Dana Ashbrook: biography and selected filmography

Dana Ashbrook is an American-born actor known for his roles in films and TV shows such as Return of the Living Dead 2, Wax Museum, Clash, etc. The role of Bobby Briggs in the multi-part mystical drama Twin Peaks brought him special popularity. . The article describes the most popular projects from the filmography of the actor.

Dana Ashbrook: biography

Dana Vernon Ashbrook was born in 1967 in the American city of San Diego, located on the Pacific coast of California, in the family of teacher Dee Ann and director of Palomar College Vernon L. Ashbrooke. He is the brother of writer Taylor Ashbrook and actress Daphne Ashbrook. Since 2015, married to the American film and television actress Kate Rogal.

Despite the fact that Dana’s career began in 1978, when he played a cameo in the James Stephen World comedy horror film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, he got the next role only after 8 years.

Girlfriend from Twin Peaks

In 1986, Dana Ashbrook's acting career restarted. He starred in the fifth season of CBS’s crime drama Kagney and Lacy (1981–1988). Then he got a role in two episodes of the soap opera by David Jacobs "Quiet Pier" (1979-1993). And in 1987 he got into the main part of Ken Widerhorn's comedy horror film “Return of the Living Dead 2” about how the gas trioxin spilled by curious children again awakens the army of hungry and bloodthirsty dead.

In 1988, the actor played Tony - one of the visitors to the mysterious museum in the comedy horror film Anthony Hickox's “Wax Museum”. Also in the role of Chasher, the devil hunter who mastered the body of a schoolgirl, he performed in the fantasy comedy of Dan Peterson's “Girlfriend from Hell” (1989). And in 1990, 1991 and 2017 he participated in the filming of David Lynch's mystical drama “Twin Peaks”, where he played the role of Bobby Briggs, the boyfriend of the deceased Laura Palmer.

Bonnie and Clyde Bay

In 1992, Gary Hoffman’s television movie Bonnie and Clyde: A True Story supplemented the filmography of Dana Ashbrooke, in which he played Clyde Barrow, a partner of Bonnie Parker, a famous and dangerous robber who traded during the Great Depression.

The actor also portrayed the virologist Dylan Bledsow in William Malone’s science fiction film “The Strange World” (1995). And the role of the twin brothers, Michael and Jesse, he got in the thriller Paul Cade "Angels do not live here" (2000).

From 2002 to 2003 Dana played the cruel and greedy stockbroker Rich Rinaldi in the teenage drama Kevin Williamson's Dawson's Creek. He also tried on the image of fraudster Jimmy in 13 episodes of the drama series Glen Mazzara's “Clash” (2008–2009) and replenished the main cast of Steven S. Miller’s action movie “The Scale of Aggression” (2011), which tells how four hitmen find themselves in the same house with an expansive teenager with a tendency to violence.

Hitler's abstinence

In 2016, Dana Ashbrook got the lead role in Bill Plimpton's comedy film Hitler's Madness. A year later, he starred in the comedy drama of Daniel Robuck - Getting Grace. And in the same year appeared in the thriller Adam Kushman's "Abstinence."

In addition, the production of two projects with the participation of the actor has already been completed. We are talking about the biographical drama of Drew Pollins - Ice Cream in the Cupboard and the documentary of Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce - DeLorean. Also, preparations are underway for the filming of the crime thriller Peter Engert - Harmless, based on the real story of the abduction of an 8-year-old girl in 1969.