Creator / Daphne Ashbrook

"The corporate types get all frightened and confused if you let the fans over the wall to play in your garden."

Daphne Lee Ashbrook (born January 30, 1963 in Long Beach, California) is an American actress, singer and writer, best known to geeks for having been in both Star Trek and Doctor Who, and best known to the internet for being One of Us to an almost unprecedented degree. She has also had recurring parts on JAG and The O.C..

Ashbrook enjoyed her role in Doctor Who so much that she still happily blogs about it on her tumblr, frequently in character, and has a second tumblr account where she blogs as Webdalek. She also appeared in Big Finish Doctor Who alongside her Doctor Who co-stars, though (due to copyright issues) as different characters.

Ashbrook is notable as the only major aversion of the Fake American trope on Doctor Who; all other American companions have been played by Brits or Canadians.

Tweets as @DaphneAshbrook.

Her roles in works with pages on TV Tropes:

Live-Action TV

• Hardcastle and McCormick: episode "Rolling Thunder" (1983) — Melinda
• Knight Rider: episode "A Knight in Shining Armor" (1984) — Katherine Granger
• Riptide: episode "Czech-Mate" (1984) — Sasha
• Street Hawk: episode "Dog Eat Dog" (1985) — Deborah Shain
• The A-Team: episode "Road Games" (1985) — Patty Sullivan
• Simon & Simon: episode "The Mickey Mouse Mob" (1985) — Mavis Delaporte
• The Fall Guy: episode "Reel Trouble" (1985) — Casey
• Murder, She Wrote episodes:
  • "Ballad for a Blue Lady" (1990) — Alice Diamond
  • "Dear Deadly" (1994) — Alexis Hill
  • "Nailed" (1995) — Kathy Stafford
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: episode "Melora" (1993) — Melora Pazlar
• Diagnosis: Murder: episode "Georgia on My Mind" (1994) — Georgia
• JAG: 5 episodes^{show list} "Pilot Error", "Jinx", "Someone to Watch Over Annie", "With Intent to Die", "Tiger, Tiger" (1995-98) —
• Doctor Who: The TV Movie (1996) — Dr. Grace Holloway
• Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction: 2 episodes (1997) — Mrs. Johnson
• Profiler: episode "All in the Family" (1999) — Nikki Fleming
• Cupid: episode "Grand Delusions" (1999) — Mona Lovesong
• The Guardian: episode "Feeding Frenzy" (2001) — Samantha Furnari
• Judging Amy: episode "Women in Cacti with a Curled Up Rat" (2002) — Beth, Concerned Mother
• Crossing Jordan: episode "Enlightenment" (2005) — Mrs. Carter
• CSI: episode "Dog Eat Dog" (2005) — Buffet Manager
• The O.C.: 5 episodes^{show list} "Premiere", "The Gamble", "The Journey", "The Dawn Patrol", "The Graduates" (2003-06) — Dawn Atwood
• Cold Case: episode "Thick As Thieves" (2007) — Kylie Cramer '07
• Ghost Whisperer: episode "Big Chills" (2008) — Sandy Graber
• Without a Trace: episode "True/False" (2008) — Paula Wechsler
• Law & Order: LA: episode "Playa Vista" (2010) — Jodi Morris
• NCIS: episode "Out of the Frying Pan" (2011) — Donna Peyton
• Hollywood Heights: 61 episodes (2012) — Jackie Kowalski

Audio Play

• Big Finish Doctor Who:
  • Doctor Who Main Range: "The Next Life" (2004) — Perfection
  • Companion Chronicles: 3 releases^{show list} "Tales from the Vault", "Mastermind", "The Tactics of Defeat" (2011-18) — Ruth Matheson
  • The Worlds of Doctor Who: "The Screaming Skull" (2014) — Ruth Matheson

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