Ashley Palmer

Ashley Elizabeth Palmer is an American actress and singer best known for her appearance in the 2007 hit horror film, Paranormal Activity. Early life and education Palmer starred in her first play at age 5 while growing up in Naperville, Illinois, and spent her childhood performing and studying theater, dance and music. Before high school, her family relocated to Loveland, Ohio. While attending Loveland High School, she also studied singing, dancing and acting at the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music prep program. Her first professional acting job was in 1995 when, at age 16, she played the lead role of Polly Browne in The Boy Friend on the showboat Majestic. The following year she played Luisa in The Fantasticks at a historic Over-the-Rhine theater. She earned several scholarships to study musical theatre, and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio. Career In 2000, Palmer moved to New York City where she worked in summer stock, regional and children's touring theatre and independent film before being selected for the original cast of the Off-Broadway show Pieces (of Ass). Despite her part getting cut in her first TV job, a restaurant hostess in the final season of Sex and the City, she relocated to Los Angeles in 2004 to pursue film and television work.