Dana Ashbrook

Dana Ashbrook at Comic-Con in San Diego (2017)

Dana V. Ashbrook (born May 24, 1967 in San Diego , California ) is an American actor best known for his role as Bobby Briggs in the television series Twin Peaks .

Life

Ashbrook grew up in San Diego, where he graduated from high school in 1985. His father was the chairman of the Palomar College Department of Performing Arts and his mother a teacher. He has a brother and sister, Daphne Ashbrook , who is also an actress.

He became famous in 1990 through the role of the rebellious teenager Bobby Briggs in the television series Twin Peaks and the film prequel Twin Peaks - The Movie (1992). In the following years, however, he was unable to build on this success and was mostly seen in B-movies and guest series, including recurring roles in the television series Dawson's Creek (2002-2003) and LA Crash (2009).

Filmography (selection)

Dana Ashbrook (1990)

Movies

• 1978: Attack of the Killer Tomatoes ( Attack of the Killer Tomatoes )
• 1988: The Wild Zombies have a great time ( Return of the Living Dead Part II )
• 1988: Journey back in time ( Waxwork )
• 1989: Sundown - The withdrawal of the Vampire ( Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat )
• 1989: Infernal girlfriend ( Girlfriend from Hell )
• 1989: Hands Off My Daughter ( She's Out of Control )
• 1990: The Willies
• 1990: Ghost Dad
• 1992: Bonnie & Clyde - How It Really Was ( Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story )
• 1992: Twin Peaks - The Movie ( Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me )
• 1993: Death struggle on the high seas ( Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story , TV movie)
• 1995: The Time Experiment ( WEIRD World , TV film)
• 1999: Blink of an Eye
• 2001: New Alcatraz
• 2002: Python 2
• 2002: Angels Don't Sleep Here
• 2002: The Last Place on Earth
• 2012: Aggression Scale - The Killer in you ( The Aggression Scale )
• 2014: Late Phases
• 2014: Die Sex-Wette - The Winner Takes It All ( The Opposite Sex )

TV Shows

• 1986: Cagney & Lacey (episode 5x20)
• 1987: Under the California Sun ( Knots Landing , episodes 8x16-8x17)
• 1988: 21 Jump Street - crime scene classroom ( 21 Jump Street , episode 3x05)
• 1990–1991, 2017: Twin Peaks (32 episodes)
• 1996: Outer Limits - The Unknown Dimension ( The Outer Limits , episode 2x02)
• 2000: Pretender ( The Pretender , episode 4x08)
• 2001: Charmed ( Charmed , episode 3x15)
• 2002–2003: Dawson's Creek (9 episodes)
• 2006: Deadwood (episode 3x12)
• 2007: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (episode 8x15)
• 2009: LA Crash (13 episodes)
• 2010; 2014: Psych (episodes 5x12 The Secret of Dual Spiers and 8x03)
• 2011: White Collar (episode 3x06)
• 2013: Blue Bloods - Crime Scene New York ( Blue Bloods , episode 3x20)
• 2013: Hostages (episodes 1x05-1x06)

Web links

• Dana Ashbrook in the Internet Movie Database (English)