Jacqueline Brookes
Jacqueline Victoire Brookes 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 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.
Aside from her work in Shakespearian plays, she also performed on Broadway in The Cherry Orchard, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Duchess of Malfi, and originated the role of Norma Henshaw in Jim Leonard's The Diviners in 1980.
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.
Brookes appeared in the films Ghost Story, The Entity, Paternity, The Good Son, and Losing Isaiah.
She died at age 82 from lymphoma.