Scooby Doo star Heather North, who played Daphne in iconic cartoon, dead at 71 with Californian actress suffering longterm illness

Scooby-Doo and his gang – Fred “Freddie” Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and Norville “Shaggy” Rogers.,  The longtime voice of the danger-prone sleuth Daphne Blake from Scooby-Doo has died aged 71 in California. Heather North passed away at her home on November 30 in Studio City after a long illness, family friend Jodie Mann told The Hollywood Reporter. North was a widow, after her husband, Emmy Award…

Daphne Guinness Talks Fashion As Self Expression

“Genius too often springs from tortured minds—the link has been very much in my thoughts, for evident reasons,” Guinness says, touching on a possible correlation between creative greatness and a sensitive mental state. “But I think it would be somewhat fatalistic to say the two are inherently interconnected. I know some exceptional artists who are quite chirpy.”

Given her pedigree,…