Brooke Adams

Brooke Adams

Birthday: 1949-02-08

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA

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).

Movies

Murders in the Rue Morgue
Murders in the Rue Morgue

In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue ...

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The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's ho...

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the ph...

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Shock Waves
Shock Waves

Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of z...

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The Legend of Lucy Keyes
The Legend of Lucy Keyes

When an urban family moves to a rural New England town with secrets, little do they know that their ...

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The Accidental Husband
The Accidental Husband

Emma, a radio host, is about to be married to Richard, her perfect match. But right before her weddi...

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Sometimes They Come Back
Sometimes They Come Back

Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school...

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Hemingway & Gellhorn
Hemingway & Gellhorn

Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn....

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Cuba
Cuba

A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army ...

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Days of Heaven
Days of Heaven

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle w...

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Gas Food Lodging
Gas Food Lodging

Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop d...

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The Baby-Sitters Club
The Baby-Sitters Club

Seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experienc...

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Man on Fire
Man on Fire

Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daug...

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A Man, a Woman and a Bank
A Man, a Woman and a Bank

Two novice thieves are plotting to rob a bank in Vancouver. A photographer snaps a shot of one thief...

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The Innocents Abroad
The Innocents Abroad

Adaptation of the Mark Twain novel....

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Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim
Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim

Paul Reiser brings his sophisticated observational humor to home video in this rare showcase of his ...

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The Unborn
The Unborn

Joy turns to horror when a pregnant mother discovers the nightmarish truth behind her doctor's unexp...

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Murder on Flight 502
Murder on Flight 502

On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airlin...

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Black Bart
Black Bart

A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story ...

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Who Is the Black Dahlia?
Who Is the Black Dahlia?

In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old...

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The Fire This Time
The Fire This Time

Social conditions of Los Angeles are considered in drawing parallels between Watts riots and those i...

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The Lion of Africa
The Lion of Africa

Brooke Adams plays a woman who has to put up with Brian Dennehy's character if she wants to get acro...

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Utilities
Utilities

One of Bob Hunt's neighbours' electricity is cut off because she cannot pay the bill. She is assiste...

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Tell Me a Riddle
Tell Me a Riddle

A long-married couple embark on one last cross-country journey when it is discovered that the wife i...

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The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return
The Daughters of Joshua Cabe Return

A crusty old rancher hires three young women to pose as his daughters. However, the real father of o...

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Almost You
Almost You

Alex and Erica Boyer are a young couple in crisis. Alex, despite his loving wife, beautiful home and...

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Nero Wolfe
Nero Wolfe

Gourmet Nero Wolfe interrupts his orchid-tending to take on the case of a lady tycoon who wants to k...

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Bridesmaids
Bridesmaids

Four very different women, best friends during high school many years earlier, gather in the small t...

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Probable Cause
Probable Cause

A series of cop murders plagues the city. The remaining officers on the force are increasingly worri...

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Breakable You
Breakable You

A divorced playwright and his therapist ex deal with new relationships and their daughter....

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Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie
Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie

Monk steps out of retirement as his stepdaughter's wedding turns tragic when her fiancé dies in a bu...

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The Last Hit
The Last Hit

A retired asassin tries to make himself at home in New Mexico....

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James Dean
James Dean

A dramatization of the story of legendary movie actor James Dean. The film's writer, William Bast, h...

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Guns for Hire
Guns for Hire

Beatle is a quirky loner who refuses to live by society's rules. Her business cards read "Towing/Ass...

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Party Animals
Party Animals

Short film that follows a group of Hollywood nobodies. Think Curb Your Enthusiasm, without the enthu...

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The Stuff
The Stuff

Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a ...

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Vengeance Is Mine
Vengeance Is Mine

Unsuccessfully trying to close old family wounds on a trip back to the Rhode Island home of her mise...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles

A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and...

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Made-Up
Made-Up

A look at how our cultural obsession with youthful good looks affects women who are told their value...

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Snapshots
Snapshots

Rose spends her days fishing near the beautiful lake house she’s called home for 50 years. She’s not...

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Minestrone
Minestrone

A paranoid filmmaker is tortured by his taste for the titular Italian soup...

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Sole Survivor: Interview with Star Brooke Adams
Sole Survivor: Interview with Star Brooke Adams

An interview with Brooke Adams on her first role in the film, Shock waves....

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Special People
Special People

Brooke Adams is the real-life Diane Dupuy, the Canadian woman whose vision and drive molded a group ...

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Key Exchange
Key Exchange

A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exc...

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Lace 2
Lace 2

While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of ...

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Song of the Succubus
Song of the Succubus

The leader of a rock group is haunted by the ghost of a music star who took her own life at the turn...

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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby

Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the myste...

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The Politics of the Dead Zone
The Politics of the Dead Zone

A discussion on the politics behind the 1983 David Cronenberg thriller, The Dead Zone....

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Bolio: Spirit of the Mustang
Bolio: Spirit of the Mustang

Down-on-his-luck high school shop teacher Dale finds himself awkwardly entangled with aspiring life ...

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Picture Windows: Song of Songs
Picture Windows: Song of Songs

Part of the anthology series "Picture Windows," Peter Bogdanovich’s "Song of Songs" reimagines Botti...

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Still Life
Still Life

Unwilling to confront the death of her grandmother, Lennox skips the funeral and retreats to her gra...

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