| Brooke Smith has acted in feature films including Mira
Nair's "The Namesake," Woody Allen's "Melinda and Melinda"
and Curtis Hanson's "In Her Shoes." Other films include "Series
7," "The Silence of the Lambs," "Vanya on 42nd Street"
(for which she received an IFP Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress),
"Iron Jawed Angels" (for HBO), "Bad Company," Robert Altman's
"Kansas City," Henry Jaglom's "Last Summer in the Hamptons,"
Warren Leight's "The Night We Never Met," Anthony Minghella's "Mr.Wonderful,"
Alan Rudolph's "The Moderns" and Sydney Pollack's "Random Hearts."
On television Smith appears in a four-episode arc on the Showtime series
"Weeds." She also appeared on the final season of NBC's "Crossing
Jordan" and in such other series as "Six Feet Under," "Heist,"
"Law & Order: Criminal Intent," Sidney Lumet's "100 Centre
Street," David Milch's "Big Apple," "Homicide: Life on the
Street," "The Larry Sanders Show," "Law & Order,"
Showtime's "The Hunger" and TNT's "A Century of Women." Smith
co-starred in the Coen Brothers' radio play "Theater of the New Ear"
in NYC and London. Her stage work includes "Some Girls" by Neil
LaBute (at MCC), "Stop Kiss" at The Public Theater and Andre Gregory's
production of "Uncle Vanya" at The Victory Theater (the basis for Louis
Malle's subsequent screen adaptation), among other production. -
description by ABC.com |
