Daphne Blake is a fictional character in the long-running American animated series Scooby Doo.

Daphne, who comes 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."

Together with her other teenage cohorts, Fred "Freddie" Jones, Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, Velma Dinkley, and Shaggy's pet Great Dane Scooby-Doo, Daphne would engage in solving various mysteries the gang would run across.

While not as smart as Velma, Daphne would attempt to solve her problems in a fashionable way.

Daphne gained more prominence in the mid-1980s 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.

Allegedly, her father helped paid for the van the gang drives around in, the psychedelically-painted "Mystery Machine."

Trivia

• Daphne was voiced in the first season of Scooby-Doo, Where are You! by Stefanianna Christopherson in 1969; from 1970 until 1985 she was voiced by Heather North . Later voice actresses have included Mary Kay Bergman (1998 - 1999) and Grey DeLisle (2000 - current). In the two live-action Scooby Doo films, Daphne is played by Sarah Michelle Gellar.