amber

2006 Lilo & Stitch: The Series (TV series)...Gretchen Grundler
Lax: Experiment # 285 (2006)

2004-2006 Teen Titans (TV series)...Terra / School Girl

2006 The Pity Card (short)...Gretel

2004-2005 Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! (TV series)...Jinmay

2005 Teen Titans (Video Game)...Terra (voice)

2005 Nearing Grace...Merna Ash

2004 Growing Pains: Return of the Seavers (TV movie)...Chrissy Seaver

2004 King of the Corner...Elena Spivak

2004 Killer Diller...Angie

2004 Sweden, Ohio (TV movie)

2003-2004 Married to the Kellys (TV series)...Shari

2003 Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade (video)...Gretchen (voice)

2003 Recess: All Growed Down (video)...Gretchen (voice)

2003 Kidz History: The Revolutionary War (video)...Colonist

2003 The Failures...Lilly Kyle

2002 The Guardian (TV series)...Betsy Fortunato
Sacrifice (2002)

2002 Touched by an Angel (TV series)..Natalie
Bring on the Rain (2002)

2002 Providence (TV series)...Daphne Wallace

2002 Ally McBeal (TV series)...Serena Feldman
Heart and Soul (2002)

2002 Roswell (TV series)...Eileen Burrows

2002 Lloyd in Space (TV series)...Violet
The Big Sleepover (2002)

2002 In the Echo (TV movie)

2001 Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street (video)...Gretchen Grundler (voice)

1997-2001 Recess (TV series)...Gretchen / Gretchen Grundler

2001 Rustin...Lee Wolford

2001 Recess: School's Out...Gretchen Grundler (voice)

2000 What Women Want...Alex Marshall

2000 The Growing Pains Movie (TV movie)...Chrissy Seaver

2000 The Indescribable Nth (short)...Doris (voice)

1999 Anywhere But Here...Sarah

1999 Partners (TV movie)...Janie

1999 Marionette

1996-1998 Jumanji (TV series)...Peter Shepherd

1998 ER (TV series)...Dana Ellis

1998 Kelly Kelly (TV series)...Maureen Kelly

1998 Dancer, Texas Pop. 81...Josie Hemphill

1997 Wings (TV series)...Rebecca
Ms. Write (1997)

1997 Moloney (TV series)...Katherine 'Kate' Moloney

1995-1996 Maybe This Time (TV series)...Gracie Wallace

1995 Annie: A Royal Adventure! (TV movie)...Annie

1995 The Cartoon Cartoon Show (TV series)...Mina
Mina and the Count: Interlude with a Vampire (1995)

1995 Nine Months...Shannon Dwyer

1995 Roseanne (TV series)...Lisa
The Blaming of the Shrew (1995)

1994 All-American Girl (TV series)...Casey Emmerson

1993-1994 Phenom (TV series)...Mary Margaret Doolan

1993 The Town Santa Forgot (TV movie)...Granddaughter (voice)

1993 In the Shadows, Someone's Watching (TV movie)...Blind Girl

1993 Men Don't Tell (TV movie)...Cindy

1990-1992 Growing Pains (TV series)...Chrissy Seaver

To see Then & Now pictures of Ashley Johnson, visit: Celebrity Nooz

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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--
Tracy Scoggins - ALIVE
Born: 11/13/1953

Nicolas Roeg - ALIVE
Born: 08/15/1928

Jack Nance - DEAD
Alive: 12/21/1943 Died: 12/30/1996

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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
5/29
Mike Carrell, 69, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1994-2004) and Washington State Senate (since 2004), myelodysplastic syndrome.
Marvin Junior, 77, American R&B singer (The Dells), kidney failure.
Svatopluk Kosvanec, 76, Czech jazz trombonist.
Cliff Meely, 65, American basketball player (University of Colorado, Houston Rockets), blood infection.
Mulgrew Miller, 57, American jazz pianist, stroke.
Henry Morgentaler, 90, Polish-born Canadian physician, abortion advocate, Holocaust survivor, heart attack.
Franca Rame, 84, Italian theatre actress, playwright and political activist.
William Earl Reid, 78, Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA for Surrey (1983-1986) and Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale (1986-1991), cancer.
Wali-ur-Rehman, Pakistani Taliban militant, military action.

5/28
Silverio Paulo de Albuquerque, 96, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caetité (1970-1973) and Feira de Santana (1973-1995).
Nino Bibbia, 91, Italian Olympic skeleton racer and bobsledder (1948).
Nazmiye Demirel, 86, Turkish first lady, wife of Süleyman Demirel, Alzheimer's disease.
Cullen Finnerty, 30, American football player (Grand Valley State University).
Viktor Kulikov, 91, Russian soldier, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1977), Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief (1977-1989).
Albert Mangwea, Tanzanian rap artist.
Irénise Moulonguet, 112, French supercentenarian, oldest living person in France.
Jack Mulkey, 95, American football player (Fresno State University).
Fotis Polymeris, 93, Greek singer.
Buck Robley, American professional wrestler, heart failure.
Eddie Romero, 88, Filipino film director, blood clot and prostate cancer.
Caesar Trunzo, 87, American politician, member of the New York Senate (1972-2008).

5/27
Yara Abbas, 26, Syrian television journalist, shot.
Carol Fleming Al-Ajroush, 53, American-born Saudi journalist and blogger, breast cancer.
György Bárdy, 92, Hungarian actor.
Guy Carcassonne, 62, French constitutionalist, cerebral hemorrhage.
Tom Lichtenberg, 72, American football coach (University of Maine, Ohio University), cancer.
Little Tony, 72, Italian-born Sammarinese pop singer and actor, lung cancer.
Yoshinari Matsushita, 43, Japanese motorcyle racer, race collision.
Bill Pertwee, 86, British radio and television actor (Dad's Army, You Rang, M'Lord?) and author.
Abdoulaye Sékou Sow, 83, Malian politician, Prime Minister (1993â??1994).
Berny Wagner, 88, American track and field coach (Oregon State University), USTCA Coach of the Year (1972), inducted into USTFCCCA Hall of Fame (2002).

5/26
Bob Campbell, 81, Australian football executive, President of Glenelg FC (1981â??1986), Chairman of Adelaide FC (2001-2004).
Roberto Civita, 76, Italian-born Brazilian businessman, CEO of Grupo Abril, heart failure.
Frankie Conklin, 53, American cheer coach (University of Memphis), coached seven UCA national championships, heart attack.
Mbuya Dyoko, 68, Zimbabwean musician, cirrhosis.
Héctor Garza, 43, Mexican professional wrestler, lung cancer.
Ivanka Grabcheva, 66, Bulgarian film and television director, complications from a fall.
Igor Gradoboev, 41, Belarusian footballer.
John Q. Hammons, 94, American hotelier and philanthropist.
Hildegard Krekel, 60, German actress, cancer.
Hal McClure, 92, American journalist (Associated Press), complications from a fall.
Otto Muehl, 87, Austrian painter and activist, Parkinson's disease and cardiac ailment.
José María Pérez Gay, 70, Mexican journalist, academic and diplomat, Ambassador to Portugal, National Journalism Prize (1996).
Happy Pieterse, 70, South African boxer, complications of diabetes.
Sparkly Devil, 36, American burlesque performer, traffic collision.
Jack Vance, 96, American science fiction author.