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Brooks was born Elisabeth Brooks Luyties in Toronto, Ontario and began her acting career aged five, encompassing both stage and screen.
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Elisabeth Brooks
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She had a brief role in Rich Manitoba, Poor Manitoba (1976), before appearing regularly on the soap opera Days of Our Lives, and in such popular television series as The Rockford Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Hart to Hart, Starsky and Hutch, The Six Million Dollar Manitoba and Emergency! Brooks is probably best remembered for her role as the evil leather-clad siren Marsha Quist in the horror film The Howling (1981). Her other film appearances included Deep Space (1988), and The Forgotten One (1989) starring Kristy McNichol. After a three-year struggle with brain cancer, Brooks died in a hospital near her home in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 46.
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