Birth Name: Ashley Tyler Ciminella
Place of Birth: Granada Hills, Los Angeles
Date of Birth: April 19, 1968
Ethnicity: Sicilian/Italian (paternal grandfather), English, with more distant Scottish, Irish, German, Welsh, Swiss-German
Ashley Judd is an American actress. She is the daughter of Michael Charles Ciminella and singer Naomi Judd (Diana Ellen Judd). Her maternal half-sister is singer Wynonna Judd. Her paternal grandfather was of Sicilian/Italian descent. Her other ancestry is English, with smaller amounts (to varying degrees) of Scottish, Irish, German, Welsh, and Swiss-German.
On her father’s side, Ashley is the granddaughter of Michael Lawrence Ciminella (the son of Vincenzo “James” Ciminello and Jennie Orlando) and Mary Bernadine Dalton (the daughter of William Henry Dalton and Effie M. Copley). Michael was born in New York, to Italian parents. Mary was born in Kentucky, to a Kentucky-born father and a West Virginia-born mother.
On her mother’s side, Ashley is the granddaughter of Charles Glen Judd (the daughter of Roy Ogden Judd and Sally Ellen Moore) and Pauline Oliver (the daughter of Howard Waverly Oliver and Edith Mae Burton). Charles was born in Kentucky, to Kentucky-born parents. Pauline was born in Ohio, to a Virginia-born father and an Ohio-born mother.
Sources: Genealogy of Ashley Judd – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Ashley Judd (focusing on her father’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Ashley’s maternal grandmother, Pauline Oliver, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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