Ashley Madekwe and Ashley Leggat

Madekwe comes from the mixed race family of South London in England. Madekwe is English, and her father is Nigerian. Her family was on the South London Council Estate. She was a student at The Brit School aged 14. In London she attended The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where her acting degree was awarded. While at the school, she was a part-time actor in numerous stage productions such as The King Henry V playing Princess Katherine and Wuthering Heights portraying Catherine Earnshaw.
Madekwe launched her acting career through the movie Storm Damage. In the years since, she's had appearances in guest roles in films like Teachers, Doctors Casualty Drop Dead Gorgeous. Her breakthrough role came in 2007's Woody Allen film Cassandra's Dream. It was in the role of Colin Farrell (who played the role of Cassandra) as well as Ewan McGrath. Her success led her to play Elisha as a one-off BBC Three drama West 10 LDN pilot. Later, she appeared in the six-episode series Trexx & Flipside as Ollie. In the ITV2 series Secret Diary of a Call Girl was her first appearance in 2008 playing Bambi. Madekwe played the lead role in How to Lose Friends And Alienate Others. The comedy that was released in 2008. Her credits in theatre are Little Sweet Thing by Roy Williams and Flight Path by David Watson.
Madekwe officially made her US debut in the series The Beautiful Life in 2009. The show aired just two episodes at The CW, and was later removed from the air. Ashley Davenport appeared in ABC drama Revenge as of February 2011. In May of 2013, it was revealed that Madekwe, who had appeared on the show as a series regular for the two previous seasons, was to leave the series with a guest appearance on the first episode of the season's new episode. From 2014-2016, Madekwe starred in the role of Tituba in the TV series Salem. In June 2012, she got married to her long-time partner actor Iddo Goldberg. Apart from Secret Diary of a Call Girl they also appeared with each other on Salem and also he played a part alongside her in the show on TV.

Ashley Leggat was born in Hamilton, Ontario, into a large, extended family. She was raised by her parents Roy and Patty along with her older brothers, Rob, Brett, and twins Todd and Bram. Ashley was raised in the arenas and baseball parks since her brothers, who were all athletic, were hockey players, baseball players, and both in the summer and winter. Ashley was not a walker, but she would dance. When she was two and half, she found Baby Ballet. That was the start of Ashley's love for dancing. Until she graduated from the high school she attended, Ashley danced competitively in the highest divisions of ballet, tap, jazz pointe, acrobatics lyrical, musical theatre and hip-hop. She won the top soloist at each of the major dance competitions including, International Dance Challenge, Showstoppers 5-7-8 Showtime, Flash Dance, and Dance, Dance, Dance among others.