1. Brooke Christa Shields was born on May 31,1965 and is an American actress.
51 Facts About Brooke Shields
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Brooke Shields continued to model into her late teenage years and starred in several dramas in the 1980s, including The Blue Lagoon, and Franco Zeffirelli's Endless Love.
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In 1983, Brooke Shields suspended her modeling career to attend Princeton University, where she subsequently graduated with a bachelor's degree in Romance languages.
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Brooke Shields starred in the NBC sitcoms Suddenly Susan, for which she received two Golden Globe nominations, and Lipstick Jungle.
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Brooke Shields voiced Beverly Goodman in the Adult Swim animated series Mr Pickles and its spin-off Momma Named Me Sheriff.
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Brooke Shields's mother was of English, German, Scotch-Irish, and Welsh descent, while her father had English, French, Irish, and Italian ancestry.
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Brooke Shields's great-uncle was the Italian nobleman Alessandro Torlonia, the husband of Infanta Beatriz of Spain.
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Francis married Teri, but they were divorced when Brooke Shields was only five months old.
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Brooke Shields graduated from the Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1983.
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Brooke Shields began her career as a model when she was 11 months old in 1966.
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Brooke Shields continued as a successful child model with model agent Eileen Ford, who, in her Lifetime biography, stated that she started her children's division just for Shields.
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Brooke Shields looks like an adult and thinks like one.
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Brooke Shields was cast in the part after director Alfred Sole had seen her in a print advertisement for Vogue magazine.
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The film was later re-released in 1981, capitalizing on Brooke Shields's rising fame at the time.
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The 11-year-old Brooke Shields was cast as the lead in French director Louis Malle's Pretty Baby, in which she played a child named Violet who lived in a brothel, the daughter of a prostitute played by Susan Sarandon.
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Brooke Shields was portrayed as nude in a third scene where she was being held hostage.
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In 1980,14-year-old Brooke Shields was the youngest fashion model ever to appear on the cover of Vogue.
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Later that same year, Brooke Shields appeared in controversial print and TV ads for Calvin Klein jeans.
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Brooke Shields next appeared as a lead in The Blue Lagoon, which included nude scenes between teenage lovers stranded on a tropical island.
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Brooke Shields was the youngest person to host ABC's Fridays, a Saturday Night Live-like sketch comedy show, in 1981.
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Brooke Shields won the People's Choice Award in the category of Favorite Young Performer in four consecutive years from 1981 to 1984.
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In 1983, Brooke Shields appeared on the cover of the September issue of Paris Vogue, the October and November issues of American Vogue and the December edition of Italian Vogue.
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The images portray Brooke Shields nude, standing and sitting in a bathtub, wearing makeup and covered in oil.
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The ruling would have been decided otherwise if Brooke Shields had been considered a child "performer" rather than a model.
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In 1983, in the wake of the legal battle over ownership of the photos, artist Richard Prince photographed one of Gross' photos of the 10-year-old Brooke Shields standing naked in a bathtub.
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Later, when a Prince print of Brooke Shields was included in his 2009 Spiritual America exhibit at the Tate Modern, it created a stir.
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In 2005, the 40-year-old Brooke Shields let Prince photograph her wearing a bikini in the same pose as the childhood nude photo, in front of a motorcycle.
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Brooke Shields played a romantic lead in Sahara for a fee variously reported as $1 million or $1.5 million.
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For Sahara, Brooke Shields earned the distinction of being the only actress ever to win the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor.
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Brooke Shields enrolled at Princeton University in the fall of 1983 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature in 1987.
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Brooke Shields was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club and the Cap and Gown Club.
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Brooke Shields played the eponymous lead in the 1989 movie Brenda Starr, which had been shot in 1986 for an intended 1987 release but was held up for years over legal problems due to the rights to the comic strip and demands from Brooke Shields' mother that she receive top-billing in the picture, which co-starred Timothy Dalton.
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In 1993, Brooke Shields made a guest appearance in a fourth-season episode of The Simpsons, called "The Front".
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For four months, beginning July 2001, Brooke Shields portrayed Sally Bowles in the long-running Broadway revival of Cabaret.
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In 2004, Brooke Shields made several recurring guest appearances on That '70s Show playing Pam Burkhart, Jackie's mother, who later was briefly involved with Donna's father.
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Brooke Shields left That '70s Show when her character was written out.
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In 2005, Brooke Shields appeared in a second-season episode of HBO's Entourage, entitled "Blue Balls Lagoon".
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Brooke Shields took over the role of Morticia Addams in the Broadway musical The Addams Family beginning on June 28,2011.
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Shields is the subject of the 2023 documentary, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, directed by Lana Wilson, who directed the Taylor Swift documentary, Miss Americana.
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In 2024, Brooke Shields was elected the president of the Actors' Equity Association and starred in the Netflix film Mother of the Bride opposite Miranda Cosgrove.
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In 2006, she penned the book Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression, in 2015 she published There Was a Little Girl about the relationship she had with her mother, who suffered from alcoholism throughout Shields's life, and in 2025 she published Brooke Shields is not Allowed to Get Old about aging as a woman.
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Brooke Shields maintained a home in Los Angeles, which she purchased in 1998 and sold in 2022.
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Brooke Shields dated actor Dean Cain while studying at Princeton University.
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Between April and May 2005, Brooke Shields spoke to magazines 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.
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On July 7,2009, Brooke Shields spoke at the memorial service for Michael Jackson.
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Brooke Shields stated in that speech that she first met Jackson when she was 13 years old, and the two instantly became friends.
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Brooke Shields gave a tearful speech, referring to the many memories she and Jackson shared and briefly joked about his famous sequin glove.
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Brooke Shields mentioned Jackson's favorite song, "Smile" by Charlie Chaplin, which was later sung in the memorial service by Jermaine Jackson.
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Brooke Shields has stated that Jackson asked her to marry him numerous times and to adopt a child together.
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Brooke Shields's pictures were all over my wall, my mirror, everything.
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Shortly after Brooke Shields graduated from Princeton University, her four-year transcript was published in the July 1987 edition of Life magazine.