Amanda Brooks

{{Short description|American actress}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|06|22}}

| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

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| years_active = 2002–present

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Amanda Brooks (born June 22, 1981) is an American actress who starred in the 2007 film D-War and in the 2006 film Cut Off.{{cite web|title=Exclusive: Amanda Brooks Of SyFy's 'Hellhounds'|url=http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2009/07/17/exclusive_amanda_brooks_of_syfy_s_hellho|work=StarPulse|accessdate=November 30, 2013}} She also had a leading role in the 2005 film River's End. She also starred in The Canyons as Gina.

She is the daughter of disgraced "You Light Up My Life" songwriter Joseph Brooks, from whom she was estranged.{{cite news |title=Trust fund stoner Nicholas Brooks guilty of murdering girlfriend |first1=Shayna |last1=Jacobs |first2=Daniel |last2=Beekman|newspaper=New York Daily News |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/trust-fund-stoner-nicholas-brooks-guilty-murdering-girlfriend-article-1.1396514 |date=July 11, 2013 |accessdate=July 11, 2013}}{{Cite web|last=Verini|first=James|date=February 4, 2011|title=The Curious Case of Joseph and Nicholas Brooks and the Murder of Sylvie Cachay -- New York Magazine - Nymag|url=https://nymag.com/news/features/71271/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-07-30|website=New York Magazine|language=en-us|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110208132217/http://nymag.com:80/news/features/71271/ |archive-date=2011-02-08 }} In 2013, comments she made in support of her currently incarcerated brother Nicholas made the news.{{Cite web|last=Jacobs|first=Shayna|title=Accused killer Nicholas Brooks' vicious sister returns to court after calling witness 'awful b----'|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/accused-killer-nicholas-brooks-vicious-sister-returns-court-calling-witness-awful-b-article-1.1375851|access-date=2021-07-30|website=nydailynews.com|date=18 June 2013 }}