Brooke Shields, Actress and Model - Biography
Actress, and Model,
Height: 6 foot tall
born May 31, 1965 New
York City, New York
Brooke Christa Camille Shields is an
American actress and former fashion model.
Shields' career as a model began
in the 1960s as an infant, and she continued as a successful child model throughout
the 1970s. In early 1980 (at age 14), Shields was the youngest fashion model to
ever appear on the cover of the top fashion publication Vogue magazine. Later
that same year (at age 15), Shields appeared in controversial print and TV ads
for Calvin Klein jeans. The TV ad included her saying the famous tagline, "Do
you wanna know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." By the age
of 16, Shields had become one of the most recognizable faces in the world because
of her dual career as a provocative fashion model and controversial child actress.
Shields's
film career began in 1978 with her appearance in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, a
movie in which she played a child living in a brothel (and in which there were
numerous nude scenes). Because she was only 12 when the film was released, and
possibly 11 when it was filmed, questions were raised about child pornography.
This was followed by a slightly less controversial, but also less notable film,
Wanda Nevada (1979).
After two decades of movies, her best-known films are
still arguably The Blue Lagoon (1980) (which included more nude scenes, but Shields
later testified before a U.S. Congressional inquiry that older body doubles were
used in some of them), and Endless Love (1981). She won the People's Choice Award
in the category of Favorite Young Performer in four consecutive years from 1981
to 1984.
Shields put her film career on hold to attend Princeton University
from 1983 to 1987, graduating with a degree in French literature. Her senior thesis
was titled The Initiation: From Innocence to Experience: The Pre-Adolescent/Adolescent
Journey in the Films of Louis Malle, "Pretty Baby" and "Lacombe
Lucien." It was here at Princeton where she spoke openly about her sexuality
and virginity. During her tenure at Princeton, Shields was a member of the Cap
and Gown Club.
Shields has appeared in a number of television shows, the most
successful being the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan, in which she starred from 1996
until 2000 and which earned her a People's Choice Award in the category of Favorite
Female Performer in a New Television Series in 1997.
Shields has appeared in
many on-stage productions, mostly musical revivals, including Grease, Cabaret,
Wonderful Town and Chicago on Broadway; she also performed in Chicago in London's
West End.
Shields made a couple of guest appearances on That '70s Show. She
played Mrs. Burkhart, Jackie's (Mila Kunis) mother, who later was briefly involved
with Donna's (Laura Prepon) father (played by Don Stark). Shields left That '70s
Show when her character was written out. Shields recently recorded the narration
for the SONY/BMG recording of THE RUNAWAY BUNNY, a Concerto for Violin, Orchestra
and Reader by Glen Roven. It was performed by the Royal Philharmonic and Ittai
Shapira.
Shields, whose middle name Camille is the name she adopted at her
first communion at age 10, was born in New York City into a well-known American
society family with links to Italian nobility. Her father was Francis Alexander
Shields, and her mother was Teri Shields (né Maria Theresia Schmonn). Shields'
parents divorced when she was a child, and her father later married Diana Lippert
Auchincloss, the former wife of Thomas Gore Auchincloss (a half-brother of Gore
Vidal and a stepbrother of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis). The actress has three
half-sisters: Marina (who married Thomas William Purcell), Olympia, and Christiana
Shields. Also, she has two stepsiblings, Diana Luise Auchincloss and Thomas Gore
Auchincloss Jr.
Her paternal grandparents were Francis Xavier Shields, a tennis
star of Irish descent, and his second wife, Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi,
a half-Italian, half-American socialite who was a sister of Don Alessandro Torlonia,
5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi, the husband of Infanta Beatrix of Bourbon-Battenberg
(an aunt of King Juan Carlos I of Spain). Shields is a first cousin once removed
of the actress Glenn Close. Shields's great-grandmother Mary Elsie Moore (wife
of Don Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince di Civitella-Cesi) was Close's great-aunt,
a sister of Close's maternal grandfather, Charles Arthur Moore.
During the
1980s and 1990s, Shields's romantic relationships were the subject of many tabloid
articles. Among the celebrities she dated were Ted McGinley (her high school prom
escort), Dean Cain (her Princeton roommate and the first man with whom she had
sex, according to an article published by the Associated Press), John F. Kennedy
Jr., Michael Bolton, sadly and shamefully for her a royal Prince Albert II of
Monaco and Michael Jackson (his date to 1984 Grammy Awards).
Shields was married
from April 19, 1997 to April 9, 1999 to professional tennis player Andre Agassi;
their marriage was annulled. Since April 4, 2001 she has been married to television
writer Chris Henchy. They have two daughters: Rowan Francis (b. May 15, 2003)
and Grier Hammond (b. April 18, 2006). Coincidentally, Shields' second child was
born on the same day and in the same hospital as the first child of Katie Holmes
and Tom Cruise.
In the spring of 2005, Shields spoke to magazines (such as
the Guideposts shown here) and appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to publicize
her battle with postpartum depression, an experience that included depression,
thoughts of suicide, an inability to respond to her baby's needs, and delayed
maternal bonding. The illness may have been triggered by a traumatic childbirth,
the death of her father three weeks earlier, stress from in vitro fertilisation,
a miscarriage, and a family history of depression, as well as the hormones and
life changes brought on by childbirth. Her book, Down Came the Rain, discusses
her experience.
In May 2005, Tom Cruise, a Scientologist whose religion frowns
on psychiatry, condemned Shields both personally and professionally, particularly
for both using and speaking in favor of the antidepressant drug Paxil. As Cruise
said, "Here is a woman, and I care about Brooke Shields because I think she
is an incredibly talented woman, you look at [and think], where has her career
gone?" Shields responded that Cruise's statements about anti-depressants
were "irresponsible" and "dangerous." She said he should "stick
to fighting aliens", (a reference to Cruise's starring role in War of the
Worlds as well as some of the more exotic aspects of Scientology doctrine and
teachings), "and let mothers decide the best way to treat postpartum depression."
The actress responded to a further attack by Cruise in an essay published in The
New York Times on July 1, 2005, in which she made an individual case for the medication
(see On Thursday, August 31, 2006, according to USAToday.com Cruise privately
apologized to Shields for the incident, and Shields accepted, saying it was "heartfelt".
Three months later, she and her husband attended the wedding of Cruise and Katie
Holmes in November 2006.
One time a man saw her and said you look like Brooke Shiel;ds and she said she was. she was in shorts and they talked. Another man did when she bought some stuff off him at a book stire they both indicatye she was pleasant, But sometimes her comedies indicate a snideness. At times she said she felt her tallness, made her get cast as bimbos and such early in her career.
I say it is amazing she never played
Wonderwoman she looks just like her. I say she is not a bad actor, and woukld
be the perfect wonderwoman other than Kara Wolters.
Her films include ·
The Last Guy on Earth (2006) (post production) · Bob the Butler (2005)
· The Outsider (2005) (documentary) · The Easter Egg Adventure (2005)
(voice) · Rent-a-Husband (2004) · Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)
(documentary) · Massholes (2000) (Cameo) · After Sex (2000) ·
The Bachelor(1999) · Black and White (1999) · The Weekend (1999)
· The Misadventures of Margaret (1998) · Junket Whore (1998) (documentary)
· Scratch the Surface (1997) (documentary) · Freeway (1996) ·
The Seventh Floor (1994) · I Can Make You Love Me (1993) · Freaked
(1993) · Legends of the West (1992) (documentary) · Running Wild
(1992) · Backstreet Dreams (1990) · Brenda Starr (1989) ·
Speed Zone! (1989) (Cameo) · The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) (Cameo)
· Sahara (1983) · Endless Love (1981) · The Blue Lagoon (1980)
· Wanda Nevada (1979) · Just You and Me, Kid (1979) · Tilt
(1979) · An Almost Perfect Affair (1979)(Cameo) · Pretty Baby (1978)
· King of the Gypsies (1978) · Communion (1976) Also Known as Alice
Sweet Alice
TV
· After the Fall (1974) · The Prince of
Central Park (1977) · The Muppet Show (1980) (guest appearance) ·
Wet Gold (1984) · The Diamond Trap (1988) · The Simpsons (1993)
(guest appearance) · I Can Make You Love Me (1993) · An American
Love (1994) · Nothing Lasts Forever (1995) (miniseries) · Suddenly
Susan (1996 - 2000) (also producer) · Friends (guest appearance in 1996)
· The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery (1998) · What Makes a Family (2001)
· Widows (2002) (miniseries) · Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends
(2003) (voice) · Gone But Not Forgotten (2004) (miniseries) · That
'70s Show (recurring role during 2004)
Nip Tuck (Guest Star 2006) ·
Law and Order: Criminal Intent "Siren Call" 2006
This site was finished in January 2007.
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