Hildy Brooks

Hildy Brooks (born Hilda Brawner) is an actress who appeared on Broadway (starting in the late 1950s) and later on television. Elia Kazan directed her on the Broadway stage in Tennessee Williams' play Sweet Bird of Youth.

In 1961, she appeared on the television show Route 66 (on the episode "Mon Petit Chou") and in the movie "One Plus One" (credited as "Hilda Brawner" in both).

She later appeared on episodes of the soap opera The Guiding Light in 1963. During that same year she played a handful of roles on The Nurses, Route 66 (in the episode “Mon Petit Chou,” starring Lee Marvin and French actress Macha Meril, directed by Sam Peckinpah), and Naked City.

In Reginald Rose's “Metamorphosis” episode of The Defenders (1961), she played the wife of a prison inmate (played by Robert Duvall). She appeared on Naked City three times. Her last credit as "Hilda Brawner" came in 1964, when she changed her name to Hildy Brooks.

In 1972, she played Eleanor Jordan on "A Very Strange Triangle" episode of The Bold Ones: The New Doctors. She guest-starred in several television episodes during the 1970s, 1980s, and beyond. She is credited as "Hilda" and "Hildy" having played the same role of Margie in two recorded versions of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh: Sidney Lumet's videotaped The Iceman Cometh (Play of the Week), two-part episode of 1960, and John Frankenheimer's The Iceman Cometh (1973).

In 2010 she appeared in an episode of Nip/Tuck

Personal life

Since April 1965 she has been married to actor Jim Antonio, elder brother of actor/director Lou Antonio.