Elisabeth Brooks

Birthday: 1951-07-02
Deathday: 1997-09-07
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Female
Owned By: Unowned

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Brooks was born Elisabeth Brooks Luyties in Toronto, Ontario and began her acting career aged five, encompassing both stage and screen. She started appearing in television roles in the mid-1970s and managed to pursue her acting career as a single mother while working a variety of jobs to support herself and her son. She had a brief role in Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), before appearing regularly on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, and in such popular television series as The Rockford Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Hart to Hart, Starsky and Hutch, The Six Million Dollar Man and Emergency!

Brooks is probably best remembered for her role as the evil leather-clad siren Marsha Quist in the horror film The Howling (1981). Her other film appearances included Deep Space (1988), and The Forgotten One (1989), starring Kristy McNichol.

After a three-year struggle with brain cancer, Brooks died in a hospital near her home in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 46

Credits

Year Title Character
Das 6 Millionen Dollar Girl
1989-09-27 The Forgotten One Carla
1989-01-01 Jaded Rita
1988-05-01 Deep Space Mrs. Ridley
1981-01-21 The Howling Marsha Quist
1979-10-09 The Solitary Man Joyce
1976-04-09 Family Plot Woman in Cafe with Priest (uncredited)