Ashley Park Net Worth – 2023

Ashley Park Net Worth:

$2 Million

What is Ashley Park’s Net Worth?

Ashley Park is a singer, dancer, and actress with a $2 million net worth. Ashley Park is best known for playing Mindy Chen on “Emily in Paris” on Netflix and Gretchen Wieners in “Mean Girls” on Broadway. She has also been in stage shows like “The King and I,” “The Fantasticks,” “Sunday in the Park with George,” and “Lady in the Dark,” among many others. Park has also worked on the miniseries “Tales of the City” on Netflix and the musical comedy series “Girls5eva” on Peacock.

Ashley Park was born in Glendale, California, on June 6, 1991, to Sara and Andrew. She comes from Korea and has a little sister named Audrey. Park grew up in the Michigan city of Ann Arbor. She did community children’s theater there when she was in middle school and when she was in high school at Pioneer. Park also went to Interlochen Summer Arts Camp and helped start a women’s a cappella group at her high school that won second place at a national competition in 2009.

At age 15, Park was told she had a type of leukemia and had to stay in the hospital for eight months. She got her wish from the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which meant that she and her family could go to New York and see several Broadway shows. After going through chemotherapy, Park went back to high school and was cast as “Thoroughly Modern Millie” in a school play. She went to the University of Michigan for higher education and got her BFA in musical theater there in 2013.

Stage Career

In 2009, Park played Yvonne in “Miss Saigon” at Music Theatre Wichita. This was her first major role in a regional theater show. She did shows with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera in Pennsylvania in the years that followed. Park made her Broadway debut in 2014 as a replacement in “Mamma Mia!” In the same year, she played Gabrielle in a national tour of “Cinderella” by Rodgers and Hammerstein. In 2015, Park played Tuptim in a new production of “The King and I” on Broadway. This was her first time in the lead role. She stayed with the show until the summer of 2016, and for her work on the cast recording, she was nominated for a Grammy Award.

In 2016, Park was in “The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen” at the Manhattan Theatre Club and “The Fantasticks” at the Pasadena Playhouse. The next year, she was in a Broadway revival of “Sunday in the Park with George” and an off-Broadway musical called “KPOP.” She was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical for the second one. In 2018, Park played Gretchen Wieners in the original Broadway musical “Mean Girls,” which was based on the 2004 movie of the same name. This was Park’s biggest role to date. She was nominated for both the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for her performance. After “Mean Girls,” Park was in “Lady in the Dark” and “Grand Horizons” in 2019.

Career in Television

In 2014, Park first showed up on TV in an episode of “My Dirty Little Secret.” Three years later, she had a bigger role on the TV show “Nightcap.” She played the character Olivia Cho in eight episodes. Next, in 2019, Park played Instagram star Jennifer “Ani” Winter on the Netflix show “Tales of the City,” which was based on Armistead Maupin’s books with the same name.

In 2020, the Netflix drama “Emily in Paris” gave Park her first big role on TV. She plays Mindy Chen, a former nanny and aspiring singer who becomes the main character’s first friend in Paris, on the show. Lily Collins, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Lucas Bravo, Camille Razat, and Samuel Arnold also have roles in the show. Park was nominated for an MTV Award and a Critics’ Choice Award for her work on “Emily in Paris.” She also has a recurring role on “Girls5eva,” a musical comedy series on Peacock with Sara Bareilles, Paula Pell, Busy Phillips, and Renée Elise Goldsberry.

Career in Film

Park was chosen to play the lead role in the 2022 period drama “Mr. Malcolm’s List,” which is based on the same-named book. Freida Pinto, Sope Dirisu, Theo James, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and Zawe Ashton are also in the cast. Park was also the main character in Adele Lim’s first movie as a director. Lim co-wrote the movie “Crazy Rich Asians,” which Park also starred in.

Philanthropy

Park has done a lot of work for charity in addition to being an actress. She started the Michigan Performance Outreach Workshop while she was a student at the University of Michigan. Its goal is to give southeastern Michigan students chances to do things in the performing arts. She was also a part of the Prison Creative Arts Project. Park started helping Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS when he moved to New York. She has also been a mentor for several programs, such as Broadway Workshop.