Trivia

Had one son: Jeremy Brooks (born 1973); she was unmarried.

She wrote and directed two stage plays: "Orphan Dreams" (1993) and "Orphan Dreams Too" (1995).

She appeared in publicity photos and movie stills to have mild hypertropic strabismus (a condition in which one eyeball has a tendency to look upwards more than the other). It is unknown whether or not this had any connection to her deadly brain cancer.

She was to have reprised her role as Marsha Quist in Horror (1985) as she agreed to the sequel, but later backed out. She was suffering from pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) at that time. Consequently, Marsha Quist was replaced with the character Marianna, played by actress/singer Marsha Hunt.

Best remembered by the public for her role as the evil leather-clad siren Marsha Quist in Joe Dante's classic Hurlements (1981), which brought her considerable notoriety within the horror genre.

After her three-year struggle with brain cancer, she passed away at Haven Hospice near her home in Palm Springs, California. Following her sudden death, Brooks was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral City, California.

Although she appeared nude in one key scene in Hurlements (1981), Brooks was always very vocal in her objection to scenes that required full-frontal nudity. She said she had no issue being totally nude before the crew while filming that scene, but she had no idea they would show as much of her nudity as they had done in the movie. With no heat waves or smoke, the scene showed her disrobing near the embers of a very small blaze and clearly revealing her breasts and pubic hair. She was shocked and angry. This ended up being her only nude scene in a movie during her career.

Longtime friends with actress/singer Kristy McNichol.