Known from movies

Melrose Place (1996-1998)
as Samantha Reilly

The Replacements (2000)
as Annabelle Farrell

Swingers (1996)
as Nikki

Primal (2007)
as Aviva Masters



Brooke Langton is an American television and film actress, who rose to prominence for her work in the hit TV series ‘Melrose Place’ and ‘The Net’.

Early life and family

Brooke Langton, of Swedish-American descent, was born on November 27, 1970, at a hospital on site in a copper mine in an Arizona town. Her father Jackson Langton, a chief geologist, and her mother, a surgical nurse, raised her in Illinois before moving to Texas, and she also briefly lived in Portland, Oregon. Her father was from one family of geologists and prospectors from mining companies. Her paternal grandfather was Chief Prospector for oil magnate HL Hunt, while her father became the Chief Geologist for Phelps Dodge, and later Vice President of Superior Oil in Indianapolis.

On her mother’s side, she had a World War II bomber pilot as a grandfather and a Swedish immigrant farmer as a grandmother who settled in Minnesota. She also has an aunt who was a screenwriter.

Education

Brooke’s family kept moving as she grew up, so she attended Herscher High School in Herscher, Illinois, but graduated from LD Bell High School in Tarrant County, Texas. She graduated in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in marine biology from San Diego State University.

Career

First step

After college, Brooke moved to Los Angeles to pursue her love of acting and make it her full-time profession.

She attended training programs at The Second City, an improvisational comedy company that offers training classes and from which successful actors and comedians such as Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Bill Murray and Stephen Colbert came from.

In 1993, she started playing small roles in various television shows such as the popular teen drama series ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ with Jason Priestly and Shannen Doherty, and the ‘Freshman Dorm’ with Paige French and Robyn Lively. She also appeared in several episodes of ‘Baywatch’, the most watched TV series about lifeguards in Los Angeles in the 1990s with David Hasselhoff.

Her film debut came with an unusual role of a drug addict in the movie ‘Terminal Velocity’, released in 1994, starring Charlie Sheen and Nastassja Kinski. It was followed by ‘Extreme’, an ABC drama series that got its most wanted time slot, which happened to be right after the Super Bowl coverage. She was included in the regular cast of the drama series with James Brolin, but unfortunately it was canceled after airing seven episodes and the remaining six episodes were not aired – the network struggled to get solid ratings.

For the next two years, she continued to guest star on several hit TV series, honing her talent and reaching mainstream television viewers.

She appeared in “Chicago Hope” with Mandy Pantinkin and Adam Arkin and “Party of Five” with Matthew Fox and Scott Wolfe both in 1995, and “Sliders” with John-Rhys Davies and Jerry O’Connell in 1996.

Further success

A year later, her biggest break came through the TV show ‘Melrose Place’. She joined the popular drama series as a recurring guest in Season 4, and was elevated to a cast regular the following season, playing the role of Samantha Reilly until the seventh episode of the final season. The show ran for seven seasons, but she only appeared in 68 of the 226 episodes.

After leaving Melrose Place, she was asked to star in the TV adaptation of Sandra Bullock’s blockbuster hit ‘The Net’. It ran for one season with 22 episodes, but was canceled due to low ratings.

Brooke also started accepting movie roles in between filming TV series. She starred in ‘Swingers’ in 1996 that catapulted the careers of Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn and Heather Graham to prominence; co-starred with Djimon Hounsou in “The Small Hours” in 1997; and took part in the comedy drama film “Reach the Rock” produced by John Hughes in 1998.

Her biggest movie role was in 2000 in ‘The Replacements’, in which she played one of the lead roles alongside Gene Hackman and Keanu Reeves. It was loosely based on a real-life National Football League (NFL) strike in 1987, when the Washington Redskins won three games without their regular football stars, then won Super Bowl XXII to end the football season.

Brooke accepted more film roles from independent filmmakers, including “Partners” in 2005 with Jay Harrington, “Beautiful Dreamer” with Colin Egglesfield, and “Primeval” with Dominic Purcell in 2007.

She went back to doing TV series and had a recurring role spent two years in “Friday Nights Lights,” the TV adaptation of the 2004 movie of the same name. It ran for five seasons before ending. A series of TV guest appearances followed, in long-running drama series ‘The Closer’, ‘Supernatural’ and ‘Bones’, playing the mother of the lead character, Temperance ‘Bones’ Brennan, played by Emily Deschanel. She also played a recurring role as Lieutenant Maddie Rawlings in the action drama series ‘The Last Ship’ airing on TNT in 2018.

In between filming TV series, Brooke took part in a reality TV game show in Sweden in 2015, “Allt för Sverige”, as one of the contestants in which they try to find out someone’s origin; she found out that she is related to Swedish movie actor, Adolf Jhar.

Her last TV appearance was in an episode of the TV thriller series ‘The Passage’ in 2019.

Private life

Brooke is currently single and it is not known that she was engaged. She is quite private and it shocked everyone when that was revealed to the public she has a son called Zaan. She took the little boy to the 2nd Annual Kidstock Music and Art Festival in 2008.

No one knows who the father is as there was no news of a pregnancy.

She was previously in a public relationship, and that was with David Chokachi from 1996 to 1998. There were several rumored boyfriends, including George Clooney, Tiger Woods, Andrew Shue, and Karl Hagmier, but no one could confirm them.

Appearance

Brooke is 1.67 m tall, weighs about 53 kg and her vital statistics are 34-24-35. She has a slim and well-muscled body. She is white with dark brown hair and hazel eyes. Her dress size is 4 and shoe size 9.

Net value

Authoritative sources estimates her net worth as of May 2020 to be around $2 million.

General information

First and last name	Brooke Langton
Date of birth	November 27, 1970
Height	1.64m
Profession	Actor, model
Education	San Diego State University
Nationality	American

Family

Performance

Movies	The Replacements, Primeval, Kiss the Bride, Playing Mona Lisa, Swingers, Beautiful Dreamer, Reach the Rock, Chilly Christmas, Oliver’s Deal, K-9 Adventures: Legend of the Lost Gold, The Benchwarmers, Eye of the Stalker, Terminal Velocity, Moment of Truth: the deception of a mother, partner(s), beach house…
TV shows	Life, Melrose Place, The Net, Extreme

Links to social profiles

Quotes

#	Quote
1	Honesty, integrity and perseverance!
2	About Keanu Reeves: They love Keanu and he was so generous with his answers. There was not even any indication that he found this intrusive.
3	“Watch the donut, not the hole,” my dad used to say. Now, as an adult, I understand. He said to focus on what you love, your art… and no further.
4	Simple formula for the actor, prove you are creative enough to get the job, healthy enough to keep the job and hungry enough to give up everything else to keep them happy.

Facts

#	Fact
1	Related to Swedish actor Adolf Jahr.
2	Comes from a long line of prospectors and geologists. Her grandfather was chief prospector for HL Hunt, and her father, Jackson Langton, was chief geologist for Phelps Dodge. Her father published a memoir titled “All Trappers Don’t Wear Fur Hats: The Prospector and His Protege”.
3	Brooke was born in a hospital on site in a real copper mine in Arizona. Her father was Chief Geologist for Phelps Dodge and later Vice President of Superior Oil. He has a published memoir of his called “A Prospectors Protege – All Trappers Do Not Wear Fur Hats”.
4	Her role as the wife of Kyle Chandler’s character in The Kingdom (2007) landed on the cutting room floor.
5	Good friends with Catherine Oxenberg.
6	Father, Jackson Langton, wrote the published novel “All Trappers Do Not Wear Fur Hats”
7	Went to San Diego State University.
8	Started her career as a model and worked mainly in Japan.

Pictures

Movies

Actress

Title	Year	Status	Character
Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden: Puddy McFadden License to Golf	2016	Shortly completed	Debra Garner – LPGA Champion
Antisocial.app	2016	completed	Emily
Switch		after-production	Carol Williamson
Satisfaction	2015	TV serials
are you my daughter?	2015	TV movie	Laura Paddington
Impact Earth	2015		Stella Harrison
Oliver’s deal	2015		Kate Campbell
K-9 Adventures: Legend of the Lost Gold	2014		Courtney Lewis
The Glades	2013	TV serials	Nicky Holloway
Supernatural	2013	TV serials	Hayley
Bones	2013	TV serials	Christine Brenn
Cold Christmas	2012	Video	Lieutenant Mel Stone
The mentalist	2012	TV serials	Pella Goodwin
The closer	2009	TV serials	Detective Ally Moore
Life	2007-2008	TV serials	Constance Griffiths
Friday night lights	2007-2008	TV serials	Jackie Miller
primeval	2007		Aviva Masters
Beautiful dreamer	2006		Claire
The Bench Warmers	2006		Kathy Dobson
Monk	2006	TV serials	Terri
Spouse(s)	2005		Lucy
Weeds	2005	TV serials	Sharon
The break	2003	TV movie	Sarah
Kiss the bride	2002		Nicoletta ‘Niki’ Sposato
To throw	2001	TV serials	Elizabeth Gillcrest
The substitutions	2000		Annabelle Farrell
Playing Mona Lisa	2000		Sabrina
The net	1998-1999	TV serials	Angela Bennett
Reach the Rock	1998		Lisa
Melrose place	1996-1998	TV serials	Samantha Reilly
The small hours	1997
Mixed signals	1997		Judy
Listen	1996		Sarah Ross
Swingers	1996		Nikki
Sliders	1996	TV serials	Dale Richards
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father	1996	TV movie	Rebecca Donelly (uncredited)
Beach house	1996		Caitlin
Party of Five	1995	TV serials	Courtney
Eye of the stalker	1995	TV movie	Bet
The single man	1995	TV serials	Amanda
Chicago hope	1995	TV serials	Sandra Keys
Extreme	1995	TV serials	Sarah Bowen
Moment of truth: cult rescue	1994	TV movie	Kim McGill
Terminal Velocity	1994		Spring Junkie #2
California dreams	1992	TV serials	Kimberly Blanchard
Baywatch	1992	TV serials	Tania
Beverly Hills, 90210	1992	TV serials	Sister Lipton
Freshman dormitory	1992	TV serials	Nikki

Producer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Beautiful dreamer	2006	co-producer

Yourself

Title	Year	Status	Character
Everything for Sweden	2015	TV serials	herself
I married a princess	2005	TV serials	herself
HBO first look	2000	Documentary about the TV series	herself
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	1998	TV serials	herself

Source: IMDb, Wikipedia