---
name: "Brooke Ellison"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/brooke-ellison"
fi1m_id: "brooke-ellison"
imdb_id: "nm1757233"
tmdb_id: 1725936
wikidata_id: "Q2250243"
roles: []
born: "20 October 1978"
died: "4 February 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T03:39:22.681675+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Brooke Ellison

## Identity

Brooke Ellison

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/brooke-ellison
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** brooke-ellison
- **IMDb ID:** nm1757233
- **TMDB ID:** 1725936
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2250243
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Ellison, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2250243, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1757233/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1725936

Writer. Born 20 October 1978 in Long Island. Died 4 February 2024.

## Details

- **Born:** 20 October 1978, Long Island
- **Died:** 4 February 2024
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Ellison, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2250243, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1757233/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1725936

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story*](https://film.one/film/super-man-the-christopher-reeve-story.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Brooke Ellison was an American writer, academic and disability rights advocate. Born in Rockville Centre, New York, on 20 October 1978, she became quadriplegic after a car accident at the age of eleven. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2000 with a degree in cognitive neuroscience and later earned a master's degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a PhD in sociology from Stony Brook University.

Ellison co-wrote the memoir *Miracles Happen: One Mother, One Daughter, One Journey* (2002) with her mother, Jean. It was adapted into the 2004 television film *The Brooke Ellison Story*, directed by Christopher Reeve. She published a second memoir, *Look Both Ways*, in 2021. Ellison appeared in the 2024 documentary *Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story*. She served as an associate professor at Stony Brook University and held roles in disability advocacy organisations. She died on 4 February 2024 in Stony Brook, New York.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story* (2024), Fi1m 80, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/super-man-the-christopher-reeve-story.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Brooke Ellison Story* (2004), Book

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/brooke-ellison