Elisabeth Brooks

Elisabeth Brooks Luyties (July 2, 1951 – September 7, 1997) was a Canadian actress. Elisabeth is probably best remembered for her role as the evil, leather-clad siren Marsha Quist in "The Howling" (1981). Her other film appearances included "Deep Space" (1988), and "The Forgotten One" (1989), starring Kristy McNichol.
Life and career.
Elisabeth was born on July 2, 1951, in Toronto, Ontario, and adopted by William Harrison "Sandy" Luyties Jr. (1927–1996) and his wife Joan (née Brooks; 1935–2010) when she was six months old. Elisabeth has two brothers and two sisters: Judson, Jonica, Megan, and Seth. To family and friends, Elisabeth was known as Lissa.
She began her acting career aged five, encompassing both stage and screen. She started appearing in television roles in the mid-1970s and managed to pursue her acting career as a single mother while working a variety of jobs to support herself and her son. She had a brief role in "Rich Man, Poor Man" (1976), and then appeared regularly on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives", and in popular television series such as "The Rockford Files", "", "Hart to Hart", "Starsky and Hutch", "The Six Million Dollar Man", and "Emergency!"
After a two and half year struggle with brain cancer, Brooks died in Haven Hospice near her home in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 46.