Alfred Ashford, 7th Earl Ashford

Dr. Charles Ashford is a fictional character from Resident Evil: Apocalypse, portrayed by Jared Harris.

Charles is a wheelchair-bound scientist employed by the Umbrella Corporation and the father of Angela Ashford whom the holographic representation of the Red Queen is modeled after.

In Apocalypse, Dr. Ashford was responsible for the creation of the t-virus, which could revive dead or dying cells, and although he created it for medical purposes, Umbrella took away the virus and perverted it by creating other viral agents. Before Umbrella took away his creation, Dr. Ashford managed to use the base T-Cells to cure his crippled daughter Angela. Charles was also responsible for the construction of The Hive and was the programmer for the Red Queen, whose holographic representation he modeled after Angela.

During the outbreak at Raccoon City, Dr. Ashford was among the many valuable employees whom Umbrella had evacuated before quarantining the city. His daughter was to be evacuated, but was involved in acar crash and never got out in time. Certain that his daughter was still alive, Ashford went behind Major Cain's back (who was firm in his belief that Angela was in fact dead) and contacted numerous survivors, including Alice, Jill Valentine and Carlos Olivera, and agreed to help them escape the city in return for rescuing his daughter. Although they succeeded, Major Timothy Cain intervened in Dr. Ashford's plan, all just to pit Alice against Nemesis. Ashford was briefly reunited with his daughter before Cain shot him in order to force Alice to fight. Ashford later came back as a Zombie and was among those who swarmed the injured Cain.