Daisy Duke

Daisy Duke is a fictional character from the American television series The Dukes of Hazzard. She is the cousin of the protagonists, Bo and Luke, and all three live on a farm on the outskirts of Hazzard County with their Uncle Jesse. In the television series and the films The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! (1997) and The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000) she was played by Catherine Bach. In the 2005 film,The Dukes of Hazzard, she was played by Jessica Simpson, and by April Scott in the 2007 prequel film The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning Although never mentioned in the series itself, some press material for the show suggests that Daisy's parents, along with Bo and Luke's, were killed in a car accident; in the 1997 reunion movie, Daisy says her mother died when she was a baby. The series never explained how they all came to live with Uncle Jesse. Daisy frequently becomes involved in the Dukes' car chases, originally in her Plymouth Road Runner or, from the mid-second season onwards and more famously, in her Jeep. Daisy also works as a waitress at the Boar's Nest, the local tavern owned by Boss Hogg that was the main meeting place in Hazzard. She also aspires to be both a singer-songwriter and a journalist.