Brooke Adams

New York City in "Lend Me a Tenor" with husband Tony Shalhoub at Music Box Theatre through August 2010 [May 2010]

She produced and starred in Made-Up (2002), written by her sister Lynne Adams. Her stage credits include The Heidi Chronicles on Broadway, Key Exchange at the Orpheum, Split at The Second Stage, The Old Neighborhood at A. R. T. If Memory Serves at the Pasadena Playhouse, The Philanderer at Yale Rep, The Cherry Orchard at The Atlantic Theatre Co. and Lend Me a tenor on Broadway with her husband Tony Shalhoub directed by Stanley Tucci. She has most recently starred in Samuel Becket's Happy Days with her husband Tony Shalhoub.

Other film credits include Gas Food Lodging (1992), DEAD ZONE (1983) opposite Christopher Walken, Cuba (1979) with Sean Connery, and Tell Me a Riddle (1980).

Met husband Tony Shalhoub in 1988 when the two performed together on Broadway in "The Heidi Chronicles". They wed in 1992. The couple has two adopted daughters: Josie Lynn (born 1988), who was adopted by Adams before her marriage and whom Shalhoub later adopted), and Sophie (born 1993), adopted by the couple after they married.

Starting her career on the stage, her film career took off with a break through role opposite Richard Gere and Sam Shepard in Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978).

She also starred in Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), and repeated her off-Broadway role in the film version of Kevin Wade's romantic comedy Key Exchange (1985).

Reportedly turned down offer to be one of the original Charlie's Angels (1976).

Her first feature film role was in 1967 starring in a New York City-based musical film named All the Other Outs in Free, directed by Ray Russell, which was never released.

Brooke Adams was born on February 8, 1949 in New York City, to Rosalind (Gould), an actress, and Robert K. Adams, a former CBS vice president. She is of English and German descent, and is said to be related to President John Adams. She was educated at the prestigious High School for the Performing Arts and the School of the American Ballet.