Jacqueline Brookes
{{short description|American actress, acting teacher}}
{{For|the equestrian|Jacqueline Brooks}}
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|name = Jacqueline Brookes
|image = File:Jacqueline Brookes in The Persians.jpg
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|birth_name = Jacqueline Victoire Brookes
|birth_date = {{birth date|1930|7|24|mf=yes}}
|birth_place = Montclair, New Jersey, U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|2013|04|26|1930|07|24|mf=y}}
|death_place = New York City, U.S.
|occupation = {{hlist|Actress|acting teacher}}
|years_active = 1952–1996}}
Jacqueline Victoire Brookes (July 24, 1930 – April 26, 2013){{Cite web|url=http://broadwayworld.com/article/Teacher-Actress-Jacqueline-Brookes-Passes-Away-at-82-20130502|title = Teacher, Actress Jacqueline Brookes Passes Away at 82}} was an American film, television, and stage actress, best known for her work both off-Broadway and on Broadway.
Life and career
Brookes was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the daughter of Maria Victoire (née Zur Haar) and Frederick Jack Brookes, an investment banker. She attended a French-speaking school in New York and spoke fluent French. She attended the University of Iowa, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Then she went to London on a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
During the 1960s, she spent several summers acting in the Shakespeare Festival at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, performing in plays such as Antony and Cleopatra, A Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Richard III. During that era, she also performed Rosalind in As You Like It at the New Mexico State University, Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew at the University of British Columbia, and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut.
Jacqueline Brookes in later years was a teacher at the Circle in the Square Theatre School as well as a life member of The Actors Studio.{{cite book|first=David|last=Garfield|title=A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio|url=https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf|url-access=registration|year=1980|publisher=Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.|location=New York|isbn=0-02-542650-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/playersplacestor00garf/page/277 277]|chapter=Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980}}[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/NYTimes/obituary.aspx?n=JACQUELINE-BROOKES&pid=164650377#fbLoggedOut JACQUELINE BROOKES' obit, New York Times (paid death notice)]
Brookes appeared in the films Ghost Story, The Entity, Paternity, The Good Son, and Losing Isaiah.
She died at age 82 from lymphoma.
Awards
She received her Theatre World Award in 1955 for The Cretan Woman and won an Obie Award for Best Actress in 1963 for Six Characters in Search of an Author.Martin, Douglas. [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/theater/jacqueline-brookes-actress-dies-at-82.html 'Jacqueline Brookes, Actress and Teacher, Dies at 82"], The New York Times, May 12, 2013. Accessed February 20, 2024. "Jacqueline Victoire Brookes was born on July 24, 1930, in Montclair, N.J., the daughter of the former Maria Zur Haar and Frederick Jack Brookes, an investment banker."
Filmography
=Film=
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| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | The Hospital | Dr. Immelman (uncredited) | |
| 1972 | Parades | Mrs. Novik (uncredited) | |
| 1973 | The Werewolf of Washington | Angela - Publisher | |
| 1974 | The Gambler | Naomi Freed | |
| 1977 | Looking Up | Becky | |
| 1979 | Last Embrace | Dr. Coopersmith | |
| 1981 | Paternity | Aunt Ethel | |
| 1981 | Ghost Story | Milly | |
| 1982 | Love and Money | Mrs. Paultz | |
| 1982 | The Entity | Dr. Cooley | |
| 1983 | Without a Trace | Margaret Mayo | |
| 1989 | Sea of Love | Helen's Mother | |
| 1991 | The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear | Commissioner Brumford | |
| 1992 | Whispers in the Dark | Lorraine McDowell | |
| 1993 | The Good Son | Alice Davenport | |
| 1995 | Losing Isaiah | Judge Silbowitz | (final film role) |
=Television=
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| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1964–1965
| Flora Perkins | 3 episodes |
| 1969–1973
| Miss Thompson | |
| 1972
| Ursula Winthrop | 1 episode |
| 1975–1976
| Beatrice Gordon | 12 episodes |
| 1978
| Mildred Carston | TV movie |
| 1982
| Sister Mary Joel | 4 episodes |
| 1984
| Judge Miriam Roth | TV movie |
| 1986
| Nora Adler | 3 episodes |
| 1986
| Phyllis Robertson | Episode: "Christmas Presence" |
| 1987
| Mrs. Connaloe | 1 episode |
| 1989
| The Equalizer | Dr. Grayson | Episode: "Lullaby of Darkness" |
| 1990
| Judge Grace Larkin | Episode: "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die" |
| 1991
| Judge Irene Singer | 10 episodes |
| 1992
| Star Trek: The Next Generation | Admiral Andrea Brand | Episode: "The First Duty" |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0111795}}
- {{IBDB name|74056}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20151208002711/http://www.lortel.org/lla_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Jacqueline&middle=&last=Brookes Jacqueline Brookes profile at the Internet Off-Broadway Database]
- [http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/theater/jacqueline-brookes-actress-dies-at-82.html Obituary] in The New York Times
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American stage actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:Actresses from Montclair, New Jersey
Category:University of Iowa alumni
Category:Deaths from lymphoma in New York (state)