{"id":18931,"date":"2026-03-25T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/?page_id=18931"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:48:42","slug":"brooke-adams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/client\/actors\/brooke-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"241\" height=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Brooke-Adams-HS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18932\" style=\"width:351px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in New York City, Brooke began acting at age 6 at her father\u2019s summer theatre. At 16 she landed a TV series with Burl Ives, O.K.CRACKERBY!. In 2022, The Harvard Film Archive curated a retrospective of her films. She has starred in movies such as: Terrence Malick\u2019s DAYS OF HEAVEN, Phillip Kauffman\u2019s INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, Richard Lester\u2019s CUBA, David Cronenberg\u2019s THE DEAD ZONE, Allison Ander\u2019s GAS FOOD AND LODGING, Barnet Kelman\u2019s KEY EXCHANGE Lee Grants\u2019 TELL ME A RIDDLE, Michael Roemer\u2019s VENGEANCE IS MINE and Tony Shalhoub\u2019s MADE-UP. Her theatre credits include KEY EXCHANGE, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, THE PHILANDERER with Christopher Walken and Samuel Becket\u2019s HAPPY DAYS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>She met her husband, Tony Shalhoub while performing in Wendy Wassertein\u2019s, THE HEIDI CHRONICLES on Broadway. Brooke returned to Broadway with her husband in Stanley Tucci\u2019s production of LEND ME A TENOR. Most recently, she appeared in the off-broadway produc8on of MAD WOMEN OF THE WEST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>On television, she has been featured on numerous episodes of MONK. Before riding on Tony\u2019s coattails Brooke appeared in, THRITY SOMETHING, MOONLIGHTING, FAMILY, THE LION OF AFRICA, SPECIAL PEOPLE with Liberace. She also starred in the miniseries LACE and LACE II. She has performed in BRAIN DEAD WITH her husband and most recently can be seen in MR. MONKS LAST CASE: A MONK MOVIE. Outside of her acting work, Brooke is a painter, and she has two daughters with her husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in New York City, Brooke began acting at age 6 at her father\u2019s summer theatre. At 16 she landed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":55,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18931","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18935,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18931\/revisions\/18935"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretadamsltd.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}