After graduating, Ashley Rickards went on to play a number of small roles in movies and television shows. She made her cinematic debut in 2006 with the short “Web Journal Now.” Rickards played Samantha Walker, a runaway foster child, in season six of The CW’s One Tree Hill.
She appeared in 19 episodes of the comedy from 2008 to 2009 alongside Chad Michael Murray, James Lafferty, Hilarie Burton, and Bethany Joy Lenz. In 2010, Rickards and Jimmy Smits co-starred in an episode of the NBC drama series Outlaw. At the time, she was attending an audition for a role in the comedy-drama series Awkward on MTV. She costarred with Nikki DeLoach, Desi Lydic, Mike Faiola, and Beau Mirchoff in the fifth and final season of Awkward in 2015. She played Jenna Hamilton.
