Background
Brock was born in Western Australia and grew up in Perth.
Brock was born in Western Australia and grew up in Perth.
She studied English at Curtin University and graduated with a Bachelor, then studied acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
In 1990, while working as an actor she appeared in an episode of the soap opera Home and Away. She moved to Scotland in 1996 to live with her partner, having met him when she visited the country on holiday a year earlier. Brock worked for Rob Gibson Managing Successful Programmes before being elected as a Scottish National Party Councillor on the City of Edinburgh Council for the Leith Walk ward in 2007 where she topped the poll with 2,550 first preferences.
She was re-elected in the 2012 elections, again topping the poll with 1,735 first preferences, and subsequently became the Deputy Lord Provost for Council as the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Labour Party formed an arrangement to run the Council.
She was elected as Member of Parliament for Edinburgh North and Leith in 2015 as part of the Scottish National Party landslide receiving 23,742 votes (a 409% share), defeating the Labour Party Member of Parliament, Mark Lazarowicz, by 5,597 votes.
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She has been the Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Edinburgh North and Leith since May 2015 — the first Scottish National Party representative, and the first woman, to hold the seat at either a Westminster or Scottish Parliament level