Hillary Brooke

Hillary Brooke (born Beatrice Sofia Mathilda Peterson; September 8, 1914 – May 25, 1999) was an American film actress. She began her acting career in movies, co-starring in three Sherlock Holmes films with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Brooke frequently played English women in Hollywood films and also had a role in her only British-made film, The House Across the Lake. She was a regular on several television series of the early 1950s, portraying Roberta Townsend. Brooke, a 5'6" blonde from Queens, New York, started as a model and attended Columbia University. She spent time in the United Kingdom, mastering an RP accent that she used in her films.