   brooke elizabeth burns (born march 16, 1978) is an american actress, television presenter, and former fashion model. she began her career on the popular tv series baywatch and baywatch hawaii. ==early life== burns was born in dallas, texas, the daughter of brad and betsy burns.brooke burns biography (1977?-) burns has two sisters. she was a ballet dancer for twelve years during childhood and started modeling at age fifteen after tearing her anterior cruciate ligament in a skiing accident. at age 16, burns and her family moved to europe, where she later lived in paris, milan, and munich. ==career== ===television=== from 1998 to 2001, burns starred in baywatch as the character jessie owens. in 2001, she appeared as vicki vale in one of several "batman" commercials for onstar, opposite bruce thomas's batman, reprising the role made famous by kim basinger in the 1989 tim burton-directed batman film. burns hosted nbc's dog eat dog from june 2002 to august 2003 and was nominated for a teen choice award. burns starred in north shore, a prime-time soap opera on fox that consisted of 21 episodes which ran from june 14, 2004 through january 13, 2005. in 2006, she starred in the wb series pepper dennis playing kathy dinkle. in 2009, burns appeared in the first twelve episodes of the updated melrose place playing vanessa, the most recent wife of dr. michael mancini (thomas calabro) and mother of his older son's five-year-old son, noah. burns was given the chance to participate in the first season of the abc celebrity diving reality competition splash, but turned it down because of an injury she had received when diving a few years before.{{cite web|url=http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=801
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