Jacqueline Victoire Brookes (July 24, 1930 â€" April 26, 2013) was an
American film, television, and stage actress, best known for her work
both off-Broadway and on Broadway.Brookes was born in Montclair, New
Jersey, the daughter of Maria Victoire (née Zur Haar) and Frederick
Jack Brookes, an investment banker. She attended a French-speaking
school in New York and spoke fluent French. She chose to attend the
University of Iowa, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Then she
went to London on a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Arts.During the 1960s, she spent several summers
acting in the Shakespeare Festival at the Old Globe Theater in San
Diego, performing in plays such as Antony and Cleopatra, A Winter's
Tale, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry
Wives of Windsor, and Richard III. During that era, she also performed
Rosalind in As You Like It at the New Mexico State University,
Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew at the University of British
Columbia, and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Shakespeare
Festival in Stratford, Connecticut.Jacqueline Brookes in later years
was a teacher at the Circle in the Square Theatre School as well as a
life member of The Actors Studio.
American film, television, and stage actress, best known for her work
both off-Broadway and on Broadway.Brookes was born in Montclair, New
Jersey, the daughter of Maria Victoire (née Zur Haar) and Frederick
Jack Brookes, an investment banker. She attended a French-speaking
school in New York and spoke fluent French. She chose to attend the
University of Iowa, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Then she
went to London on a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Arts.During the 1960s, she spent several summers
acting in the Shakespeare Festival at the Old Globe Theater in San
Diego, performing in plays such as Antony and Cleopatra, A Winter's
Tale, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merry
Wives of Windsor, and Richard III. During that era, she also performed
Rosalind in As You Like It at the New Mexico State University,
Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew at the University of British
Columbia, and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at the Shakespeare
Festival in Stratford, Connecticut.Jacqueline Brookes in later years
was a teacher at the Circle in the Square Theatre School as well as a
life member of The Actors Studio.
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