Brooke Shields

At 59 years old, Brooke Shields has this physical status:

Career

Shields began working as a model when she was 11 months old in 1966. When she was first fired by Francesco Scavullo, she was working for Ivory Soap. Eileen Ford, a model agent who appeared on Lifetime, continued her child modeling with Shields. Shields appeared in Woody Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall, but the film's final cut cut cut her role. In 1978, when she was 12 years old, Shields appeared as a child prostitute in the controversial film 'British Baby.' Brooke Shields is a professional child and unusual, according to Eileen Ford, the Ford Modeling Agency's founder. She seems to be an adult and pretends she is one."

Shields, 14-year-old, was the first fashion model to appear on Vogue's cover in 1980. Shields appeared in Calvin Klein jeans' controversial print and television ads later this year. "You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins," the TV commercial featured. "Nothing" has been said. Brooke Shields' ads will help propelt Klein's career to super-designer fame.

Shields, her mother, photographer Garry Gross, and Playboy Press were all involved in litigation in New York City Courts over her mother's right to photographs (when dealing with models that are minors, a parent or legal guardian must sign such a waiver form, though other arrangements are subject to negotiation). Gross was the photographer of a controversial series of nude photographs taken in 1975 of a then 10-year-old Brooke Shields with the permission of her mother, Teri Shields, for the Playboy Press publication Sugar 'n' Spice. The photographs depict Shields nude, standing and sitting in a bathtub, wearing makeup, and soiled with oil. Due to a strange twist in New York law, the judge ruled in favor of the photographer. Brooke Shields would have been identified as a child "performer" rather than a model, rather than a model.

Shields had become one of the country's most well-known celebrities by the age of 16, thanks to her two careers as both a rebel fashion model and child actor. In its February 9, 1981, front cover story, Time magazine announced that her day rate as a model was $10,000. Shields appeared on the front page of the September issue of Paris Vogue, the October and November issues of American Vogue, and the December issue of Italian Vogue. Shields became a regular at New York City's nightclub Studio 54 during that time. A photograph of a naked Brooke Shields taken when she was ten and included in a Richard Prince's Spiritual America project sparked a stir in 2009. Following a police warning, it was removed from an exhibition at the Tate Modern.

Shields' first big film role was as a lead actress in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978), a film in which she played a child named Violet who lived in a brothel (in which there were numerous nude scenes). When the film was released, she was just 12 years old, and a lot of concern about child pornography emerged. Wanda Nevada (1979), a marginally less well-known and less well-known film, was followed by another.

Endless Love (1981), one of her best known films in two decades, is arguably The Blue Lagoon (1980), which featured nude scenes between teenage lovers on a tropical island (Shields later testified before a US congressional investigation that older body doubles were used in some of them). Endless Love received an X rating from the MPAA at the time. The film was re-edited to earn an R rating. In four years, she earned the People's Choice Award in the category of Favorite Young Performer from 1981 to 1984. Lily, a lesbian, appeared in The Misadventures of Margaret in 1998.

In 2001, Lifetime broadcasted What Makes a Family, starring Shields and Cherry Jones in a true tale about a lesbian couple who protested Florida's adoption laws.

Shields began her television career at an early age. She was the youngest guest star to ever appear on The Muppet Show in 1980, where she and the Muppets staged their own interpretation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In 1981, she became the youngest person to host ABC's Fridays, a Saturday Night Live-like sketch comedy program. Shields played Joey's stalker in one episode of the famous comedy sitcom Friends. This experience culminated in her being cast in the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan, in which she appeared from 1996 to 2000 and received a People's Choice Award in the category of Favorite Female Performer in a New Television Series for her, as well as two Golden Globe Awards.

She appeared in the USPHS PSA sponsored by the American Lung Association in the early 1980s as an initiative that VIPs should be role models and advocates of non-smoking. Brooke began supporting the USO in the mid-1980s by touring with Bob Hope.

Shields appeared on That '70s Show for a few times. Pam Burkhart, Jackie's (Mila Kunis) mother who later became briefly involved with Donna's (Laura Prepon) father (played by Don Stark), was a character. When her name was first outlined out on her '70s Show, she was left out. Shields narrated the narration for his Sony/BMG recording of The Runaway Bunny, a concerto for violin, orchestra, and reader, directed by Glen Roven. The Royal Philharmonic and Ittai Shapira appeared in Ittai Shapira.

In 1993, she appeared in "The Front" on a Season 4 episode of The Simpsons.

Shields appeared on shows such as FX's Nip/Tuck and CBS' Two and a Half Men in the late 2000s. Shields appeared in "Blue Balls Lagoon" on HBO's Entourage in 2005. Susan Stewart, Miley and Jackson's mother, who died in 2004, appeared on Disney's Hannah Montana in 2007. In 2008, she appeared in the primetime drama Lipstick Jungle. A year later, the series came to an end.

Frankie Heck's mother, an army of terror-inducing children and her nemesis were first on The Middle in 2010. She also appeared in NBC's genealogy reality series, Who Do You Think You Are, where it was revealed that she is the distant cousin (many generations removed) of King Louis XIV of France, and thus a descendant of both Saint Louis and Henry IV of France.

In the 9:00 hour of Today on NBC, Shields has been an occasional guest co-host. Sheila Porter, the grandmother of Olivia Benson's adopted son, Noah Porter, recurred during Season Nineteen of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Shields has appeared in numerous Broadway musical theater productions. In the 1994 revival of Grease, she appeared as Rizzo. She played Sally Bowles in Cabaret's long-running 1998 revival beginning in July 2001. In September 2004, Shields replaced Donna Murphy in the role of Ruth Sherwood in the 2003 revival of Wonderful Town, but the show was not complete until four months later. Her success was lauded. The New York Times' Ben Brantley praised the "goofy" she brought to her role as she portrayed her as a "goofy princess," but said she fell short of Donna Murphy's "perfection." In a long-running revival of Chicago at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End in April 2005, Shields played Roxie Hart. She reprised her role in the Broadway revival from September 9 to October 30, which was later this year. This made her the first performer to have appeared in Chicago, Cabaret, and Grease on Broadway, three long-running revivals of celebrities not well known for musical theatre. Morticia Addams, a Broadway actress, took over the role of Morticia Addams in The Addams Family on June 28, 2011.

Shields wrote Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression in 2006, and she published There Was a Little Girl in 2015 about the friendship she had with her mother. Now What? founder Now What? launched in 2022. We're focusing on how people respond to adversity.

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