Brooklyn Decker
Brooklyn Decker is an actor, born 1987.
The interesting part of Brooklyn Decker's filmography is not the start, it is the turn. She came to film from modelling, best known for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue including the 2010 cover, and for the Victoria's Secret Swim collection that year. Television guest slots on Chuck, Ugly Betty, The League and Royal Pains followed, and her feature debut arrived in 2011 with Just Go with It, although a walk-on credited as a woman passing a bench in Solitary Man predates it by two years.
The studio comedies that followed used her the way studio comedies use a swimsuit cover: Battleship, What to Expect When You're Expecting, Stretch. Then she started turning up in small American independents that had no commercial reason to hire her and clearly wanted an actor. Results, Lovesong, Band Aid, and best of all Support the Girls, where she plays Kara among a cast of women being ground down by a job.
Grace and Frankie, from 2015, gave her the long game: Mallory Hanson across a Netflix comedy with an unusually good ensemble, and a part that quietly grew as the show went on. Born in Kettering, Ohio, in 1987, she has taken a route through the industry that its own casting logic did not predict.
Movies (9)
TV (5)
Where to start with Brooklyn Decker
Watch Support the Girls before anything else here. It is a small, sharp, generous film about work, and she is folded into an ensemble rather than lit as a centrepiece, which is exactly the context that shows what she can do.
Results is the other good argument for her: loose, oddly paced, and full of actors playing against their usual settings. Lovesong is quieter still. Band Aid rounds out the indie run.
For the mainstream version, Grace and Frankie is the most rewarding, because five seasons let a character accumulate. Just Go with It and Battleship are the big-budget entries and the least revealing; watch them for the career arc rather than the performances.