Ashley Victoria Benson was born on December 18 1989 She has been dancing competitively since she was 2 with hip hop jazz ballet tap and lyrical She has been singing since she was about 5 and she hopes to pursue that along with her acting Ashley started modeling at the age of 5 for dance catalogs Ashley was then pursued by The Ford Modeling Agency at the age of 8 She worked steadily in print and is still with the Agency At the age of 10 she wanted to pursue acting Ashley went on to do 35 commercials and then on to theatrical roles Acting was now Ashleys passion Ashley put all her focus into acting which left little time for modeling and dancing anymore Ashleys most recent role is Abby Deveraux on the hit soap Days of Our Lives 1965 Ashley also had a cameo in Lil Romeo and Solange Knowless music video for the song True Love She did a photo shoot with Britney Spears for Vogue Magazine She is in NLTs music video That Girl