# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/april-ashley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:18:40.263Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/april-ashley"
name: "April Ashley"
slug: "april-ashley"
description: "April Ashley, styled as The Honourable Mrs Corbett from 1963 to 1980, was an English model, author, and LGBT rights activist. In the 1950s, upon being discharged from the Merchant Navy, she performed under the stage name Toni April at Le Carrousel de Paris in Paris. Ashley was outed as a transgender woman by The Sunday People newspaper in 1961 and was one of the earliest British people known to have had gender confirmation surgery. Her first marriage, to the future 3rd Baron Rowallan, was annulled in the High Court of Justice case of Corbett v Corbett. Ashley was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to transgender equality."
tagline: "English model, actress, author, and activist (1935–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/An_Evening_With_April_Ashley_at_the_Southbank_Centre4.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "trans woman"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Models"
  slug: "models"
profileType:
  name: "Model"
  slug: "model"
birthDate: "1935-04-29"
deathDate: "2021-12-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.14
  momentum:             17.52115324349734
  historical:           13.62100933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0039018/"
    handle:    "nm0039018"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.aprilashley.org/"
sources:
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    title: "April Ashley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%A3%D8%B4%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "أبريل أشلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Ashley"
    title: "April Ashley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Ashley"
    title: "April Ashley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Ashley"
    title: "April Ashley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Ashley"
    title: "April Ashley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%BE%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "آپریل اشلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Ashley"
    title: "April Ashley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%99"
    title: "אפריל אשלי"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Ashley"
    title: "April Ashley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%B5%D6%83%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%AC_%D4%B7%D5%B7%D5%AC%D5%AB"
    title: "Էյփրիլ Էշլի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Ashley"
    title: "April Ashley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Ashley"
    title: "April Ashley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%88%D0%BB%D0%B8%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B9%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BB"
    title: "Эшли, Эйприл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Ashley"
    title: "April Ashley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Ashley"
    title: "April Ashley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q774137"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump