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Lynne Ashe is a Georgia-born character actress known for playing quirky characters with big personalities. Classically trained in Shakespearean and British Restoration theatre, Lynne was primarily a stage actress until 2010, when she was approached by a stage director she'd formerly worked with asking her to audition for a film he'd written. She landed a supporting role in "Crackerjack" and thus began her screen career. Lynne was one of the first two graduates of the nationally acclaimed theatre program known as the Gainesville Theatre Alliance, a joint program between UNG and Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia. Her graduate studies (in Theatre) were at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, where she studied under the tutelage of James Dodding and thereby fell in love with Shakespeare and Restoration Theatre. Through Wake Forest, she obtained a grant to study for a summer in Stratford-upon-Avon with the Shakespeare Institute and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Lynne is also a writer (poet, playwright and screenwriter) and jewelry artisan, selling her hand-make jewelry under the name "Ashelyn Designs" on Etsy. Lynne finds it ironic that the southern dialect she strove so hard to overcome/neutralize during her high school and college theatre training was the very thing that helped land her first few screen roles. She had to re-train an accent she'd formerly tried to restrain. Lynne is an advocate for raising awareness about an adipose-tissue and lymphatic disorder known as Lipedema, which primarily affects women, a condition which causes the body to create a type of fat on the lower half of the body which cannot be metabolized. - IMDb Mini Biography By: MLA
In addition to her stage and film work, Lynne designs and sells jewelry - mostly semi-precious stone beads, sterling silver, and swarovski crystal. Her shop on Etsy.com is named "Ashelyn Designs". Lynne is the cousin of renowned nuclear physicist and author James Mahaffey (Atomic Accidents, Atomic Awakening, and Nuclear Power text series). Lynne is a Gemini, and her favorite color is green. Lynne is an avid lap swimmer; her favorite is backstroke.