Erica Ash attends the HollyRod 2023 DesignCare Gala at The Beehive on July 15, 2023, in Los Angeles, Calif. Rodin Eckenroth
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Comic, actor, singer and mannequin Erica Ash has died at age 46. She was finest recognized for MadTV, the sitcom Survivor’s Regret, Rosie O’Donnell’s The Huge Homosexual Sketch Present and the Kevin Hart sequence Actual Husbands of Hollywood.
“After an extended and brave battle with most cancers, she transitioned peacefully surrounded by her family members,” reads an announcement from her household, shared with NPR by Ash’s publicist. “Erica was an incredible girl and gifted entertainer who touched numerous lives along with her sharp wit, humor, and real zest for all times. Her reminiscence will stay eternally in our hearts.”
Ash started her profession on stage with credit together with Child It is You on Broadway, a Disney touring manufacturing of The Lion King and the Off-Broadway present Soul Physician.
Because the daughter of a U.S. Military Captain/Chaplain, and a math trainer, Ash moved round rather a lot whereas rising up, together with spending time in Germany. She graduated from Emory College with a premed diploma. However she’d been bitten by the efficiency bug as a baby. After Emory, she moved to Japan, the place she pursued a profession as a mannequin, singer and actor.
Among the many many performers who paid tribute to Ash, Siedah Garrett writes, “Moved to tears on the passing of gorgeous, gifted & humorous actor from Survivor’s Regret… Erica generously labored with me on an authentic jailhouse skit I submitted to Netflix.”
“Erica Ash was a light-weight. Lovely, humorous, past gifted,” writes Christopher Landon, who directed Ash within the film We Have A Ghost, “I used to be blessed to work along with her and name her my buddy. My coronary heart goes out to her household and pals proper now.”
