Jessica Brooks
{{Short description|English actress (born 1981)}}
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{{Use British English|date=June 2015}}
{{BLP sources|date=July 2012}}
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| birthname = Jessica Kate Brooks
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|5|28|df=y}}
| birth_place =Ealing, London, England
| yearsactive= 2001–present
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| occupation = Actress
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Jessica Kate Brooks (born 28 May 1981) is an English actress. In musical theatre, she is a soprano. She has appeared in various BBC television productions, including Murder Rooms: The Kingdom of Bones, and featured in episodes of Footballer's Wives.
Brooks is known for her role as Ghanima Atreides in the 2003 Sci-Fi Channel mini-series, Children of Dune. She is also a trained voice-over artist, and has studied classics at Oxford University. In 2003, she co-starred in her first feature film, Collusion.
Brooks has appeared in an episode of the long-running British TV show, Casualty (series 21, episode 11 "All Through The Night") as police officer, Nikki Soames. She has also appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders titled "Four Funerals and a Wedding".
In 2008, she played the role of Lisa Houseman in the stage version of Dirty Dancing.{{Cite web |url=http://www.dirtydancinglondon.com/about/cast/jessica_brooks.php |title=Dirty Dancing, The Classic Story on Stage {{!}} Cast {{!}} Jessica Brooks |access-date=20 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303205535/http://www.dirtydancinglondon.com/about/cast/jessica_brooks.php |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}
Filmography
=Film & television =
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! Year ! Title ! Role ! Type |
2001
|Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes | Elizabeth Proctor | TV series |
2003
| Lucy Lyle | TV series |
2003
| Lina Lardi | Feature film |
2003
| Federica Hauser | TV series, episodes: "Fall from Grace", "Facing the Truth", and "A Change of Career?" |
2003
| Ghanima Atreides | TV miniseries |
2003
|Collusion | Serena Ames | |
2003
|Blue Dove | Zoe | |
2004
| Callie | Film |
2005
| Brooke Richardson | TV series |
2005
| Jemma | Feature film |
2006
| Nickie Soames | TV series, episode: "All Through the Night" |
2006
| Fiona Aynscombe | TV series, episode: "Four Funerals and a Wedding" |
2007
|{{sortname|The|Bill}} | DI Liz Brown | TV series, episode: "Death or Glory" |
2008
|Swan Song | Beth | |
2009
| Zoe | TV series, episode #4.1 |
References
External links
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Category:Actors from the London Borough of Ealing
Category:English television actresses
Category:Actresses from London
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