Brooke Smith
Brooke Smith was born in New York City, New York, United States on May 22nd, 1967 and is the TV Actress. At the age of 56, Brooke Smith biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Brooke Smith (born May 22, 1967) is an American actress best known for her role as Dr.
Erica Hahn talks about ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy and her appearance as Catherine Martin in 1991 horror film The Silence of the Lambs.
On the A&E horror movie Bates Motel, Smith played Sheriff Jane Greene.
Early life
Smith was born in New York City. Eugene "Gene" Smith Smith, her father, and her mother, Lois Smith (née Wollenweber), had worked with Robert Redford and other actors and directors.
Personal life
On January 6, 1999, Smith married Russian cinematographer Steve Lubensky. Fanny Grace Lubensky, their daughter, was born in New York City. Lucy Dinknesh Lubensky, a baby girl from Ethiopia, was adopted by the couple in May 2008. The family lives on the Upper West Side of New York and in Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles. She was once roommates with singer Jeff Buckley.
Smith spoke at a "Open the Debates" rally in Denver, Colorado, condemning the Commission on Presidential Debates' ban of third party candidates from the nationally broadcast presidential debates and in favor of Independent Presidential candidate Ralph Nader.
Career
Smith has appeared in numerous films, including The Moderns (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Night We Never Met (1993), Mr. Wonderful (1993), Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995), Trees Lounge (1996), Kansas City (1996), The Broken Giant (1997), Random Hearts (1999), Series 7: The Contenders (2001), Bad Company (2002), Melinda and Melinda (2004), Iron Jawed Angels (2004), Shooting Vegetarians (2005), In Her Shoes (2005), The Namesake (2006), and Interstellar (2014).
She appeared as a guest star on the sixth season of Crossing Jordan as Dr. Kate Switzer, as one of Claire Fisher's art teachers on Six Feet Under, and on Weeds as the ex-wife of Peter Scottson, the late husband of main character Nancy Botwin.
Smith originated the role of Andrea in the pilot of the ABC drama series Dirty Sexy Money, but was replaced by Sheryl Lee after becoming a series regular on Grey's Anatomy. On November 3, 2008, Smith told Entertainment Weekly that her character was being written out of Grey's Anatomy, stating that she was "really, really shocked," and suggested that network executives' discomfort with her character's lesbian relationship might be the reason for her ousting. However, Shonda Rhimes, the show's creator, said that Smith was dismissed from the series because the writers did not find that the "magic and chemistry" that Smith's character had with Sara Ramirez's character, Callie Torres, would sustain in the long run.
Smith has also had roles on Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order, Criminal Minds and The Hunger. In 2012, Smith also appeared in the American Horror Story: Asylum episode "The Coat Hanger". In 2015, she appeared as Frances Simpson on the Showtime drama series Ray Donovan.
In 2016, Smith appeared in the recurring role of Sheriff Jane Greene in the fifth and final season of A&E's Bates Motel, a prequel series to director Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 horror classic Psycho.
In 2019, Smith portrayed Dara, a counselor assigned to a young rape victim, in Episode 7 of Unbelievable. It was released on September 13 on Netflix.
In 2020, she began a recurring role on the ABC series Big Sky.