The eldest of three sons, Brooks Darnell, named by his father after the late baseball great Brooks Robinson, signed with a talent agency at the age of 16, and soon after tested his skills at the nationally acclaimed IMTA talent showcase, New York City competition. Darnell placed third out of more than 400 monologue contestants, winning an invitation to study at the prestigious Conservatory theatre school in San Francisco.
Darnell appeared in the 2012 feature film Total Recall, the 2016 Hallmark Channel original movie “All Yours” along with 2019’s “A Christmas Miracle” on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries. Most recently, he starred in the Hallmark Channel original movies “Advice to Love By” and “A Winter Getaway.” Darnell also he had a recurring role in Freeform’s “Shadowhunters” and has appeared in episodes of “Bones,” “Breakout Kings,” “Nothing Personal,” “Nikita” and “Ghostly Encounters.”
