Ashley Olsen

She is the daughter of Jarnette "Jarnie" Olsen (née Jones; b. 1954), a personal manager, and David "Dave" Olsen, a real estate developer and mortgage banker.

Along with her twin, Mary-Kate, they have an older brother Trent, a younger sister and actress Elizabeth, and younger half-siblings Courtney and Jake (from their father's second marriage).

Ashley Fuller Olsen (born June 13, 1986) is an American businesswoman, fashion designer and former actress.

Ashley Fuller Olsen was born on June 13, 1986, in Sherman Oaks, California.

She began her acting career at the age of nine months, sharing the role of Michelle Tanner with her twin sister Mary-Kate Olsen in the television sitcom Full House (1987–1995).

They also starred in numerous films together.

She began her acting career at the age of nine months old when she and her twin sister, Mary-Kate Olsen, were hired to share the role of Michelle Tanner on the popular television sitcom Full House (1987–1995).

In the 1990s, associates of Olsen and her twin sister, recognizing their marketing potential, built a production company around them called Dualstar Entertainment Group, which produced a long successful string of TV movies and direct-to-video releases featuring the girls.

She and her twin sister became household names and a popular figures in the preteen market during the late 1990s and early 2000s, with her likeness seen in clothes, books, fragrances, magazines, movies, and posters, among others.

She starred alongside Mary-Kate in the films, To Grandmother's House We Go (1992), Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993), How the West Was Fun (1994), It Takes Two (1995), Billboard Dad (1998) and the television series, Two of a Kind (1998–1999).

In 1993, the production company Dualstar Entertainment Group was founded, which produced a long string of TV movies and direct-to-video releases featuring the girls; they starred in Passport to Paris (1999), Our Lips Are Sealed (2000), Winning London (2001), Holiday in the Sun (2001) and in the television series So Little Time (2001–2002).

Olsen's parents divorced in 1996.

Their father has Norwegian ancestry while their mother is of French, German and Italian ancestry.

Olsen attended the Campbell Hall School in Los Angeles.

They starred in Passport to Paris (1999), Switching Goals (1999), Our Lips Are Sealed (2000), Winning London (2001), Holiday in the Sun (2001) and the television series, So Little Time (2001–2002).

There were fashion dolls of her made by Mattel from 2000 to 2005.

They starred in Getting There (2002), When in Rome (2002), and The Challenge (2003); and made cameos in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003).

They also starred in the films Getting There (2002), When in Rome (2002), The Challenge (2003) and made cameos in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003).

The last film she starred in with her twin sister was New York Minute (2004).

She continued with her acting career independently, appearing with a few guest-star roles in films and in a music video.

After graduating from Campbell Hall in 2004, she and Mary-Kate went on to attend New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

In 2004, the sisters appeared in their theatrical light-hearted romantic comedy film, New York Minute.

It would be their last film together, as well as Ashley's last acting role.

In 2004, upon the twins' 18th birthday, they became co-presidents of their company Dualstar (created in 1993 following the success of Full House), the brand currently selling in over 3,000 stores in the United States and 5,300 stores worldwide.

In 2007, when Mary-Kate and Ashley were 21, they said that if they got involved in movies together again it would be as producers.

In 2009, Olsen contemplated returning to acting and said, "Never say never."

She made appearances in the films The Jerk Theory (2009) and I'm Still Here (2010).

Mary-Kate continued with her acting career independently, appearing in a few films and shows, with her final acting project being in the 2011 movie Beastly.

In March 2012, both Mary-Kate and Ashley officially indicated their interest to retire as actresses in order to focus on their careers in the fashion industry.

She and her twin sister co-founded luxury fashion brand The Row, lifestyle brand Elizabeth and James, and more affordable fashion lines Olsenboye and StyleMint.

They co-authored a book, Influence, featuring interviews with fashion designers that have inspired their fashion lines.

They are members of the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

In March 2012, both Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen indicated their interest to retire as actresses in order to focus on their careers in fashion.

They discussed wanting to open a store as one of their future fashion-based endeavors.

In October 2013, she appeared in the music video for "City of Angels" by Thirty Seconds to Mars.

In 2015, it was announced that John Stamos had signed on with Netflix to produce and co-star in Fuller House, a spin-off of Full House that would reunite the original cast members.

In May of that year, Mary-Kate and Ashley announced that they would not reprise their role as Michelle Tanner; however, two months later in July, according to Netflix's Ted Sarandos, the Olsen twins were "teetering" on an agreement to join the series.

The twins eventually declined to join the cast of Fuller House, with Ashley saying she would not feel comfortable in front of the camera after a 12-year absence from acting and Mary-Kate saying the timing was bad.

Nickelodeon acquired the rights to Mary-Kate and Ashley's video library in 2015.

She and her sister were jointly ranked number three on the VH1 program 100 Greatest Child Stars.