Biography
J. Nicole Brooks, also credited as DeAnna N.J. Brooks, is an American actor, playwright and director. She trained at Northern Illinois University, studying the Meisner Technique, and is an ensemble member of the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago since 2007, where she has also served as Creative Producer and Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence.
Her screen credits include the role of Clerk in The Weather Man (2005), Buel Cannon in Fargo (2014), DC Gloria Hill in Chicago Fire (2012–), Sgt. Clemmons in The Chi (2018–) and Dr. Collins in Candyman (2021). As a playwright her works include Black Diamond: The Years the Locusts Have Eaten and the award-winning Her Honor Jane Byrne.
