Ashley Park Parents: Meet Sara Park, Andrew Park

Ashley Park is a New York City-based American actress, dancer, and singer. Her parents are Andrew and Sara Park, and she has a younger sister, Audrey. She is of Korean descent, and is a second cousin of actor Justin H. Min.

Park began taking dance classes at the Oceanside Dance Academy at the age of three and piano lessons at the age of five.

Park attended Pioneer High School, where she was involved in theatre and choir. She also co-founded Soulfege, a women’s a cappella group at Pioneer High School that finished second in a national competition in 2009.

After graduating from Pioneer High School in 2009, she went on to the University of Michigan, where she earned a BFA in musical theatre from the School of Music, Theater, and Dance in 2013.

She co-founded the Michigan Performance Outreach Workshop during her undergraduate studies (MPOW).

Ashley Park is best known for her roles as Mindy Chen on Netflix’s Emily in Paris, for which she received a Critics’ Choice Award nomination, and as Gretchen Wieners in the 2018 Tony Award-nominated musical Mean Girls, for which she received Drama Desk and Tony Award nominations.