May 22, 2025

This Day in Halloween: Versatile actress Brooke Smith -- featured in "The Silence of the Lambs" -- is born in New York City in 1967. / Illustration by Henry Ploch

Brooke Smith is born in New York City in 1967. The versatile actress made her name in The Silence of the Lambs, but also appeared on TV in the Canadian horror anthology The Hunger, as well as American Horror Story:Asylum, Bates Motel, Project Blue Book and Them

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