Ashleigh Crystal Hairston is an American actress, writer, and producer. She has provided voice acting for Avengers Assemble, Craig of the Creek, and Tiny Toons Looniversity, and was a writer for Jessica's Big Little World. Hairston is the co-developer and main voice role in '. For her writing she has received nominations for two Children's & Family Emmy Awards and one Annie Award.
Hairston was born in Seattle, Washington and raised in nearby Bellevue, Washington. She is the youngest of five children. Her father was the minister of a predominantly Black church in Seattle and as such she was active in the church.
She attended Howard University and majored in Theatre Arts. After graduation she moved to Los Angeles in 2012 and took improv and sketch writing classes at iO West. She also performed improv at Second City Hollywood and on a sketch team for Maude Night at UCB. Hairston also trained in voice acting.
Hairston booked her first voice acting role in 2019 for Avengers Assemble. While voicing a recurring character on Craig of the Creek, she later joined the writing staff in her first writing job. She incorporated her childhood experiences playing double dutch in one of the episodes she wrote. Hairston was the head writer for the Craig of the Creek spin-off Jessica's Big Little World. She has also written for Wolfboy and the Everything Factory on Apple TV+.
She is the co-developer, co-executive producer, showrunner, and the lead voice role for the Netflix revival series '. The series follows a young Black girl, Hazel Wells, as the new god-kid of fairy godparents Cosmo and Wanda.
Hairston is the voice of Babs Bunny in the HBO Max revival Tiny Toons Looniversity. In ', based on the Backyard Sports video game series, she voiced Sunny Day and Jocinda Smith.