Growing up in San Diego, becoming an actor came naturally to Dana Ashbrook. His father is the director of the Palomar College Department of Performing Arts, and his mother is a teacher who performs in local theater. His sisters, Daphne Ashbrook and Taylor Ashbrook, are also working actresses. His own career started while still in his teens, when ...
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Return of the Living Dead Part II, The Aggression Scale, Waxwork, Pythons 2, She's Out of Control, Ghost Dad, Girlfriend from Hell, The Opposite Sex, New Alcatraz, Angels Don't Sleep Here, Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat, The Willies, Hitler's Folly, Bonnie & Clyde: Th...
TV Shows
Crash, The Kill Point, Crisis Center, Twin Peaks
Star Sign
Gemini
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Friend of James Roday, who directed him in his 2004 play 'Sustenance'. Ashbrook starred in Roday's favorite show Twin Peaks (1990) and guest-starred in the Psych (2006) episode Roday wrote as an homage to "Twin Peaks". According to Roday, Ashbrook has been instrumental in helping some of the pieces fall in place for the episode.
Created with Robert Bauer a film company called Bauerbrook Films.
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Wrote a road movie script called "Driven To It" with friend Robert Bauer that David Lynch offered to executive produce (in name only) in order to help them, but Ashbrook and Bauer couldn't get financing for it.
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Got his SAG card when he appeared in the 1986 episode of Cagney & Lacey (1981).
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