Anne Rose Brooks (born July 15, 1963, in
Plainview, New York
Plainview is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located in the town of Oyster Bay (town), New York, Oyster Bay in east central Nassau County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP was 27,100. The Plainv ...
) is an American
soap opera
A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originat ...
actress
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...
.
Career
Brooks most predominant roles were on soaps in the early 1980s, specifically Diana Frame on ''
Another World'' (1981 to 1982) and Stephanie Aldrich on ''
The Doctors'' (1982). Her first job, a print ad, was for a never released cereal product, ''Morning Power''.
On ''Another World'', Brooks was required to play the role of Diana Frame with an
Australian accent
Australian English (AuE) accents are the non-rhotic pronunciations of English used by most native-born Australians. Phonologically, Australian English is a relatively regionally homogeneous variety of the English language. Australian English i ...
, but in reality, Brooks was born and raised in the United States.
Personal life
Brooks's parents were poet and lawyer Eugene Brooks (1921-2001; born Eugene Ginsberg), the older brother of poet
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of th ...
, and his wife Constance. She had four brothers.
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American soap opera actresses
1963 births
Living people
People from Plainview, New York
21st-century American women
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