- Had an extensive theatrical background both on and off-Broadway.
- Best known on TV for her various supporting roles on daytime soaps.
- Her extensive repertoire of Shakespearean roles in a five-decade stage career include Katherine in "Taming of the Shrew", Desdemona and Emilia in "Othello", Portia in "The Merchant of Venice", Gertrude in "Hamlet", Lady Macbeth in "Macbeth, Rosalind in "As You Like It", Viola in "Twelfth Night", Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mistree Page in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and Elizabeth in "Richard III".
- Received her training in the 1950s by Britain's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
- The daughter of Maria Victoire (née Zur Haar) and Frederick Jack Brookes, an investment banker.
- Taught acting at Circle in the Square Theater School in Manhattan from 1974 until her death in 2013.
- Graduated from the University of Iowa, then studied on a Fulbright Scholarship at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts for two years.
- Acted with Richard Dysart on Broadway in the early 1960s, and then acted again with him on L.A. Law (1986) some 30 years later.
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