Born on Friday 14th November 1980, several weeks premature, no one knew Brooke would turn out to be such a beautiful woman. Leading a relatively normal life with two caring parents, it was not until one day in Brooke's first year at high school when a woman came into her mother's office selling kids books. She was from a casting agency and asked Brooke if she has ever done any modeling work before. Much to Brooke's amazement the lady handed her a business card and asked her to call the office. On doing this, Brooke's fame escalated. She first appeared as a foot on a Clarke shoe advert and then in various other adverts. Over a year passed and Brooke became very interested in forensic psychology, in fact she spent most of the summer of 1996 in a morgue but left to do the Neighbours auditions before the freezer doors were opened. Following Brooke's audition to be in Neighbours, she was told they would contact her with the result. From this day onwards Brooke was anxious to find out whether she had got the part. And finally she had got the part. When Brooke joined the cast, understandably the other members of the crew were great. Unfortunately after only a few weeks on set Brooke became ill will glandular fever. Although she still attended work when well enough, it was necessary for all the filming to be re-arranged, especially the kissing scenes with Jesse Spencer (Billy) which could have otherwise ended unfortunately for him too. In a silly way the illness helped Brooke as she now had more time to get to know Jesse before the first kissing scene - after all kissing a stranger may be daunting. Brooke's first appearance on Australian television was on the 19th November 1996. |
