Daphne Ashbrook
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Daphne Lee Ashbrook (born 30 January 1963; age 45) played Melora Pazlar in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Melora". She is perhaps better known as the Eighth Doctor's companion Dr. "Amazing" Grace Holloway in the 1996 television film Doctor Who.
Ashbrook was born in Long Beach, California and is the sister of Twin Peaks actor Dana Ashbrook and director/ producer Taylor Ashbrook. Her daughter, Paton Ashbrook, is also an actress whose father is actor Lorenzo Lamas.
She, like Simon Pegg, Alan Dale, Barrie Ingham, Christopher Neame, John Franklyn-Robbins, Guy Siner, Maurice Roëves and Olaf Pooley, is one of the very small number of actors to have speaking roles in both the Star Trek and Doctor Who franchises. (Gregg Palmer also appeared in both franchises but his role in Star Trek went uncredited.) Of these, she is the only woman and the only credited American (Palmer is also American).
More recently, Ashbrook appeared in the television series Ghost Whisperer (2008) and the mystery thriller The Lodger (2008).
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- DaphneAshbrook.net - official site
- Daphne Ashbrook at Wikipedia
- Daphne Ashbrook at the Internet Movie Database
