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Brooke Burns
Burns in March 2008
Born	Brooke Elizabeth Burns March 16, 1978 (1978-03-16) (age 32) Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present
Spouse(s)	Julian McMahon (m. 1999–2001) «start: (1999)–end+1: (2002)»"Marriage: Julian McMahon to Brooke Burns" Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Burns)

Brooke Elizabeth Burns (born March 16, 1978) is an American actress and former fashion model, perhaps best known for her role on Baywatch and Baywatch Hawaii. She co-starred in the ABC television series Miss Guided and hosted Fox game show Hole in the Wall.

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 3.1 Injury 3.2 Philanthropy 4 Filmography 5 References 6 External links

Early life

Burns was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Betsy (née Davis), a homemaker, and Brad Thomas Burns, who worked in health care.¹ Burns has two sisters. She was a ballet dancer for twelve years during childhood and started modeling at age fifteen after tearing her anterior cruciate ligament from a skiing accident.² At age 16, Burns and her family moved to Europe, where she later lived in Paris, Milan, and Germany.²

Career

From 1998 to 2001, Burns starred in Baywatch as the character Jessie Owens. Burns starred in North Shore, a prime-time soap opera on Fox that consisted of 21 episodes which ran from June 14, 2004 through January 13, 2005. In 2006, she had a supporting role on the defunct WB series Pepper Dennis playing Kathy Dinkle.

Burns appeared on Ally McBeal, Just Shoot Me!, Out of the Blue, To Tell the Truth, Death to the Supermodels, and Average Joe: Hawaii. She hosted the short-lived American version of the Dog Eat Dog game show for two summer seasons in 2002 and 2003. In Mortal Kombat Conquest, she played an ambitious young trainee of one the protagonists.

In 2001, she appeared as Vicki Vale in one of several "Batman" commercials for OnStar, opposite Bruce Thomas' Batman, reprising the role made famous by Kim Basinger in the 1989 Tim Burton-directed Batman film. For her minor role in the 2001 film Shallow Hal, the Farrelly brothers wrote a specific part for Burns after her audition.²

Burns currently co-hosts the Fox series Hole in the Wall with Los Angeles weatherman Mark Thompson.

She appeared in a Hallmark Channel Original Christmas movie, The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, co-starring Henry Winkler, on December 13, 2008. In 2009, Burns appeared in the first twelve episodes of the updated Melrose Place playing Vanessa, the most recent wife of Dr. Michael Mancini (Thomas Calabro) and mother of his five-year-old son, Noah.

Personal life

Burns was once married to Julian McMahon (1999-2001) and the two have a daughter - Madison Elizabeth - who was born in June 2000.²³ She was also briefly engaged to Bruce Willis for part of 2003 until June 2, 2004. Burns currently resides in Los Angeles.²

She smokes cigars, and has appeared on the cover of Smoke Magazine's Winter 2007/2008 edition.⁴

Injury

In November 2005, Burns broke her neck after diving into a pool at her home.² A friend, an ex-firefighter, found her, stabilized her neck, and called an ambulance by dialing 911. As a result of the injury, she has a titanium fusion in her neck comprising a plate, rod, and ten screws.²

Philanthropy

While Burns was a part of Baywatch, she and other actors from the show would teach kids how to swim and perform life guard duties.² More recently, Burns mentors for Penny Lane, a home for abused children. She has been involved with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation, and is actively involved in the Life Rolls On foundation started by Josh and Jesse Billaur. LRO helps people with spinal cord injuries get back into an active lifestyle.

Filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
2001	Shallow Hal	Pretty/Ugly Katrina
2005	The Salon	Tami
	Single White Female 2: The Psycho	Jan Lambert	Direct-to-video
	Death to the Supermodels	Eva	Direct-to-video
2007	Urban Decay	Sasha
2008	The Art of Travel	Darlene Loren
2009	Dancing Trees	Nicole
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Out of the Blue	Peg	22 episodes
1997	Conan the Adventurer		1 episode
	Ally McBeal	The Girl Jennifer Higgin	4 episodes
1998-2001	Baywatch	Jessie Owens	46 episodes
1999	Mortal Kombat: Conquest	Lori	1 episode
2002	Men, Women & Dogs	Kristle	1 episode
	A Nero Wolfe Mystery	Beatrice Epps	2 episodes
2002-2003	Just Shoot Me!	Kelly Cover model	2 episodes
2003	She Spies	Nicki Shields	1 episode
	Rock Me Baby	Erin "White Chocolate" Rimsing	1 episode
2004-2005	North Shore	Nicole Booth	21 episodes
2006	Modern Men	Angelica	1 episode
	Pepper Dennis	Kathy Dinkle Williams	13 episodes
	Trophy Wife	Kate Graham	Television movie
2007	Time and Again	Anna Malone	Television movie
2008	Trial by Fire	Kristen	Television movie
	The Most Wonderful Time of the Year	Jennifer Cullen	Television movie
2008	Miss Guided	Lisa Germain	7 episodes
2009	Mistresses	Shannon Barnes	Television movie
	CSI: Miami	Bonnie Galinetti/Marci Reeger	1 episode
	Drop Dead Diva	Christy Talbot	1 episode
	Melrose Place	Vanessa Mancini	6 episodes

References

External links

• Brooke Burns at the Internet Movie Database
• Brooke Burns at Allmovie
• Brooke Burns at TV.com

Persondata
NAME	Burns, Brooke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Burns, Brooke Elizabeth
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress
DATE OF BIRTH	March 16, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dallas, Texas, U.S.
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH