Ashley Bell

Birth Date: 26/05/1986

A Santa Monica native born May 26, 1986, Ashley Bell carries voice acting in her DNA - her father is Michael Bell, one of America's most recognised voiceover performers. Trained at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and honed further at The Groundlings, she built a career straddling animation, games, and live-action horror. Best known for voicing Erline in Sorcery, the White Queen in Alice in Wonderland: The Video Game, and her physically astonishing turn as Nell Sweetzer in The Last Exorcism.

Ashley Bell’s Crossover Career – From Voice Booth to Horror Icon

Growing up in a household where voiceover work was simply part of daily life gave Ashley Bell an unusual head start. The daughter of veteran voice actor Michael Bell and actress Victoria Carroll, she absorbed the craft from childhood, and her own voice credits began accumulating while she was still building a stage and screen career on the side. That dual identity – part voice performer, part physical actress – would define her trajectory through the 2000s and 2010s.

The Video Game Work and Early Voice Credits

On the video game side, Bell landed notable roles that demonstrated her range. She voiced Erline, the lead character in Sony PlayStation’s Sorcery (2012), a Move-controller fantasy title that leaned heavily on its narrative performances. Before that, she voiced the White Queen in Disney’s Alice in Wonderland: The Video Game (2010), a tie-in to Tim Burton’s film. Her animated credits include additional voice work across several studio productions, building a quieter but steady body of work behind the microphone.

The Last Exorcism and a Career-Defining Physical Performance

No single project shifted Ashley Bell’s public profile more dramatically than The Last Exorcism (2010). Cast as Nell Sweetzer, a Louisiana teenager at the center of a documentary-style exorcism horror film, Bell performed extraordinary feats of physical contortion entirely herself – no CGI, no stunt double. The role earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female and an MTV Movie Award nomination, and drew widespread critical attention to her as a physical performer of unusual commitment. The sequel, The Last Exorcism Part II (2013), extended her involvement in the franchise.

NYU, The Groundlings, and the Stage Foundation

Before any of the screen credits, Bell trained seriously. She graduated a year ahead of schedule from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, having also studied dance as a teenager – a background that fed directly into the contortion work that made The Last Exorcism so striking. Stage appearances in New York and Cambridge, England followed, as did work with The Groundlings, the Los Angeles improvisational theatre company known for launching comedic talent. That foundation in live performance and physical discipline informs every dimension of her work, both on screen and at the microphone.