Brooklyn Sudano

Brooklyn Sudano, an American actress and director, left Vanderbilt University early to train at New York's Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. A modeling agent spotted her there, and she signed with the Ford Modeling Agency, taking on print and television advertising work. In 2003 she became Vanessa Scott on the ABC comedy My Wife and Kids and remained a regular through the rest of its run. Her first leading film part was in Rain (2006). She later took roles in Somebody Help Me (2007) and in Alone in the Dark II (2008), and appeared in Turn the Beat Around (2010), an MTV romantic drama. She co-starred in With This Ring (2015) and had television roles in 11.22.63, the first season of Taken, and Cruel Summer as Angela Prescott. With Roger Ross Williams, she directed the 2023 documentary Love to Love You, Donna Summer, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival.