Ashley Madekwe and Ashley Leggat

Madekwe, a British-Nigerian mixed race child, was born to an ethnically diverse family from South London. The father of her is Nigerian and Swiss as well as her mother is English. Her family was raised in a south London community estate, where she attended The Brit School at age 14. She studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. The stage she appeared in was several productions as a student including the role of King Henry V, as Princess Katherine as well as Wuthering Heights, as Catherine Earnshaw.
Madekwe first began her acting career with Storm Damage. In the following years, she appeared on Teachers, Doctors Casualty and Drop Dead Gorgeous. Her first role in a film was in Woody Allen's 2007 film Cassandra's Dream opposite Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor. Her success led her to play Elisha in a one-off BBC Three drama West 10 LDN pilot, then appear in six episodes Trexx and Flipside playing the character of Ollie. In 2008, she was offered the Bambi part on the ITV2 Drama Series Secret Diary of a Call Girl. She appeared in two series, 2 and 3. Madekwe starred as the lead character in How to Lose Friends And Alienate Others, a comedy made in the year 2008. Some of her theatre credits are Little Sweet Thing (by Roy Williams) and Flight Path (by David Watson).
Madekwe was chosen to play Ashley Davenport in ABC's show The Beautiful Life. The two-episode drama aired just 2 weeks at The CW and then it was cancelled. The actress was selected in February 2011, as Ashley Davenport on the ABC drama Revenge. Madekwe's departure from the series was confirmed in May 2013. Following two seasons as the main character she made a guest performance in the opening episode of season 3. On the show Salem, she played Tituba between 2014 and the year 2016. In June 2012, she got married to her long-time partner, actor Iddo Goldberg. They've worked together on Secret Diary of a Call Girl and he also was a character on the show Salem.

Ashley Leggat was born in Hamilton, Ontario, into the extended family of a huge, large. Her parents were Roy and Patty along with her older brothers -Rob, Brett, and twins Todd and Bram. The brothers of Ashley were extremely athletic and played baseball and hockey throughout the winter as well as in the summer. Her childhood was spent in stadiums and played baseball. Ashley never actually walked -she was a dancer, and at the age of 2 1/2 years old she began Baby Ballet -and she fell in love with. Ashley began to be a dancer after this. When she was in the high school she attended, Ashley danced competitively in the top divisions in ballet, tap, jazz pointe, acrobatics lyrical, musical theatre and hip-hop. Ashley won the best soloist prize at each major dance contest, which included International Dance Challenge, Showstoppers, 56-7-8 Showtime, Flash Dance, Dance, Dance, Dance, to name just some.

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