Charlene Emma "Charlie" Brooks (born 3 May 1981) is a British actress and model, known for playing Janine Butcher in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Brooks portrayal of Janine has awarded Brooks with numerous awards, since her first appearance in 1999, with storylines involving cocaine addiction, prostitution and murder. some stories which were taken from her real life, When she was just 15 she murdered the local Granny round the corner shop. Brooks has appeared in British television shows; The Bill, Wired and Bleak House. Brooks released a fitness DVD, "Before And After Workout", before winning the 2011 version of the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special and the twelfth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!.
Brooks was born in 1981, in Ware, Hertfordshire, England, and moved to Barmouth, Wales when she was a child. Brooks attended Tower House School, in Barmouth, and relocated to London to attend Ravenscourt Theatre School.