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Brooke Adams was born on February 8, 1949 in New York City, to Rosalind (Gould), an actress, and Robert Kaufmann Adams, a former CBS vice president, as well as actor and producer. She was educated at the prestigious High School for the Performing Arts and the School of the American Ballet.

Starting her career on the stage, her film career took off with a break through role opposite Richard Gere and Sam Shepard in Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978). She also starred in Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), and repeated her off-Broadway role in the film version of Kevin Wade's romantic comedy Key Exchange (1985). Other film credits include Gas Food Lodging (1992), The Dead Zone (1983) opposite Christopher Walken, Cuba (1979) with Sean Connery, and Tell Me a Riddle (1980). She produced and starred in Made-Up (2002), written by her sister Lynne Adams.

Her stage credits include The Heidi Chronicles on Broadway, Key Exchange at the Orpheum, Split at The Second Stage, The Old Neighborhood at A.R.T. If Memory Serves at the Pasadena Playhouse, The Philanderer at Yale Rep, The Cherry Orchard at The Atlantic Theatre Co. and Lend Me a tenor on Broadway with her husband Tony Shalhoub directed by Stanley Tucci. She has most recently starred in Samuel Becket's Happy Days with her husband Tony Shalhoub.

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 is writing, producing, directing, and starring in a web-series, All Downhill from Here (2015).

Brooke Adams at an event for Bringing Down the House (2003)

Stage: Appeared in &quot;Key Exchange&quot;, off-Broadway.

(1988) Stage: Appeared in &quot;The Heidi Chronicles&quot; on Broadway. Also in cast: <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0001724/?ref_=nmwrk">Tony Shalhoub</a>.

(6/05) Stage: Appeared (as &quot;Lyubov Ranevskaya&quot;) in &quot;The Cherry Orchard&quot; by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0155009/?ref_=nmwrk">Anton Chekhov</a>, adapted by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0231909/?ref_=nmwrk">Tom Donaghy</a>. Atlantic Theater Company, New York City.

(July 9 to September 27, 1992) She acted in Neil Simon&#39;s play, &quot;Lost in Yonkers,&quot; in presented by the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson at the James A. Doolittle (University of California) Theatre in Los Angeles, California with Mercedes McCambridge, Alex Dezen, and Ned Eisenberg in the cast. Fred M. Duer was scenic designer. Gene Saks was director.

(April 11, 1997) She acted in David Mamet&#39;s play, &quot;The Old Neighborhood,&quot; in a world premiere and American Repertory Theatre production at the Hasty Pudding Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Jack Willis in the cast. Scott Zigler was director. Kevin Rigdon was set designer. Harriet Voyt was costume designer. John Ambrosone was lighting designer. Robert Brustein was artistic director.

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