Brooke Adams (actress)

Brooke Adams
Brooke Adams from a publicity photo for The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return, 1975
Born	(1949-02-08) February 8, 1949 (age 75)[1] New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1963–present
Spouse	Tony Shalhoub ​ (m. 1992)​
Children	2
Relatives	Lynne Adams (sister)

Brooke Adams (born February 8, 1949) is an American actress,^[2] best known for her film roles in Days of Heaven (1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and The Dead Zone (1983).

Early life

Adams was born on February 8, 1949, in New York City, to Rosalind (née Gould), an actress, and Robert K. Adams, who was a producer, actor, and former vice president of CBS, as well as an unverified descendant of presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams.^[3][4] Her sister is actress Lynne Adams. She attended the High School of Performing Arts and the School of American Ballet, and in her youth took dance classes at her aunt's studio in Montague, Michigan.^[5]

Career

After playing roles in television and low-budget films such as Shock Waves,^[6] Adams appeared in Days of Heaven (1978) and the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), for which she was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Actress. She has also starred in the films Cuba (1979), The Dead Zone (1983), Key Exchange^[7] (1985) and Gas Food Lodging (1992), the latter earning her a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female.

In 2002, she appeared in the romantic comedy Made-Up, which was written by her sister Lynne Adams and directed by her husband Tony Shalhoub. Adams also appeared in the films At Last and The Legend of Lucy Keyes (both 2005), starred on Broadway in The Cherry Orchard, Lend Me a Tenor, Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles (1990), and guest-starred in Monk, the series starring her husband, appearing in five different episodes, playing four different roles, and appearing once more in its TV movie Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie. She also guest starred with him in an episode of Wings several years before.

Personal life

Adams has been married to actor Tony Shalhoub since 1992.^[8] They have two daughters, both of whom were adopted.^[9]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1971	Murders in the Rue Morgue	Nurse (uncredited)
1974	The Great Gatsby	Party Guest (uncredited)
1974	The Lords of Flatbush	(uncredited)
1976	Car Wash	Terry	Scenes deleted
1977	Shock Waves	Rose
1978	Days of Heaven	Abby
1978	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Elizabeth Driscoll	Nominated—Saturn Award for Best Actress
1978	The First Great Train Robbery	(uncredited)
1979	A Man, a Woman and a Bank	Stacey Bishop
1979	Cuba	Alexandra Lopez de Pulido
1980	Tell Me a Riddle	Jeannie
1983	Utilities	Marion Edwards
1983	The Dead Zone	Sarah Bracknell
1984	Vengeance Is Mine	Jo	Alternate title: Haunted
1984	Terror in the Aisles	Elizabeth Driscoll	Archive footage
1985	Almost You	Erica Boyer
1985	The Stuff	Special guest star in Stuff commercial
1985	Key Exchange	Lisa
1987	Man on Fire	Jane
1991	The Unborn	Virginia Marshall	Nominated—Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actress
1992	Gas Food Lodging	Nora Evans	Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female
1995	The Baby-Sitters Club	Elizabeth Thomas Brewer
2002	Made-Up	Elizabeth James Tivey	Also producer
2003	Party Animals	Celeb Mother	Short film
2004	At Last	Carol Singleton
2006	The Legend of Lucy Keyes	Samantha Porter
2008	The Accidental Husband	Carolyn
2009	Gary's Walk	Marcia
2017	Breakable You	Ruth Frank
2018	Snapshots	Patty	Nominated—Nice International Film Festival Award for Best Supporting Actress
2019	Hamlet 360: Thy Father's Spirit	Gertrude	Video

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1963	East Side/West Side	Marky Morgan	Episode: "My Child on Monday Morning"
1965	O.K. Crackerby!	Cynthia Crackerby	14 episodes
1974	F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'	Kitty Preston	TV movie
1975	Who Is the Black Dahlia?	Diane Fowler	TV movie
1975	Song of the Succubus	Olive Deems / Gloria Chambers	TV movie
1975	Black Bart	Jennifer	TV short
1975	Murder on Flight 502	Vera Franklin	TV movie
1976	Police Woman	Angela	Episode: "Angela"
1976	James Dean	Beverly	TV movie
1976	The Bob Newhart Show	Mitzi Margolis	Episode: "The Boy Next Door"
1976	Kojak	Julie Winston	Episode: "Dead Again"
1977	Family	Lizzie	Episode: "Acts of Love: Part 1" Episode: "Acts of Love: Part 2"
1977	Nero Wolfe	Sarah Dacos	TV movie broadcast 1979
1978	Family	Lizzie	Episode: "Echoes of Love"
1983	Great Performances	Julia Newell	Episode: "The Innocents Abroad"
1984	Lace	Jennifer 'Pagan' Trelawney	TV movie
1984	Special People	Diane Dupuy	TV movie
1984	American Playhouse		Episode: "Haunted"
1985	Lace II	Pagan Tralone	TV miniseries
1986	American Playhouse	Julia Newell	Episode: "The Innocents Abroad"
1987	Paul Reiser Out on a Whim		TV movie
1987	The Lion of Africa	Grace Danet	TV movie
1988	Moonlighting	Terri Knowles	3 episodes
1989	Bridesmaids	Patricia	TV movie
1991	Sometimes They Come Back	Sally Norman	TV movie
1991	thirtysomething	Bree Ann Pratt	Episode: "Melissa in Wonderland"
1993	The Last Hit	Anna	TV movie
1994	Picture Windows	Angie Varnas	Episode: "Song of Songs"
1994	Probable Cause		TV movie
1994	Touched by an Angel	Susana	Episode: "An Unexpected Snow"
1995	Frasier	Marilyn (voice)	Episode: "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine"
1996	Wings	Mary	Episode: "All About Christmas Eve"
1997	Gun	Joyce	Episode: "Father John"
2002	Monk	Leigh Harrison	Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Airplane"
2005	Monk	Mrs. Abigail Carlyle	Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Kid"
2007	Monk	Sheriff Margie Butterfield	Episode: "Mr. Monk Visits a Farm"
2008	Monk	Leigh Harrison	Episode: "Mr. Monk's 100th Case"
2008	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Margo	Episode: "PTSD"
2009	Monk	Edith Capriani	Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Badge"
2012	Hemingway & Gellhorn	Madrid woman	TV movie
2016	BrainDead	Senator Diane Vaynerchuk	Recurring role, 5 episodes
2023	Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie	Beth	TV movie

References

1. Brooke Adams at Turner Classic Movies; retrieved March 15, 2023
2. Genzlinger, Neil (January 20, 2004). "An Actress of a Certain Age Eyes the Beauty Cult". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
3. Buckley, Tom (November 17, 1978). "At the Movies". The New York Times.
4. "Robert K. Adams, 72, a Producer Of Television and Theater Shows". The New York Times. February 16, 1981.
5. Adams, Brooke (December 6, 2017). "All She Wants to Do is Dance". The Huffington Post. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
6. Eleanor Mannikka (2008). "Shock Waves". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 31, 2008.
7. Canby, Vincent (August 14, 1985). "Key Exchange (1985) SCREEN: 'KEY EXCHANGE,' A COMEDY". The New York Times.
8. McColl, Katy (July 25, 2010). "Tony Shalhoub's Country Cottage". Country Living.
9. Gliatto, Tom (November 4, 1996). "Now He's Cooking". People.

External links

• Brooke Adams at IMDb