Daphne Blake

Daphne Blake is a fashion-loving character in the long-running American animated series Scooby-Doo. Daphne, depicted as coming from a wealthy family, is noted for her red hair, her fashion sense, her catch phrase ("Jeepers!"), and her tendency to get into danger, hence earning from Fred the nickname'' "Danger-prone Daphne." ''She lives at 9000 Easy Street, Coolsville.

Appearance
Daphne has shoulder length orange hair and blue eyes. Both her dress and shoes are purple as it is her favorite color. During Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, she use to wear a green ascot. She always knows about fashion, she never wears clothes that don't match, with the exception of when she appeared using one purple shoe with a green one (in What's New, Scooby-Doo? but it wasn't really her). In What's New, Scooby-Doo?, she sometimes uses a green purse that has every kind of thing inside. Even if her clothes change, they stay the colour purple.

Abilities
Daphne has displayed many abilities during the show: she has a black belt in Karate, she can use different kinds of weapons, she can use her make up acessories to open locked doors and cages, she is very flexible and can think quickly during a fight as shown in the movies.

Actresses portraying Daphne
Daphne was voiced in the first season (1969-70) of Scooby-Doo, Where are You? by Indira Stefanianna Christopherson. When Christopherson married in 1970, Heather North assumed her role. North continued to voice Daphne until 1980, when Daphne was dropped from the series.

Daphne returned to Scooby-Dooby-Doo with The All-New Scooby and Happy-Puppy Hour Show in 1983, and North resumed her role as voice actress until Scooby-Doo was cancelled in 1986. North returned to play Daphne in the Johnny Bravo-Scooby Doo crossover episode before taking leave again. She returned once again to play Daphne in Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire and Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico before leaving for good. Kellie Martin voiced the junior-high school aged Daphne in the Pup Named Scooby-Doo series from 1988 until 1991. Recent voice actresses have included the late Mary Kay Bergman (1998 - 2000) and Grey DeLisle (2001 - current). In two of the live-action Scooby-Doo films, Daphne is portrayed by Sarah Michelle Gellar. In the third live-action Scooby-Doo movie, she is portrayed by Kate Melton.

Character Biography
Together with her other cohorts, Fred "Freddie" Jones, Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, Velma Dinkley, and Shaggy's pet Great Dane Scooby-Doo (Scoobert), Daphne would engage in solving various mysteries the gang would run across. She was often portrayed as the stereotypical "damsel in distress", being the one female in the group who was most likely to get kidnapped, tied up, and left helpless in some hiding-place. She is the actual owner of the Mystery Machine, though Fred always drives it.

While not as smart as Velma, Daphne would always solve her problems in a different way. The character later became more confident and started playing a more active role as time went on, a result of changing attitudes towards women during the 1970s and 1980s. In What's New, Scooby Doo?, Daphne has also been known to open locks or do other tasks with strange items from her purse. It has been theorized by many viewers that Daphne and Fred are attracted to one another, something the later direct-to-video features and the Warner Bros. Feature films toyed with while never officially putting them together. In Scooby Doo! The Mystery Begins, they make out.

Daphne's character is more danger prone in the early Scooby-Doo spinoffs, when the focus of the series briefly shifted to her, Scooby-Doo, Scrappy-Doo, and Shaggy. This was particularly noteworthy in the spinoff The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.

The A Pup Named Scooby-Doo version of a youthful Daphne would commonly call upon her butler, Jenkins, to do various tasks, such as ridding her of people, beating a monster up, etc. This version was also portrayed as much more fashion-sensitive than the mature Daphne.

Family & Relatives
Relatives of Daphne shown during the series' run include:

Barty Blake: Daphne's father, the creator of the product "Blake's Bubbles."

Nan Blake: Daphne's mother.

Daisy: Daphne's sister, a doctor

Dawn: Daphne's sister, a model

Dorothy: Daphne's sister, race car driver

Delilah: Daphne's sister, in the army

Uncle Matt: Daphne's uncle, a cattle rancher.

John Maxwell: Daphne's uncle, a film director.

Olivia Derby: Daphne's aunt.

Jennifer: Daphne's cousin.

Dannika: Daphne's cousin, a famous French model.

Shannon Blake: Daphne's Scottish cousin.

Uncle Blake: Daphne's uncle and also a hotel owner of Blake's Hotel.

Uncle John: Film director. He was being haunted by a gladiator ghost whilst filming in the Colliseum.

Trivia

 * Daphne is the true owner of the Mystery Machine, which many believe Fred is.


 * As a member of the Blake family she is likely to get into danger.
 * A common goof throughout episodes would be the disappearance of one or more of Daphne's pink tights, replaced with her natural skin color in some stills.
 * Daphne's eye color is completely variable, ranging from black, blue, green and even purple.
 * In Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated Daphne is shown to be a babysitter. She's also revealed to be allergic to imitation animal skin (i.e. fake fur) and seafood.