![]() During 2011 at the Almeida Theatre, London, she appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's My City and Neil LaBute's Reasons to be Pretty. The production was directed by Jude Kelly. From July to August 2008, Brooke played Dorothy Gale in the musical The Wizard of Oz at the Southbank Centre. She has also appeared in productions of Poor Beck, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet, with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Brooke's theatre work includes Harvest, Dying City, Dido Queen of Carthage, In The Club, The Birthday Party and Absolutely Perhaps. Brooke has lent her voice to the radio dramas Murder on the Homefront, A Pin to See the Peepshow and Dreaming in Africa. She also played the lead roles of Laura in All About George and Lori Marcuse in Cape Wrath. ![]() As a child, she was featured in Strangers in Utah with Adrian Dunbar and Phyllida Law. Brooke's television credits include A Touch of Frost, Hotel Babylon, Foyle's War and The Fixer. Her acting debut was as Krista in television series Dinotopia in 2002. She initially joined the Lichfield Youth Theatre at the age of 11 before becoming a member of the National Youth Theatre and subsequently training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from where she graduated in 2002. Brooke's early education was at The Friary School in Lichfield. ![]() She is the daughter of a police officer and a teacher.Her parents are Welsh. She took on a stage name to avoid confusion with fellow actress Siân Phillips, choosing Brooke after an English Civil War general who served at Lichfield. Sian Elizabeth Phillips was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England and is the youngest of three siblings. Sian Brooke is a British actress, known for portraying Laura in All About George, Lori in Cape Wrath, and Eurus Holmes in Sherlock. ![]()
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