Amber Stevens west

  

Amber Dawn Stevens West (born September 7, 1986) is an American actress from the United States. She is best known for her role as Ashleigh Howard on the ABC Family series Greek (2007-2011), Maxine in the NBC sitcom The Carmichael Show (2015-2017), and Claire Davis in the CBS comedy Happy Together (2018-2019). She was also in Jessabelle (2014), 22 Jump Street (2014), and The Amazing Spider-Man 2012. She played the lead role of Maya in the comedy film Love Jacked. Stevens West was born Amber Dawn Stevens, Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of Shadoe Stevens, a former model and radio announcer, and Beverly Cunningham. She has one younger sister, Chyna, and an older half-brother from the paternal side, Brad. Stevens is a mixed race because the birth parents were the family of a Caucasian father and an African-American mother who was also Comanche. Stevens West is a Beverly Hills High School graduate. Her early career saw she was featured in TV commercials for Old Navy Verizon, Logitech and Neutrogena. In 2005, she made her TV acting debut on Complete Savages. Stevens West started playing Ashleigh Howard on the ABC Family comedy-drama TV series Greek in 2007. In a critique released shortly after the premiere of the show that year, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called the show "light-hearted fun" and "authentic" while The New York Times claimed that Greek "captures the spirit of the hedge fund age unlike anything else." The series ended with four seasons on the 7th of March, 2011.She has appeared in films The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), Fired Up (2009), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), The Kitchen (2012) and Jessabelle (2014).