Gained 25 pounds for her role as "roomy" Catharine Martin in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Brooke Smith Detailed Biography
An accomplished stage actress, Brooke Smith has acted in many feature films, including Daniel Minahan's Series 7, Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs, Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street (for which she received an IFP Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress), Robert Altman's Kansas City, Henry Jaglom's Last Summer in the Hamptons, Warren Leight's The Night We Never Met, Anthony Minghella's Mr. Wonderful, Alan Rudolph's The Moderns and Sydney Pollack's Random Hearts.
A 1996 Sundance Filmmakers Lab participant, Smith wrote, produced and directed the award-winning short film Sheeps Meadow, which has aired on the Sundance Channel. She recently produced, directed and shot Honky: Portrait of a Bluesman, a documentary about Chicago bluesman Jake La Botz, and is currently finishing a documentary on Zimbabwe's Painted Hunting Dogs.
For television, she has appeared on such series as Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Sidney Lumet's 100 Centre Street, Big Apple, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Larry Sanders Show, Law and Order, Showtime's The Hunger and TNT's A Century of Women.
Her stage work includes Stop Kiss at The Public Theater and Andre Gregory's production of Uncle Vanya at the Victory Theater the basis for Louis Malle's subsequent screen adaptation.
