Hildy Brooks

Hildy Brooks is an American actress who started on Broadway in the late 1950s, where Elia Kazan directed her in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. Moving to television, she appeared in a 1961 episode of Route 66 and the film One Plus One, credited then as Hilda Brawner. She had roles on The Guiding Light and The Nurses in 1963, and in a 1961 Defenders episode played the wife of a prison inmate. After three appearances on Naked City, she took the name Hildy Brooks in 1964. In 1972 she was Eleanor Jordan in an episode of The Bold Ones: The New Doctors. She guest-starred in series through the 1970s, 1980s and beyond, and played Margie in two filmed versions of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, including John Frankenheimer's The Iceman Cometh (1973). Her later credits include Boston Legal, ER, Cold Case and Nip/Tuck.