Ashley trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Previous work for Shakespeare’s Globe includes: Measure for Measure.

Ashley recently starred as Don Pedro in the National Theatre’s production of Much Ado About Nothing opposite Katherine Parkinson. He played the lead role of Sky Masterson in the Royal Exchange’s hit production of Guys & Dolls, for which he won Best Performance in a Musical at the UK Theatre Awards. Further awards include the Ian Charleson award 1st Prize for his work in Macbeth at Sheffield Crucible. Other theatre credits include Changing Destiny and Ah Wilderness at the Young Vic; Ike Turner in the West End production of Tina The Musical; the title role in Pericles and Danton’s Death at the National Theatre; Death Of A Salesman and Hamlet at the Royal Exchange; Human Animals, Belong and truth and reconciliation at the Royal Court; A Raisin In The Sun at Sheffield Crucible; Henry V for the Michael Grandage Company (West End); Fences (Theatre Royal Bath/West End); Terror at the Lyric Hammersmith; The Country Wife at Chichester Festival Theatre; The Lottery Of Love at the Orange Tree and Richard II and King Lear at the Donmar Warehouse.

TV Credits include: The Undeclared War (Channel 4), Manhunt S2 (ITV/Buffalo Pictures), Victoria II (Mammoth Screen), Doctors (BBC), Humans (Channel 4) and Ordinary Lies (BBC 1).