Brooke Allison English (formerly Cudahy, Chandler, and Martin) is a fictional character on the television soap opera All My Children.

[2][3] Barr made a special appearance as Brooke on January 5, 2010, as part of the series' 40th anniversary, and returned on February 23, 2010, for a two-month stint until April 23, 2010.

In 1976, Brooke English arrived on the doorstep of Phoebe Tyler (Ruth Warrick), her aunt, as a wild teenager who was struggling to find her true love.

Brooke, still trying to find the right man, began an affair with Eddie Dorrance (Warren Burton), manager of singer Kelly Cole.

It is an event that stayed with Brooke for the rest of her life, as she continued to mourn the loss of her pride and joy.

When Brooke discovered that she could not bear any more children, Adam began to get anxious to have an heir to the Chandler fortune.

He hired Dixie Cooney (Cady McClain), the niece of Palmer Cortlandt (James Mitchell), his bitter business rival, to be a nanny.

They divorced, and Brooke began to work closely with Dixie's true love, Tad Martin (Michael E. Knight).

While Brooke was pregnant, she began to rely on Jackson Montgomery (Walt Willey), another one of Erica's old flames.

Brooke nearly lost her baby when she and Jack were hit by Arlene Vaughan (Phyllis Lyons), who was driving drunk at the time.

Despite having to be cut out of her car, Brooke gave birth to a healthy baby boy, James Edward Martin, whom she called Jamie.

She began to see Edmund Grey (John Callahan), whose hot and cold behaviour left her angry and his obsession with discovering his lineage and birthright strained the ties between them.

Adam wanted Brooke back, but she was still reeling from their previous marriage, which ended when he had an affair with Dixie.

Undergoing hypnosis, Pierce remembered that he fell in love with the woman in his flashbacks, Christina, in Central America.

While searching for the truth behind the plane crash, she met a man that would help her through the ordeal, as he was the fourth survivor, Jim Thomasen.

Laura had posed for the pictures for money to help take care of her sick mother, Terry Kirk.

Jim was with her every step of the way, and they learned that the plane's crash was attributed to faulty turbine blades and that Adam Chandler was behind it.

Brooke would find the pictures thanks to a tip-off and receive a ransom note demanding that the police were not to be notified about Laura's disappearance.

Though she told Brooke that she knew Ricky, the former didn't tell her mother that Jim had been the photographer after declaring a truce with him to keep it a secret between themselves.

Scared about the murder charges and convinced that she wouldn't win the trial, Brooke went on the run with Jamie.

It came to the surface when Arlene Vaughan was drunk and crashed her car into a telephone pole that broke through the community centre's wall.

More importantly, Brooke was left to question herself for allowing herself to fall in love with the man who had killed her daughter.

Laura's condition would soon worsen, and Brooke paid a married couple to donate the heart of their dead nephew.

She had seen a painting of Wildwind, the estate in Pine Valley that belonged to the Grey family, drawn by a Maureen Gorman.

Over the last couple of months in Pine Valley, Brooke remained in the background, focusing on raising Jamie and Amanda.

However, Brooke reappeared in the All My Children 40th anniversary special four years later and on February 23, 2010, she returned until departing again exactly two months later.

In that short period of time, Brooke and her ex-husband Adam Chandler went off into the sunset together in a particularly romantic happy ending.

[4] Despite 30 years of service to All My Children, at that time neither Barr nor Brooke received any formal farewell; the character simply vanished, and was then mentioned only infrequently.

"[6] Barr eventually returned in 2010, first with the All My Children 40th anniversary special in January, and then for a two-month stint from February to April during which time Brooke takes over as editor-in-chief of Tempo, is involved in a terrible car accident, and falls in love, all of which culminate with Brooke and her former husband Adam Chandler, reuniting and officially leaving town together.

The final scenes of the show take place in the Chandler mansion on September 23, 2011, during which Adam proposes to Brooke and she accepts.