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