Bio: Ashley Williams is an American actress. She is known for playing Victoria on the CBS series How I Met Your Mother opposite Josh Radnor. She's also had a long relationship with The Hallmark Channel where she stars in movies, produces, directs, writes, and also founded their women's directing initiative called "Make Her Mark". She also wrote and directed the short film "Meats" which played at Sundance and sold to Showtime. She has starred in more than a dozen different television pilots over the years and done over 200 episodes of television and television movies, in studio and independent films, regional theater, Off-Broadway, and on Broadway. She starred in the television series The Jim Gaffigan Show on Comedy Central and in the NBC series Good Morning Miami, as well as Warner Brothers' movie Something Borrowed.
Tivia: In an online poll, her character, Victoria was voted the best love interest of Ted (Josh Radnor) on How I Met Your Mother (2005), with 45.25% of the votes. Beating out even the show's main character, Robin (Cobie Smulders), who took second with 30.36% of the votes.Daughter of Gurney Williams and Linda Williams.. Elder siblings are actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Los Angeles County firefighter/paramedic Jay Williams. Sister-in-law of country music star Brad Paisley.She lived in New York City for about a year before moving to Los Angeles to work on Good Morning, Miami (2002).Her father is a freelance medical journalist and her mother is a fund-raiser for the Michael J. Fox Parkinson's Research Foundation.(May 29, 2011) Married her boyfriend of 8 years Neal Dodson. They met each other at an acting class.Has been writing diaries since she was little (and has so far filled up 37 of them).Studied at Boston University's renowned School of Theatre Arts, graduating in 2001.Appears at many celebrity charity fund-raisers (especially for AIDS).Attended Rye High School in Rye, New York.Has 2 sons with her husband, Neal Dodson - Gus Williams Dodson (b. October 5, 2014 at home to an Alexi Murdoch's song, weighing 8 lbs., 8 oz. and measuring 20? inches long) and Odie Sal Dodson (b. May 17, 2017 in Los Angeles).Enjoys writing, doing yoga, running and hiking.In the summer 2016 she suffered a miscarriage while 2 months pregnant with her second child.Was named the fall "It" girl of 2002.London, England studying at RADA and LAMDA (1999)Los Angeles, California. Shooting a recurring role on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005). (December 2005)Los Angeles, California. Shooting the pilot for Good Morning, Miami (2002) at CBS Radford Studios. (April 2002)