Ashley Jones

From 2016 to 2017, Jones played the recurring role of Parker Forsyth on General Hospital.

Jones was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Shawn Jones, her father, is a minister. The family lived in Tennessee for five years before her father took a job preaching in Texas. Jones has one brother named Zach and one sister named Toni, named after their aunt who saved their mother's life by donating blood. At the age of five, she filmed her first commercial. At the age of nine, Jones starred in several theater productions in the Actors Theatre of Houston including The Women, Ah, Wilderness!, and Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. At the age of 12, she was in The Chalk Garden by Enid Bagnold.

Jones rose to fame on the long-running CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, playing Megan Dennison from 1997 to 2000, and again in 2001. She received two Daytime Emmy Award nominations for her role on The Young and the Restless. She played Dr. Bridget Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful from December 2004 to February 2012 and again in 2013. She has made brief return appearances several times since 2013, including numerous times in 2025. In 2024, she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for her role as Bridget, her second nomination for the role and fourth overall in her career. Jones starred as Daphne on the second season of HBO's True Blood in 2009. Jones also has starred in the number of Lifetime movies, like A Teacher's Crime (2008), Dead At 17 (2008), Secrets from Her Past (2011), House (2011), A Sister's Revenge (2013), and The Secret Sex Life of a Single Mom (2014) and Saving My Daughter (2021). In late January 2016, Jones was confirmed to be cast as Parker Forsyth on General Hospital. In 2023, Jones directed the Lifetime movie The Perfect In-Laws, which premiered that November. She starred in an independent film In Flight with co-stars Tiffany Smith and Cristo Fernandez that was released Nov. 8, 2024. In September 2023, she joined Bold and the Beautiful co-star Katherine Kelly Lang as a model for Impero Couture, a fashion company based in Naples, Italy. Jones and Lang are the stars of the line's 2024 campaign. In July 2024, Jones and Lang also became the main models for Caprese, an Italian swimwear company. Jones was executive producer and star of a Lifetime movie The Girl Who Survived: The Alina Thompson Story, which premiered in September 2025. The movie tells the story of a teenage model in Los Angeles who survived an encounter with a serial killer in the 1980s. Jones led the project from scratch and starred on screen as Thompson's mother. In April 2026, Jones revealed she will have a recurring role on the CBS soap Beyond the Gates as an unnamed character. That character was revealed to be Heather, the sister of Joey Armstrong.

Jones was married to actor Noah Nelson, the son of actor Craig T. Nelson, from August 17, 2002, to May 2009. She previously dated former B&B co-star Jack Wagner. On February 1, 2016, Jones married IT infrastructure manager Joel Henricks in a small courthouse wedding. In March 2016, it was announced that Jones and Henricks were expecting a son together, who was born in May 2016. Henricks already has a son from a previous relationship. On September 6, 2019, Jones filed for divorce from Henricks. They share joint custody of their minor child.