Biography

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 (2003). Among her other credits are the TV movie Ferrari (2003), and the BBC's The Kingdom of Bones (2001)_ . She also starred in the new Carlton drama series for British TV, Blue Dove (2003).

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".
- IMDb mini biography by: anonymous

James McAvoy & Jessica Brooks were the first actors to tackle the complex roles "Leto II" & his twin sister "Ghanima Atreides", the strange prescient Children of Dune (2003) in Frank Herbert's novel of the same name. Even though Leto & Ghanima were only 9 years old in the novel, their ages were bumped up about 7 years making them about 16.