Brooke Alexander
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Brooke Alexander is an American actress. She is best known for her role as con-artist Samantha Markham on As the World Turns
As the World Turns
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...

(1994–1996).

Alexander was born in Kailua, Oahu
Oahu
Oahu or Oahu , known as "The Gathering Place", is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The state capital Honolulu is located on the southeast coast...

, Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

. She attended college at UCLA.

She originated the role of con-artist Samantha Markham on As the World Turns
As the World Turns
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...

in 1994 and played the role until 1996. She has had roles in Magnum, P.I.
Magnum, P.I.
Magnum, P.I. is an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 in first-run broadcast on the American CBS television network....

, Island Son, P.S. I Luv You, Tattingers, and The Last Nightmaster and has also appeared on One Life to Live
One Life to Live
One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...

.

She was host of the "WorldBeat" on CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

, then moved to Fox News in a correspondent capacity also appearing daily in segments previewing the day's program schedule.

From 2006 to 2007, she was a host of the "Real Simple" lifestyle television program based on the magazine of the same name.

As of early 2008, Alexander continues work as a commercial spokeswoman for various products and services, perhaps most notably the "Energy Tomorrow" campaign http://www.energytomorrow.org/advertisements.aspx from the American Petroleum Institute
American Petroleum Institute
The American Petroleum Institute, commonly referred to as API, is the largest U.S trade association for the oil and natural gas industry...

.

On September 26, 2009, Alexander married tennis player Marko Zelenovic.

Awards

  • 1981, Brooke became Miss World America and Miss Hawaii World
  • 1995, Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Female Newcomer for her performance in As the World Turns
    As the World Turns
    As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...


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