Linden Ashby

Linden Ashby is an American actor best known for his role as Johnny Cage in the 1995 film Mortal Kombat.

He currently portrays Beacon Hills’ Sheriff and father to Stiles Stilinski on MTV’s Teen Wolf .

Ashby dropped out of college in his junior year to pursue an acting career. He studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York alongside Tom Cruise and Dylan McDermott.

His first big role came in 1987 when he played Lawrence Graf von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow in a TV movie about the real life playboy and his mother, socialite Barbara Hutton. The film, Poor Little Rich Girl, went on to win the Golden Globe for best miniseries that year.

Ashby did a number of notable guest roles on popular shows in the late 80s and 90s including China Beach and MacGyver. He met his wife, actress Susan Walters, while filming a guest role on the ABC daytime drama LOVING in 1989. He returned to soaps in 2003 taking on the role of Cameron Kirsten on The Young and the Restless. Most recently, in 2008, he played Paul Hollingsworth on Days of Our Lives.

He is well known for his work on the nighttime soap Melrose Place. Ashby played Dr. Coop Cooper for two seasons in 1997 and 1998.

Teen Wolf is not Ashby’s first brush with lycanthropy, he fell victim to the titular character in Fox Television’s short-lived series Werewolf back in 1987.

Ashby also shares a credit with Teen Wolf Alpha Ian Bohen, both appeared in Kevin Costner’s epic Wyatt Earp in 1994.