- Born
- Height1.64 m
- A veteran of Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade, Brooke Langton has been working in the film industry for 30 years. A series regular on many television shows (Extreme, Melrose Place, The Net, Life, Glenn Gordon Caron's series Fling), a recurring character on the acclaimed Friday Night Lights, and most recently on TNT's The Last Ship, she starred opposite Gene Hackman in The Replacements, and played the infamous Nikki in Doug Liman's Swingers. Langton also produced and starred in the period piece Beautiful Dreamer.- IMDb mini biography by: Alex Hobbs / edited by Hans Delbruck
- ParentsJackson Langton
- RelativesSally Spalding(Aunt or Uncle)Steven Cummings(Grandparent)
- Began her career as a model, working primarily in Japan.
- Attended San Diego State University.
- Comes from a long line of prospectors and geologists. Her grandfather was chief prospector for H.L. Hunt, and her father, Jackson Langton, was chief geologist for Phelps Dodge. Her father published a memoir entitled, "All Trappers Don't Wear Fur Hats: The Prospector and His Protege".
- Brooke was born in an on-site hospital in an actual copper mine in Arizona. Her father was Chief Geologist for Phelps Dodge and, later, Vice President of Superior Oil. He has a published memoir called "A Prospectors Protege - All Trappers Do Not Wear Fur Hats".
- Her role as the wife of Kyle Chandler's character in Le Royaume (2007) wound up on the cutting room floor.
- Simple formula for the actor, prove you're creative enough to get the job, sane enough to keep the job, and hungry enough to give up everything else to keep them happy.
- On Keanu Reeves: They love Keanu and he was so generous with his responses. There was never even a hint that he found any of this intrusive.
- Honesty, integrity and perseverence!
- "Keep your eye on the doughnut and not the hole", my father always said. Now, as an adult, I understand. He was saying focus on what you love, your art...and not beyond it.
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