Brooke Sikkema

Brooke Sikkema was born in 1996, and lived in Clemson, South Carolina, until she was almost four. She has one brother, Tyler, who is five years older than she is. Her mother, Debbie, is from South Carolina, and her father, Dwight, is from Chicago. Brooke's love for performing was obvious when Brooke, age one, regularly entertained her grandfather and others at the Clemson Downs' nursing home. She loved Shirley Temple and often performed her songs. At age two, she sang all of "Good Ship Lollipop" (in tune) for anyone who would listen. She took dancing and loved performing in recitals. After that, Brooke took advantage of every opportunity to perform. Her family moved to Charleston, South Carolina, and she did print work and commercials. She sang solos with her church choir and won several singing competitions. She attended an international talent competition in 2003, winning 8 awards including best child monologue, best child pop song, best child Broadway song, best commercial, and the overall child actor award. She received 23 callbacks from agents, managers, and casting directors. Brooke came to Los Angeles soon after to pursue a career in acting. She did a number of short films, including The Catalyst (2005), "Death as a Tango," "Longing," and "Here and Then" and several commercials. She began performing weekly with "Giggle Gaggle" a kid's comedy/improv group. Her first SAG feature film was Beautiful Dreamer (2006), a beautiful WWII romance. A year later she was part of The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007), a horror film expected in theatres in 2008. She also appeared in the 2006 season premiere of Close to Home (2006). Recently, Brooke has been enjoying doing theatre, playing Belle in "A Christmas Carol" and Liesl in "The Sound of Music." She had the lead role of Mary Jane in the summer music show "Cruisin' at Libby's Diner" and then played Megan, the pre-teen daughter with Charles Bice-Bey as her father, as well as Glinda (singing "Popular" from "Wicked") in DEE Studio Productions' version of "The Haunted Mansion." More recently she played Sharpay and Kelsi in "High School Musical," Inga in a family-friendly version of "Young Frankenstein" and Belle in "Beauty and the Beast."