Brooke Shields

At 58 years old, Brooke Shields has this physical status:

Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and model.

She began as a child model and gained critical acclaim at age 12 for her role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she played a child prostitute in New Orleans in the early twentieth century.

Shields earned a lot of attention in the role, and she continued to act in numerous dramas in the 1980s, including The Blue Lagoon (1980) and Franco Zeffirelli's Endless Love (1981). Shields withdrew left her career as a model to attend Princeton University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in Romance Languages in 1983.

Shields returned to acting in minor roles in films in the 1990s.

She has appeared in the NBC sitcoms Suddenly Susan (1996–2000), for which she has two Golden Globe awards, and Lipstick Jungle (2008–2009).

In 2017, Shields returned to NBC in a significant role in the Show's 19th season, which included the Special Victims Unit.

Mr. Pickles, an adult Swim animated film, has been starring Beverly Goodman since 2014.

Early life

Brooke Christa Shields was born in Manhattan, New York, on May 31, 1965, the niece of actress and model Teri Shields (née Schmon, 1933-2005) and businessman Frank Shields (1941–2003). Her mother was of English, German, Scotch-Irish, and Welsh descent, while her father had English, French, Irish, and Italian roots.

Shields has ancestral connections with a number of distinguished families from Italy, particularly from Genoa and Rome, according to William Addams Reitwiesner's study. These are mainly the Gattilusi-Palaiologos-Savoy, Grimaldi, Imperiali, Carafa, Doria, Dorma, Chigi-Albani, Chigi-Albani, and Torlonia dynasties, arranged in chronological order of descent from 1355 to 1965. Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi, the daughter of an Italian prince and an American socialite, was her paternal grandmother. Alessandro Torlonia, the husband of Infanta Beatriz of Spain, was her great-uncle.

Frank's family paid her a lot to end the pregnancy when Teri announced that she was pregnant. Teri took the money but later broke the deal and gave birth to Shields. Frank married Teri, but they were divorced before Shields was five months old. She has two stepbrothers and three half-sisters. "She's the most beautiful child and I'm going to help her with her career" when Shields was just five days old. Shields took piano, ballet, and horse riding lessons as a child.

Shields were raised in the Roman Catholic faith. Camille is the name she took for her confirmation at the age of ten, after Camillus de Lellis. She lived in Haworth, New Jersey, across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan, while attending high school. Shields claimed that her first encounter with the paparazzi was in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria New York at the age of 12, claiming she "stood like a statue asking why they were all hired to photograph me" and that she "debuted at the Waldorf."

Shields attended New Lincoln School until eighth grade. In 1983, she graduated from Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey. She went to Princeton University to complete her bachelor's degree in French literature, where she graduated in 1987. She was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club and Cap and Gown Club. On Your Own was her autobiography, published in 1985. "The Innocence of Innocence: From Innocence to Experience: The Pre-Adolescent Journey in Louis Malle's Films was titled "From Innocence to Experience," she wrote in 1987.

In the Life Magazine's July 1987 issue, Shields' four-year transcript was published shortly after she had graduated from college. The New York Times published a light-hearted op-ed article based on the transcript's findings, aiming to refute Princeton's assertion that it produced outstanding, well-rounded graduates. Shields achieved all As and Bs, paid attention to her school teaching, nor did Princeton insist she take any classical studies, medieval, modern, or American history, nor any course in mathematics, philosophy, economics, political science, world literature, or science with laboratory experience, despite her claim that Princeton did not expect her to take any classical studies, medieval, modern, or American history. "I]f that contributes to a liberal arts education from a school like Princeton, there is no guarantee that our society will ever be suffering from elitism in any form."

Personal life

She grew up on the Upper East Side as a child.

Shields related that she lost her virginity at the age of 22 to actor Dean Cain when they were dating at Princeton in the June 2009 issue of Health magazine. It may have happened earlier if she had a better self-image.

Shields marketed physical fitness as an extension of femininity in the 1990s, ensuring that femininity and athletics are compatible.

Shields is a vegan and an animal rights campaigner. Despite being outraged by the fur trade in 1989, Shields went on to design her own mink fur coat at Kopenhagen Fur.

Shields has been married twice in the past. She was married to tennis player Andre Agassi from 1997 to 1999; the couple had been together since 1993. After her divorce from Agassi, she married television journalist Chris Henchy in 2001, after they first met through common acquaintances in 1999. They have two children and live in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City.

She is a spokeswoman for Tupperware's Chain of Confidence SMART Girls campaign, a charity that assists girls in their emotional and physical health.

Shields appeared in magazines (such as Guideposts) and on The Oprah Winfrey Show to publicize her struggle against postpartum depression, which also included bouts of suicide, anxiety, inability to respond to her baby's needs, and postponed maternal bonding. Down Came the Rain talks about her experience, which has resulted in increased public knowledge of postpartum depression.

Both personally and professionally, actor Tom Cruise—a Scientologist who skepticism about psychiatry—damned Shields for using and advocating for the antidepressant drug Paxil. "Here is a woman and I care about Brooke Shields because I think she is an amazing woman, and she should know where her career has gone," Cruise said. Cruise's antidepressant remarks, according to Shields, were "irresponsible" and "dangerous." "He should stick to fighting aliens," Cruise's involvement in War of the Worlds, as well as some of Scientology's more esoteric aspects of Scientology theory and instruction, "and let mothers determine the right way to cope with postpartum depression." Shields responded to a cruise ship's "War of Words," published in The New York Times on July 1, 2005, in which she made an individual case for the medication and said, "In a strange way, it was comforting to me when my obstetrician told me that my feelings of extreme anxiety and my suicidal thoughts were directly related to a biochemical change in my body." When we acknowledge that postpartum is a serious medical condition, the therapy becomes more available and socially acceptable. I have now taped off the medication as a result of a doctor's visit, but without it, I would not have become the loving parent I am today." Cruise apologised in person to Shields for the incident on August 31, 2006; she expressed sorrow in a letter. Katie Holmes and her husband attended Katie Holmes' wedding in November.

Shields said:

She wrote anecdotes, including an occasion in which she was his date for one of Elizabeth Taylor's weddings, and the pair sneaked into Taylor's room to get the first glance at her gown, only to discover Taylor asleep in the bed. Shields cries over a tumescent speech in which she and Jackson recalled numerous memories and briefly joked about his famous sequin glove. She also spoke about Jackson's favorite song, "Smile," by Charlie Chaplin, which was later performed in Jermaine Jackson's memorial service.

In a 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Jackson admitted that he was dating Shields at the time. Shields has confirmed that Jackson has requested her to marry him repeatedly and also to adopt a child together.

Shields were discussed in a 2001 interview with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Jackson referred to Shields:

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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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