Woman Police Constable Phyllis Dobbs is a fictional character of BBC One's science fiction/police procedural drama, Life on Mars. The character is portrayed by Noreen Kershaw. The character does not appear in Life on Mars' spin-off, Ashes to Ashes and no reference is made to the whereabouts or status of the character, however due to the nature of the world in which Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes are set, is likely that Phyllis has moved on to the next life and was already dead in the real world.