Personal Info
Birth date
1949-02-08 (76 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
Брук Адамс
بروک آدامز
Brooke Adams
Biography
Brooke Adams (born February 8, 1949) is an American actress known for her compelling performances in film, television, and theatre. She gained recognition for her roles in movies like "Days of Heaven" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," showcasing her acting depth and versatility. Adams' talent and dedication to her craft have earned her acclaim in the entertainment industry. On television, she has appeared in Thirtysomething (1987), Moonlighting (1985), Family (1976), The Lion of Africa (1987), Special People (1984), the miniseries Lace (1984) and Lace II (1985), 5 episodes of Monk (2002), BrainDead (2016) on CBS and she was writing, producing, directing, and starring in a web-series called "All Downhill from Here." (2015).
Filmography
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.936
Overview:
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
7.5
Overview:
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.Monk
8
Overview:
Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.Frasier
7.685
Overview:
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets shot in the hip on duty.Great Performances
5.5
Overview:
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.Wings
6.8
Overview:
Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and employees.Police Woman
6.2
Overview:
Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.Touched by an Angel
7.2
Overview:
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.Kojak
7.028
Overview:
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.Moonlighting
7.5
Overview:
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.thirtysomething
6.3
Overview:
Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in the U.S. on September 29, 1987. It lasted four seasons, with the last of its 85 episodes airing on May 28, 1991. The title of the show was designed as thirtysomething by Kathie Broyles, who combined the words of the original title, Thirty Something. In 1997, "The Go Between" and "Samurai Ad Man" were ranked #22 on TV Guide′s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2002, Thirtysomething was ranked #19 on TV Guide′s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide ranked it #10 in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time.Stars in the House
NYR
Overview:
In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his husband, producer James Wesley have created Stars in the House, a daily live streamed series to support The Actors Fund and its services.The Great Gatsby
6.3
Overview:
Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.Murder on Flight 502
5.7
Overview:
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.Tell Me a Riddle
6
Overview:
A long-married couple embark on one last cross-country journey when it is discovered that the wife is dying. Together they try to reconnect with their estranged daughter before it is too late.Bolio: Spirit of the Mustang
NYR
Overview:
Down-on-his-luck high school shop teacher Dale finds himself awkwardly entangled with aspiring life coach, Chuck. Reluctantly accepting Chuck’s power of positive thinking and take-charge approach, Dale begins to come out of his shell. Through their budding friendship, Dale begins to repair what is broken, until he discovers that Chuck may not be all that he seems.Invasion of the Body Snatchers
7.2
Overview:
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.Gas Food Lodging
6.3
Overview:
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.Murders in the Rue Morgue
5.2
Overview:
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.Sometimes They Come Back
5.88
Overview:
Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school in the town where his brother was murdered in front of him by teenage bullies twenty-seven years before. The teens who committed the crime are long dead, but now the kids in Jim's new class keep dying and being replaced by new students who look like the deceased hoodlums.Days of Heaven
7.5
Overview:
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.The Stuff
5.98
Overview:
Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!The Lion of Africa
5.7
Overview:
Brooke Adams plays a woman who has to put up with Brian Dennehy's character if she wants to get across a desolate section of Africa. They fight and naturally sparks fly.Almost You
5.3
Overview:
Alex and Erica Boyer are a young couple in crisis. Alex, despite his loving wife, beautiful home and high-paying job, feels trapped. When Erica has an accident that leaves her temporarily confined to a wheelchair and requiring the services of a private nurse, the beautiful Lisa enters the Boyers' lives. A complicated situation develops as Alex sees Lisa as the cure for his own problems as well as his wife's.Black Bart
3.7
Overview:
A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's original title). It featured Lou Gossett, Jr. as Bart and Steve Landesberg as his drunkard sidekick, a former Confederate officer named "Reb Jordan". The Humour was much more toned down than it's feature film predecessor Other cast members included Millie Slavin and Noble Willingham. Bergman is listed as the sole creator. CBS aired the pilot once on April 4, 1975 as a CBS Special Presentation. The pilot featured guest appearances by Gerrit Graham and Brooke Adams and was written by Michael Elias and Rich Eustis. Elias and Eutis later created and executive produced the ABC sitcom Head of the Class (1986-1991).Probable Cause
4.8
Overview:
A series of cop murders plagues the city. The remaining officers on the force are increasingly worried as the deaths increase with no leads. As the department's finest must solve the case before the killer strikes again.The Dead Zone
7.013
Overview:
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.Acting
TBABolio: Spirit of the Mustang as Unknown
2023Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie as Beth
2020Stars in the House (2 Episodes) as Self
2018Snapshots as Patty
2017Breakable You as Ruth Frank
2015Guns for Hire as Secretary
2014Sole Survivor: Interview with Star Brooke Adams as Herself
2012Hemingway & Gellhorn as Madrid Woman (uncredited)
2008The Accidental Husband as Carolyn
2006The Politics of the Dead Zone as Self
2006The Legend of Lucy Keyes as Samantha Porter
2003Party Animals as Celeb Mother
2002Monk (2, 1, 1, 1 Episode) as Leigh Harrison, Edith Capriani, Sheriff Margie Butterfield, Abigail Carlyle
2002Made-Up as Elizabeth James Tivey
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Margo
1997Gun as Joyce
1995Picture Windows (1 Episode) as Angie Varnas
1995The Baby-Sitters Club as Elizabeth Thomas Brewer
1994Probable Cause as (uncredited)
1994The Fire This Time as Narrator (voice)
1994Picture Windows: Song of Songs as Angie Varnas
1994Touched by an Angel (1 Episode) as Susana
1993Frasier (1 Episode) as Marilyn (voice)
1993The Last Hit as Anna Dunne
1992Gas Food Lodging as Nora
1991Sometimes They Come Back as Sally Norman
1991The Unborn as Virginia Marshall
1990Wings (1 Episode) as Mary
1989Bridesmaids as Pat
1987Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim as Unknown
1987thirtysomething (1 Episode) as Unknown
1987Man on Fire as Jane
1987The Lion of Africa as Grace Danet
1985Lace 2 as Pagan Trewlawny
1985Key Exchange as Lisa
1985The Stuff as Stuff Commercial Spokeswoman
1985Lace II (2 Episodes) as Pagan Tralone
1985Almost You as Erica Boyer
1985Moonlighting (3 Episodes) as Terri Knowles
1984Special People as Diane Dupuy
1984Lace (2 Episodes) as Jennifer 'Pagan' Trelawney
1984Vengeance Is Mine as Jo
1983The Dead Zone as Sarah Bracknell
1983Utilities as Marion Edwards
1983The Innocents Abroad as Julia Newell
1980Tell Me a Riddle as Jeannie
1979Cuba as Alexandra Lopez de Pulido
1979Nero Wolfe as Sarah Dacos
1979A Man, a Woman and a Bank as Stacey Bishop
1978Invasion of the Body Snatchers as Elizabeth Driscoll
1978Days of Heaven as Abby
1977Shock Waves as Rose
1976Family (1 Episode) as Unknown
1976James Dean as Beverly
1975Murder on Flight 502 as Vera Franklin
1975Song of the Succubus as Olive Deems / Gloria Chambers
1975Who Is the Black Dahlia? as Diane Fowler
1975The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return as Mae
1975Black Bart as Jennifer
1975Minestrone as Announcer
1974Police Woman (1 Episode) as Unknown
1974The Great Gatsby as Party Guest (uncredited)
1974F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles as Kitty Preston
1973Kojak (1 Episode) as Julie Winston
1971Murders in the Rue Morgue as Nurse (uncredited)
1971Great Performances (1 Episode) as Julia Newell
1965O.K. Crackerby (17 Episodes) as Cynthia Crackerby
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1 Episode) as Self