Brooke Adams

Highest Rated: 93% Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Lowest Rated: 0% At Last (2005)

Birthday: Feb 8, 1949

Birthplace: Not Available

The daughter of actors, Brooke Adams was once praised by the press for her supremely flexible countenance -- with expressions and demeanors to accommodate virtually any emotion or situation. Adams attended New York's High School of Performing Arts and the Institute of American Ballet, and took private acting lessons from Lee Strasberg. At age six, she made her Broadway debut in the 1954 revival of Finian's Rainbow. Eleven years later, she was cast as Burl Ives' teenaged daughter in the extremely short-lived TV sitcom O.K. Crackerby (1965-1966) on ABC.Adams then kept a low professional profile until making her adult off-Broadway bow in 1974, appearing in yet another revival, The Petrified Forest. A great future was predicted for Brooke when she starred as Abby, the romantic bone of contention between Richard Gere and Sam Shepard in Terrence Malick's critically acclaimed 1978 film, Days of Heaven. That same year, she played Elizabeth Driscoll (the Dana Wynter role) in the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, opposite Donald Sutherland, and in 1979 she was Sean Connery's ethereal leading lady in the Richard Lester-directed Cuba. Any one of those three roles could have spelled superstardom for Brooke -- had she really wanted to be a superstar. Instead, she deliberately avoided the trappings of celebritydom, preferring to measure her achievements by her own standards rather than Hollywood's. And, if that meant accepting "small" but artistically rewarding theatrical projects or teaching acting classics to emotionally disturbed children, rather than accepting a role in the latest Spielberg or Scorsese blockbuster, so be it. Brooke Adams' more notable credits during the mid- to late '80s and '90s included guest appearances on TV's Moonlighting (as single mother and David Addison Lamaze partner Terri Knowles), a role in the Broadway production The Heidi Chronicles, the narration duties for the 1994 miniseries The Fire This Time, and the role of Ione Skye's hardscrabble mother in the Allison Anders-directed Gas Food Lodging (1992). These represented high points, however, and more often than not, Adams found herself relegated to parts unworthy of her, such as the unevenly received 1985 adaptation of Kevin Wade's play Key Exchange (in which she reprised her stage role) and the histrionic TV movies Lace (1984) and Lace II (1985).In subsequent years, Adams made a greater splash on television, with guest appearances on such series programs as Wings, Monk (both opposite husband Tony Shalhoub), and Touched by an Angel. She also returned to the big screen for supporting roles in several projects, including the 1995 Baby-Sitters Club and the 2007 Griffin Dunne-directed romantic comedy The Accidental Husband.

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Filmography

Movies

		Credit
71%	Snapshots	Patty	—	2018
No Score Yet	Guns for Hire	Secretary	—	2015
6%	The Accidental Husband	Carolyn	—	2009
No Score Yet	The Legend of Lucy Keyes	Samantha Porter	—	2006
0%	At Last	Carol Singleton	—	2005
41%	Made-Up	Producer Elizabeth James Tivey	—	2004
No Score Yet	Spider-Man 2.1 (Extended Cut)	Actor	—	2004
67%	The Baby-Sitters Club	Elizabeth Thomas Brewer	—	1995
No Score Yet	Picture Windows	Actor	—	1995
No Score Yet	The Fire This Time	Narrator	—	1994
14%	My Boyfriend's Back	Young Missy	—	1993
No Score Yet	The Last Hit	Anna	—	1993
80%	Gas Food Lodging	Nora	—	1992
67%	Sometimes They Come Back	Sally	—	1991
No Score Yet	The Unborn	Virginia	—	1991
No Score Yet	Bridesmaids	Pat	—	1989
No Score Yet	Paul Reiser: Out On a Whim	Actor	—	1988
No Score Yet	Man on Fire	Jane Balletto	—	1987
No Score Yet	Lion of Africa	Grace Danet	—	1987
50%	Key Exchange	Lisa	—	1985
69%	The Stuff	Girl in Stuff Commercial	—	1985
No Score Yet	Almost You	Erica Boyer	—	1985
No Score Yet	Special People	Actor	—	1984
No Score Yet	Lace	Actor	—	1984
No Score Yet	The Innocents Abroad	Julia	—	1984
91%	The Dead Zone	Sarah	—	1983
No Score Yet	Utilities	Marion Edwards	—	1983
No Score Yet	Tell Me a Riddle	Jeannie	—	1980
45%	Cuba	Alexandra Pulido	—	1979
No Score Yet	A Man, a Woman and a Bank	Stacey Bishop	—	1979
73%	The Great Train Robbery	Actor	—	1979
93%	Invasion of the Body Snatchers	Elizabeth Driscoll	—	1978
92%	Days of Heaven	Abby	—	1978
No Score Yet	Shock Waves	Rose	—	1977
No Score Yet	James Dean	Beverly	—	1976
No Score Yet	Murder on Flight 502	Actor	—	1975
No Score Yet	F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles'	Kitty Preston	—	1974

TV

		Credit
No Score Yet	The Amazing Race 25 2014	Reality cast member	2014
No Score Yet	Criminal Minds 2005	Lindsay Leeman	2012
90%	Monk 2002-2009	Sheriff Butterfield Leigh Harrison Leigh Abigail Carlyle	2009 2008 2007 2005 2002
No Score Yet	Wings 1990-1997	Nun	1996
94%	Frasier 1993-2004	Guest	1995
No Score Yet	Touched by an Angel 1994-2003		1994
97%	Moonlighting 1985-1989	Terri Knowles	1988
No Score Yet	American Playhouse 1982-1996		1984
No Score Yet	Kojak 1973-1978	Julie	1976
No Score Yet	The Bob Newhart Show 1972-1978	Mitzi Margolis	1976
No Score Yet	Great Performances 2000

QUOTES FROM Brooke Adams CHARACTERS

Robert Dapes says: I'm not asking you to go on a holiday!

Alexandra Pulido says: Don't shout. [pours some coffee] Robert, it's very nice of you, and I know what you're saying. But I don't really know you, do I? You knew me when I was a silly girl of fifteen...

Alexandra Pulido says: Don't shout. Robert, it's very nice of you and I know what you're saying. But I don't really know you, do I? You knew me when I was a silly girl of fifteen.

Robert Dapes says: Seventeen!

Alexandra Pulido says: [deep breath] ...fifteen. I fell in love with a handsome British soldier; you know what I remember most about you? Your knees!

Alexandra Pulido says: Fifteen. I fell in love with a handsome British soldier. You know what I remember most about you? Your knees!

Elizabeth Thomas Brewer says: Are you crying?

Kristy Brewer says: I have allergies, OK?

Kristy Brewer says: I have allergies, okay?

Elizabeth Thomas Brewer says: What are you allergic to?

Kristy Brewer says: Summer!

Girl in Stuff Commercial says: When I was a little girl I didn't think there was anything I like better than ice-cream. Now I'm a big girl. And I decided there's something I like better...much better. It's called The Stuff. And believe me...now is never enough.

Girl in Stuff Commercial says: When I was a little girl I didn't think there was anything I like better than ice-cream. Now I'm a big girl. And I decided there's something I like better, much better. It's called The Stuff. And believe me, now is never enough.