{{short description|Canadian actress (1951–1997)}} {{distinguish|Elizabeth Brooke (disambiguation){{!}}Elizabeth Brooke}} {{Use Canadian English|date=July 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Elisabeth Brooks | image = | caption = | birth_name = Elisabeth Brooks Luyties | birth_date = {{Birth date|1951|7|2}} | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|1997|9|7|1951|7|2}} | death_place = Palm Springs, California, U.S.<ref name="Lentz" /> | resting_place = Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale | occupation = Actress, singer, poet, writer | years_active = 1974–1991 | children = 1 }}
'''Elisabeth Brooks Luyties'''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=890jAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Elisabeth+Brooks+Luyties%22 ''Los Angeles Blue Book''], 1973, page 239</ref> (July 2, 1951 – September 7, 1997) was a Canadian actress.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|title=Elisabeth Brooks|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/8760/Elisabeth-Brooks/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525002743/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/8760/Elisabeth-Brooks/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-05-25|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|date=2014|accessdate=2015-03-01}}</ref> She is probably best remembered for her role as the evil, leather-clad siren Marsha Quist in ''The Howling'' (1981).<ref>{{cite news|title=The Howling (1981)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/23755/The-Howling/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131222041353/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/23755/The-Howling/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-12-22|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Cavett Binion|date=2013|accessdate=2015-03-01}}</ref> Her other film appearances included ''Deep Space'' (1988) and ''The Forgotten One'' (1989).
==Life and career== Brooks was born on July 2, 1951, in Toronto, Ontario, and adopted by William Harrison "Sandy" Luyties Jr. and his wife Joan (née Brooks) when she was six months old.<ref>[http://www.tributes.com/obituary/show/Joan-Brooks-Luyties-89924485 "St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri 19 Feb 1952, Tue • Page 34"] Newspapers.com, Michelle Rochette, 29 Nov 2018</ref> Brooks has two brothers and two sisters: Judson, Jonica, Megan, and Seth. To family and friends, Brooks was known as Lissa.
She began her acting career aged five, encompassing both stage and screen. She started appearing in television roles in the mid-1970s and managed to pursue her acting career as a single mother while working a variety of jobs to support herself and her son. She had a brief role in ''Rich Man, Poor Man'' (1976), and then appeared regularly on the soap opera ''Days of Our Lives'', and in popular television series such as ''The Rockford Files'', ''Kolchak: The Night Stalker'', ''Hart to Hart'', ''Starsky and Hutch'', ''The Six Million Dollar Man'', and ''Emergency!''
After a two and half year struggle with brain cancer, Brooks died in Haven Hospice near her home in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 46.<ref name="Lentz">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A5sHAQAAMAAJ&q=%22September+7%2C+1997%22|title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts|first1=Harris M.|last1=Lentz|publisher=McFarland & Company|year=1997|page=21|isbn=9780786404605 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1997-09-17-1997260022-story.html|title=Elisabeth Brooks, 46, an actress seen on television shows...|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|date=September 17, 1997}}</ref><ref name="Deseret">{{cite news|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/583702/TV-actress-Elisabeth-Brooks-dies-of-cancer-at-46.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150607210249/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/583702/TV-actress-Elisabeth-Brooks-dies-of-cancer-at-46.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 7, 2015|title=TV actress Elisabeth Brooks dies of cancer at 46|newspaper=Deseret News|agency=Associated Press|date=September 18, 1997}}</ref> Brooks was survived by her son Jeremy and her best friend and ex-girlfriend Kristy McNichol,<ref name="Lentz"/> her death coming four days shy of McNichol's 35th birthday.<ref name="Deseret"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Garcia |first1=Victoria |title=Kristy McNichol finally realized her heart didn't belong to men: Her life of privacy with wife Martie Allen |url=https://en.newsner.com/news/kristy-mcnichols-life-and-struggles-after-family-ended/ |website=Newsner English |access-date=9 January 2024 |date=18 September 2020}}</ref>
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