Actress Ashley Dyke is as diverse as the characters she portrays. The popular pitchwoman for the “FXcellent” campaign on the FX Network is building a solid career in Hollywood in both comedy and drama. Recently, she appeared on the season finale of CBS’s most popular crime drama, “CSI: NY,” and later this year she will be hitting the big screen as the main love interest in the stoner comedy, “Bud’z House”.

A mixed racial, Jewish woman, Ashley has the talent and look to play a wide variety of characters and appeals to a broad audience. Raised in Fairfax, VA, Ashley is the daughter of Ellen Dyke and the Honorable James W. Dyke, Jr., the first African-American Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth of Virginia and current Chairman of the Greater Washington Board of Trade.

Always an over-achiever, Ashley discovered her enthusiasm for performing while attending Fairfax High School. She went on to get her degree in theater from the University of Virginia, and then studied at the celebrated New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where she got her first taste of television as a series regular on a campus produced show called “Stratagem.”

Ashley moved to Los Angeles to further her career in film and television and hasn’t looked back since. She’s had the opportunity to portray a wide range of characters, including the wildly outrageous Gigi in “Bud’z House", and a young girl struggling in a half-way house in the upcoming thriller “New Hope Manor”; and on stage, as the Angry Vagina in the well-known “Vagina Monologues,” and a young woman surviving a concentration camp in ”I Never Saw Another Butterfly.”