[1][2] Later the couple divorced and Brooks married English film director and screenwriter James Dearden, the son of Scottish actress Melissa Stribling and English film director Basil Dearden.
[3] In January 2016, Brooks founded Avenue, originally Petersham Properties, a luxury home rentals company, with her friend Gael Boglione.
In 1988 she played Daisy in A Handful of Dust, a British film based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh starring James Wilby and Kristin Scott Thomas.
The same year, Brooks appeared in Paris by Night written and directed by David Hare and starring Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon and Iain Glen.
It was written and directed by John Maybury and stars Derek Jacobi, Daniel Craig and Tilda Swinton.