Ashley Blaine Featherson

About

Ashley Blaine Featherson-Jenkins (née Featherson; born December 4, 1987) is an American actress. She is best known as the co-creator and star of Black&SexyTV’s Hello Cupid. She also appeared in the web series Roomieloverfriends, the film Bad Hair, and was a main cast member on the Netflix series Dear White People (2017–2021).

Born Ashley Blaine Featherson, she was raised in Gaithersburg, Maryland. She first acted at age four in a school production and enjoyed it from that age. When she was 14 she began to perform at the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C. and studied under costume designer Reggie Ray.
Featherson attended Howard University and graduated from the Fine Arts department, where she majored in musical theater. She is a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Featherson has stated that she most admires the career and work of Vanessa Williams.

Featherson co-created the web series Hello Cupid with Lena Waithe in 2012. The show was distributed by Black & Sexy TV and eventually rebooted. Featherson also starred in the series opposite Hayley Marie Norman.
Her first feature film role was in Justin Simien’s Dear White People in 2014. She…