---
name: "Jacqueline Brookes"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jacqueline-brookes"
fi1m_id: "jacqueline-brookes"
imdb_id: "nm0111795"
tmdb_id: 119113
wikidata_id: "Q1260025"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "24 July 1930"
died: "26 April 2013"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T21:38:41.304549+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."
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# Jacqueline Brookes

## Identity

Jacqueline Brookes

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jacqueline-brookes
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jacqueline-brookes
- **IMDb ID:** nm0111795
- **TMDB ID:** 119113
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1260025
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Brookes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1260025, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111795/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119113

Actor. Born 24 July 1930 in Montclair, New Jersey, USA. Died 26 April 2013.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 24 July 1930, Montclair, New Jersey, USA
- **Died:** 26 April 2013
- **Active:** 1989–1991
- **Also known as:** Jacqueline Victoire Brookes
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 75 (1), 1990s 72 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Brookes, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1260025, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0111795/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/119113

## Streaming the US now

- **Hulu:** [*The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear*](https://film.one/film/the-naked-gun-212-the-smell-of-fear.md) (72)

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## Biography

Jacqueline Victoire Brookes was an American actress who worked in film, television and stage. She was born on 24 July 1930 in Montclair, New Jersey, and died on 26 April 2013 in Manhattan, New York.

She graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London on a Fulbright Scholarship. Brookes was best known for her stage work, including roles in Shakespeare productions and an Obie Award-winning performance in Six Characters in Search of an Author (1963). She originated the role of Norma Henshaw in The Diviners on Broadway in 1980 and taught acting at the Circle in the Square Theatre School from 1974 until her death.

Her film and television credits include Commissioner Brumford in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991), Admiral Brand in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1992), Alice Davenport in The Good Son (1993), and roles in Sea of Love (1989), The Entity (1982) and Law & Order (1990).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear* (1991), Fi1m 72, as Commissioner Brumford — [page](https://film.one/film/the-naked-gun-212-the-smell-of-fear.md)
- *Sea of Love* (1989), Fi1m 75, as Helen's Mother — [page](https://film.one/film/sea-of-love.md)

## Complete filmography (38)

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

- *Losing Isaiah* (1995), as Judge Silbowitz
- *The Good Son* (1993), as Alice Davenport
- *Whispers in the Dark* (1992), as Lorraine McDowell
- *The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear* (1991), as Commissioner Brumford — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-naked-gun-212-the-smell-of-fear.md)
- *Law & Order* (1990), series, as Trial Judge Grace Larkin — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/law-and-order.md)
- *Sea of Love* (1989), as Helen's Mother — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/sea-of-love.md)
- *Unholy Matrimony* (1988), as Doris
- *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987), series, as Admiral Brand — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-the-next-generation.md)
- *Stacking* (1987), as Mrs. Connaloe
- *License to Kill* (1986), as Judge Miriam Roth
- *Jack and Mike* (1986), series, as Nora Adler
- *Silent Witness* (1985), as Ma Dunne
- *The Equalizer* (1985), series, as Phyllis Robertson, Dr. Grayson
- *Starcrossed* (1985), as Dr. Hobbes
- *Miami Vice* (1984), series, as Judge Cohen — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/miami-vice.md)
- *Without a Trace* (1983), as Margaret Mayo
- *An Invasion of Privacy* (1983), Actor
- *Medea* (1983), as 1st Woman of Corinth
- *The Entity* (1982), as Dr. Cooley
- *American Playhouse* (1982), series, as Mrs. Connaloe
- *Ghost Story* (1981), as Milly
- *Paternity* (1981), as Aunt Ethel
- *Love & Money* (1981), as Mrs. Paultz
- *Nurse* (1981), series, as Dr. Patman
- *Word of Honor* (1981), as Spinner
- *Act of Love* (1980), as Eugenia Cybulkowski
- *Rodeo Girl* (1980), as Charlene
- *Hardhat & Legs* (1980), as Stella Botsford
- *Last Embrace* (1979), as Dr. Coopersmith
- *Lou Grant* (1977), series, Actor
- *One of Our Own* (1975), as Frances Hollander
- *The Gambler* (1974), as Naomi
- *The Werewolf of Washington* (1973), as Angela - Publisher
- *Parades* (1972), as Mrs. Novik (uncredited)
- *The Hospital* (1971), as Dr. Immelman (uncredited)
- *Great Performances* (1971), series, as Verena
- *Another World* (1964), series, Actor
- *Medea* (1959), as Second Woman of Corinth

## Gallery

- ![Jacqueline Brookes](https://film.one/media/person/5555239/gallery-3e248b2c5411.jpg) Jacqueline Brookes — Lee & Patrick Owens, photographers, New York, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Jacqueline_Brookes_in_The_Persians.jpg/1280px-Jacqueline_Brookes_in_The_Persians.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jacqueline Brookes](https://film.one/media/person/5555239/gallery-0a5237862d14.jpg) Jacqueline Brookes — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Theatre World Award 1955: Theatre World Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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