Simone Ashwini Pillai (born 30 March 1995), professionally known as Simone Ashley, is a British Actress and Model from London. She rose to fame after she played the role of Olivia in the Netflix web series “Sex Education”. The actress is also known for her movies “Broadchurch (2013)” and “Pokémon Detective Pikachu” (2019).
Simone Ashley aka Simone Ashwini Pillai is a British-English actress and model. As of 2022, Simone Ashley’s net worth is $2 million. She is popularly known for portraying the famous role of Kate Sharma in the television series titled Bridgerton in the year 2021.
EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION
Born to Indian Tamil parents Latha and Gunasekharan Pillai, Ashley is from Camberley, Surrey, and has an older brother Ashley has spoken about how despite growing up in a household of academics, she was always drawn more towards the creative fields. Her parents were hesitant about her inclination to the arts. “My parents were quite protective over me,” she told Glamour. “They’re the first generation. They came from India to this country, so they didn’t really have a life where they could choose to be whatever they wanted.”Ashley grew up singing classical music, and opera, and playing the piano.
Ashley’s family later moved to Beaconsfield where Ashley attended Beaconsfield High School. She also attended Redroofs Theatre School in Maidenhead for sixth form. She spent some of her teen years in California where she has relatives and went on to train in acting at Arts Educational School in West London.
, Simone Ashley is 27 Years Old as of 2022. She was born and raised in a well-settled Christian family from Camberley, Surrey, England. She is British-English by nationality and has her belief in the Christian religion. She completed her early schooling at red roofs theatre school in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England.
After that, she enrolled herself at arts educational schools in London, England, United Kingdom from where she completed her graduation. Since childhood, she always has desired of becoming a popular actress and model in the industry.
Career
She started her acting career in 2006 with a comedy crime TV show inspector Coliandro, by working on this show she earned her first on-screen credit. Ashley played the role of Veena and the show was created by Carlo Lucarelli.
Later in 2017, she played a repetitive character Dana in the third season of BBC American TV series Broadchurch. The same year, Simone got an opportunity to portray the character named Aarti in Andrew Morahan’s show called “Boogie Man”
Some of the other main casts of the series are Ella-Rae Smith as Kristen, Ramon Tikaram as Deepak, Amy Jackson, Nick Moran as Gerry, Karan Gill as Rama, etc. Later, in 2018, she was seen in the thriller/comedy movie “Kill Ben Lyk” which came out on November 04, 2018.
Erwan Marinopoulos did the direction of the film. Ashley acted as The Girl alongside Dimitri Leonidas, Martyn Ford, Bronson Webb, Eugene Simon, Ashley Thomas, Gretchen Egolf, and much more.
In the year 2019, the actress appeared in a movie named Pokémon Detective Pikachu, where she played the role of a girlfriend, and recently, she worked in season 2 of sex education. Simone Ashley estimated Net worth is between $400,000 US Dollars (as of 2020).
Having auditioned in 2020, it was announced in February 2021 that Ashley would star as leading lady Kate opposite Jonathan Bailey as Anthony in the second series of the Shondaland-produced Netflix romance period drama Bridgerton, based on the second novel in Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series, The Viscount Who Loved Me.[13] The series was released in March 2022. She is set to reprise her role for the third series. In 2022, Ashley was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in European entertainment She has an undisclosed role in the 2023 live-action film adaptation of Disney’s The Little Mermaid.
PERSONAL LIFE
Simone Ashley’s Parents are Gunasekharan and Latha Pillai. Simone Ashley’s father’s name is Gunasekharan Pillai who is a businessman by profession and her mother’s name is Latha Pillai who is a housewife.
She also has one elder sibling, her brother’s name is Sean Ashley. Simone Ashley’s marital status is unmarried. She is not dating anyone for now and holding a single status. There is no insight into any of her past relationships.
NET WORTH
As of 2022, Simone Ashley’s net worth is $2 Million. She majorly earns through her filming projects, television projects, modeling assignments, and several other business ventures.
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