Brooks has won Black Reel Awards for 2004 film "Motives", co-starring with Vivica A. Fox and Shemar Moore. She also has starred in "Beauty Shop" (2005) and "Something New" (2006). In 2008, Brooks was cast as Kim Kaswell in the Lifetime comedy-drama pilot "Drop Dead Diva", but later was replaced by Kate Levering. In 2011, she starred in the independent film "The Inheritance". In 2012, Brooks joined the cast of "Hart of Dixie" in season 2 playing Ruby Jeffries, Mayor Lavon Hayes' ex-girlfriend from high school, who runs against him for mayor. In 2014, Brooks stars as one of five leads on the TV One reality series, "Hollywood Divas".