Ashley Earnest

Ashley Earnest is an actress known for Ernest et Célestine (2012) and Dora and Friends: Into the City! (2014). She began modeling and acting at the age of nine along with her older sisters. She has appeared in numerous television commercials and lent her voice radio and PSAs. In 2012, Ashley was cast as the role of Alana in the Nickelodeon TV series Dora and Friends: Into the City! She was also the voice of Antoinette in the 2014 Academy Award nominated film Ernest and Celestine. As a child model she has walked the runway several seasons for Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York City. Ashley grew up in a family where the kids were ultimately home schooled to allow them to travel and devote more time to the arts, focusing on music, dance, and foreign language studies. As a child, she studied dance at the Conservatory Ballet. Ashley began violin lessons at the age of three and now plays the viola. She spent three years studying at the Manhattan School of Music in the pre-college program, playing in their top orchestra. Ashley's first language was Spanish and she speaks it fluently along with English and French. She spent many of her childhood years studying in countries like Switzerland, Spain, and England. She has visited more than seventy countries and became one of the youngest children to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa at the age of twelve.