Jessica Kate Brooks, a native of London, England, is an actress. In musical theatre, she is a soprano. She has been featured in numerous BBC television productions, including Murder Rooms: The Kingdom of Bones and Footballer's Wives.
Jessica is perhaps best known for her role as Ghanima Atreides in the Sci-Fi Channel mini-series, Children of Dune where she played the daughter of the Emperor-Messiah Paul Atreides.
Jessica is also a trained voice-over artist, and has studied Classics at Oxford University. In 2003, she co-starred in her first feature film, Collusion.
She also recently appeared in the long-running British TV show, Casualty (series 21, episode 11 "All Through The Night") as police officer, Nikki Soames, who is new to doing night shifts, and on her first night puts a young person in hospital after a chase. She talks to Consultant Harry Harper who convinces her not to give-up her job because of one night's events.
Jessica has also appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders entitled Four Funerals and a Wedding.
It is unknown whether she will reprise her role as Nikki Soames for the still in-production Holby Blue, a Casualty/Holby City spin-off about Holby City's police force.
Jessica Brooks hails from a background of television, theater and voiceover work. Voice-trained, Brooks, a soprano, also has performed in a number of musicals and choral groups. Brooks recently completed her first feature film, Three Guesses. Among her other credits are the TV movie Enzo Ferrari, and the BBC's Murder Rooms: The Kingdom of Bones (2001) (TV). She also starred in the new Carlton drama series for British TV, Blue Dove. Brooks' theater work includes Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest for the Oxford Playhouse. For the National Youth Music Theatre, she starred in The Kissing Dance, The Ragged Child, The Valiant Apprentice and Torchbearers. Her voiceover work includes narration for documentaries, children's tales and drama, including the documentary film Children of the Sewers by the award-winning journalist Desmond Wilcox. Brooks, a London native, studied Classics at Oxford University Her first major TV role was playing Ghanima Atreides, the prescient twin daughter of Paul Atreides.
