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Brooke Adams is an American actress whose film work in the late 1970s and early 1980s placed her in several enduring classics. She starred in Days of Heaven (1978), the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), which brought her a Saturn Award nomination for Best Actress, and The Dead Zone (1983). After early parts in pictures such as Shock Waves, she appeared in Car Wash (1976), Cuba (1979) and Key Exchange (1985). Her role in Gas Food Lodging (1992) earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Female. Adams has kept a strong presence on stage, appearing in The Heidi Chronicles in 1990 and on Broadway in The Cherry Orchard in 2005 and Lend Me a Tenor in 2010. On television she guest starred five times on Monk, playing four separate characters, and turned up in Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie. Later screen work includes the comedy Made-Up (2002), written by her sister Lynne Adams, and The Accidental Husband (2008). In recent years she has performed in the play Madwomen of the West from 2023 to 2024 and the off-Broadway production Pen Pals in 2025.