Jennifer Ashley

Jennifer Ashley is an actress who began in beauty pageants, winning titles such as Miss Restaurant and Miss Textile. A native of the Philadelphia suburbs, she briefly studied fabric design and later moved to San Francisco, where she worked for Columbia Records. Francis Ford Coppola suggested she audition for American Graffiti. She did not get that role, but she made her film debut with a small part in the comedy Your Three Minutes Are Up. She played a groupie in Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise (1974) and was terrorized by Andrew Prine in Barn of the Naked Dead and The Centerfold Girls (1974). In The Pom Pom Girls (1976), she was a high school cheerleader. She played an astronaut group leader in Inseminoid and a prison inmate in Chained Heat. In 1985 she launched Ashley's Closet, a talk show she hosted and executive produced. Her last film role was a TV show host in Me, Myself and I.