A multi-talented performer with experience on stage, the small screen, and most recently, the recording studio, Tatyana Ali was not likely to be short of work any time soon. A former child actress with a heritage as diverse as her talent, Ali was unquestionably best known to audiences for her co-starring turn as Will Smith's cousin, Ashley Banks, in the hugely popular nineties’ comedy, "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” (NBC, 1990-96).

Born Jan. 24, 1979 in New York City, NY to Afro-Latino and Trinidadian parents, Tatyana Marisol Ali got her first taste of fame when she begged her mother to take her