--- title: Ashley Jones description: Celebrate Ashley Jones' birthday with her career on The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless, True Blood and more. canonical_url: https://marktheday.info/ashley-jones language: en-GB date: 2026-09-02T17:34:52Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://marktheday.info/ashley-jones. Schema.org structured data included at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. markdown-tokens: 3050 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://marktheday.info/ashley-jones. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Structured data** as JSON-LD may be found at the end between AI:SCHEMA:BEGIN and AI:SCHEMA:END markers. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. Ashley Aubra Jones was born on September 3, 1976, in Memphis, Tennessee, although her family moved around during her childhood before settling in Texas. She grew up in the Houston area and developed an interest in performing at an early age. Long before she became familiar to millions of television viewers, Jones was already appearing in theatrical productions and discovering that pretending to be somebody else could become considerably more than a childhood pastime. She attended Lamar High School in Houston and continued developing her acting skills while still young. Jones began working professionally during her teenage years, entering an industry in which persistence is nearly as important as talent. Television soon became the principal home for her career. One of her early screen appearances came in the television movie The Fire Next Time, and she subsequently accumulated guest roles while establishing herself as a working actress. Her early credits included appearances on television series such as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Then daytime television came calling. Jones joined the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless in 1997 as Megan Dennison. Soap operas can be demanding training grounds for actors because of their rapid production schedules, enormous quantities of dialogue and storylines that can change direction with remarkable speed. An actor may begin the week discussing a family disagreement and finish it discovering a secret marriage, unexpected pregnancy and previously unknown evil twin. Megan Dennison quickly gave Jones substantial material to play. She became involved with Tony Viscardi and was drawn into the complicated network of relationships that makes Genoa City such an extraordinarily eventful place to live. Jones remained with The Young and the Restless until 2000. Her work earned her Daytime Emmy Award nominations, including recognition as a younger actress and later in the supporting actress category. The nominations established Jones as one of daytime television's notable young performers and provided an important foundation for the career that followed. After leaving Genoa City, Jones broadened her television résumé with appearances outside daytime drama. Her credits included guest roles on series such as Strong Medicine, The District, Without a Trace and CSI: NY. She also appeared in films and television movies, steadily building the sort of diverse résumé necessary for a character actor hoping to remain employed in an unpredictable profession. Then, in 2004, Jones entered another famous CBS soap opera — and found the role that would become most closely associated with her career. She joined The Bold and the Beautiful as Dr. Bridget Forrester, a character who already possessed a long and complicated history. Bridget is the daughter of Brooke Logan and Eric Forrester, placing her directly inside two of the families responsible for a substantial percentage of Los Angeles' fictional romantic difficulties. Taking over an established soap character can be particularly challenging. Longtime viewers already know how the character behaves, whom she loves, whom she dislikes and approximately how many family disasters she has survived. Jones nevertheless made Bridget her own and became one of the actresses most strongly identified with the role. Bridget's profession as a physician occasionally suggested she might represent the sensible wing of the Forrester family. This was optimistic. Her personal life proved every bit as complicated as viewers of The Bold and the Beautiful would expect. Bridget's romantic history included relationships and marriages that repeatedly placed her at the center of the show's sprawling family conflicts. Among the most important was her relationship with Nick Marone, played by Jack Wagner. Their romance became a major part of Bridget's storyline, complicated by Nick's history with Bridget's mother, Brooke. On an ordinary television program, discovering that your romantic partner has also been romantically involved with your mother might encourage everyone to reconsider their choices. On The Bold and the Beautiful, it is practically a scheduling issue. Jones handled storylines involving marriage, betrayal, pregnancy, infertility, grief and complicated family loyalties. Soap actors frequently have to move from emotional devastation to everyday conversation within the same production schedule, and Jones became particularly effective at giving Bridget a mixture of vulnerability and resilience. She appeared regularly on The Bold and the Beautiful for several years before shifting to recurring appearances. The character has subsequently returned at various times, allowing Jones to revisit Bridget and giving longtime viewers the familiar pleasure of seeing a member of the Forrester family return just as everyone else's lives are becoming complicated enough already. While still strongly associated with daytime television, Jones made a dramatic move into premium cable with HBO's True Blood. Beginning in the show's second season in 2009, she played Daphne Landry, a waitress at Merlotte's Bar and Grill. At first, Daphne appeared to be another employee joining the eccentric collection of humans and supernatural beings inhabiting Bon Temps, Louisiana. Naturally, things were not that simple. Daphne became romantically involved with Sam Merlotte, played by Sam Trammell. Sam was a shapeshifter, capable of transforming into animals. Instead of responding to this revelation by immediately reconsidering the relationship, Daphne revealed that she was also a shapeshifter. For once, finding out that your new romantic partner occasionally turns into an animal actually simplified matters. Unfortunately for Sam, Daphne was connected to Maryann Forrester, the mysterious and increasingly dangerous maenad played by Michelle Forbes. Daphne's relationship with Sam therefore concealed a betrayal, and her involvement in Maryann's plans eventually placed her in considerable danger. The role was very different from Bridget Forrester. True Blood combined horror, fantasy, romance, violence and dark comedy, giving Jones an opportunity to play within a world where the relationship problems could result not merely in divorce papers but in somebody being eaten. Daphne's storyline was comparatively brief, but the character became memorable because of her connection with Sam and the revelation of her true allegiance. For viewers who knew Jones primarily from daytime television, seeing Bridget Forrester wandering around supernatural Louisiana was quite a change of scenery. Jones continued moving between daytime television and prime-time roles. Her guest appearances have included popular series such as The Mentalist, Criminal Minds, Private Practice, Bones, NCIS and Castle. These roles allowed her to work in crime dramas, medical programs and procedurals rather than remaining permanently associated with soap operas. She also appeared in the film Old School, the 2003 comedy starring Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn. It was another departure from the emotional intensity of daytime drama and demonstrated the breadth of projects scattered throughout her career. Jones later joined the long-running daytime soap General Hospital, appearing as Parker Forsyth. Parker was a professor who had previously been involved with Kristina Corinthos-Davis, played by Lexi Ainsworth. The storyline placed Jones inside yet another enormous soap-opera universe, meaning that by this point she had worked on The Young and the Restless, The Bold and the Beautiful and General Hospital — an impressive tour through American daytime television. Her television work has also included numerous made-for-TV films, particularly thrillers and dramas. Jones has repeatedly proven well suited to the format, where performers are often required to establish characters and emotional stakes quickly. Yet Bridget Forrester remains the defining role of her career. Jones has returned to The Bold and the Beautiful repeatedly over the years rather than making a single clean departure from the series. That continuing relationship has allowed the character to remain connected to major family events and provided longtime viewers with continuity stretching across decades. That longevity is significant. Daytime television develops an unusually close relationship with its audience because viewers may follow the same families and characters for years or even generations. Actors who return to established roles become part of that shared history. Jones also belongs to the comparatively small group of performers who have successfully moved between daytime drama and other television genres without abandoning either. Her soap work provided substantial dramatic material, while projects such as True Blood demonstrated that she could comfortably enter a completely different television world. The contrast is particularly entertaining. On The Bold and the Beautiful, Bridget Forrester faces romantic betrayals, marriages, pregnancies and complicated relatives. On True Blood, Daphne Landry faces shapeshifters, vampires and supernatural cult-like manipulation. Depending upon the particular week in the Forrester household, the distinction may not be as large as it sounds. Jones has also worked behind the camera as a producer on some projects, extending her involvement in the entertainment industry beyond acting. Like many performers with long careers, she has gradually expanded the range of work she undertakes rather than relying entirely upon being cast in front of a camera. Her career demonstrates the value of versatility and persistence. She began acting professionally while young, earned Daytime Emmy recognition during her years on The Young and the Restless, inherited an established character on The Bold and the Beautiful, entered the supernatural madness of True Blood and continued appearing across television genres. Born on September 3, Ashley Jones has spent much of her professional life inhabiting television worlds where peaceful relationships are apparently prohibited by network policy. From Megan Dennison and Bridget Forrester to Daphne Landry and Parker Forsyth, she has played women navigating romance, betrayal, family turmoil and occasionally supernatural danger. After all those years in daytime television, however, True Blood may have offered one unexpected advantage. 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