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My Take
Linden Ashby is one of those actors I knew long before I knew his name, which I mean as a compliment. For a generation he's Sheriff Noah Stilinski from Teen Wolf, the steady, decent dad anchoring all that supernatural chaos, and before that he was on Melrose Place. I've got a soft spot for him from Mortal Kombat too. The martial-arts background, karate and taekwondo, clearly fed into his action work and gave his physical performances credibility. He's a dependable character actor who shows up and grounds whatever he's in, and that kind of consistency over decades is genuinely underrated.
Overview
Clarence Linden Garnett Ashby III (born May 23, 1960) is an American actor. On television, he portrayed Brett Cooper on the final two seasons of the Fox soap opera Melrose Place (1997–1999) and Sheriff Noah Stilinski on all six seasons of the MTV supernatural drama Teen Wolf (2011–2017).
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Linden Ashby
- Name (Japanese)
- リンデン・アシュビー
- Reading
- りんでん・あしゅびー
- Born
- May 23, 1960 (age 66)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Rat
- Origin
- Atlantic Beach, Florida, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / karateka / taekwondo athlete / film actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Fort Lewis College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.