Brooke Smith is an American actress. She is best known for her role on the TV show Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Erica Hahn and for her role as Catherine Martin in the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs.
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress
Movies
The Silence of the Lambs, In Her Shoes, Vanya on 42nd Street, Fair Game, Bad Company, Series 7: The Contenders, Iron Jawed Angels, Labor Day, Melinda and Melinda, A Little Help, Random Hearts, Last Summer in the Hamptons, The Namesake, Mr. Wonderful, Trees Lounge, The Moderns, The Broken Giant, The ...
TV Shows
Grey's Anatomy
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[About the Grey's Anatomy (2005) set.] They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say "Grey's Anatomy Season 4" with our names on it. Cool. (2007)
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[on filming her torture scenes in The Silence of the Lambs (1991).] I had bad dreams before shooting, but when we started, it was cathartic. I screamed so much, it was like primal therapy. (2007)
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[About gaining notoriety from her work on Grey's Anatomy (2005).] I'm anxious about losing anonymity. I keep asking Chyler Leigh, "How's the supermarket?". (2007)
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Fact
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She costarred with her future Grey's Anatomy cast member Ellen Pompeo on the March 13, 1996 episode of "Law and Order".
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Was originally cast as Andrea Smithson for the ABC series Dirty Sexy Money (2007) in its pilot episode but was replaced by Sheryl Lee.
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She adopted a baby girl from Ethiopia named Lucy Dinknesh Lubensky.
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Mother is retired PR powerhouse Lois Smith, whose clients have included Robert Redford. Father is publisher Gene Smith.
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Was in labor with her daughter Fanny for 78 hours and refused an epidural.
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With husband Steven Lubensky (35 years old), has a daughter, Fanny (4 years old). (2007).
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Shared an apartment with Jeff Buckley before the recording of his album "Grace".
$750 Thousand
