Brooke Christa Camille Shields was born May 31, 1965 in New York City and is an American actress and former fashion model.


Career


Brooke Shields' career as a model began in the mid-1960s as an infant, and she continued as a successful child model throughout the 1970s. In early 1980 (at age 14), Brooke 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), Brooke Shields appeared in controversial print and TV ads for Calvin Klein jeans. The TV ad included her saying the famous tagline, "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins." By the age of 16, Brooke 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.


Brooke Shields' 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 Brooke 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.



Brooke 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."


In 1984, Brooke Shields was Michael Jackson's date to the Grammy Awards and also dated him for a brief period.


Brooke 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.


Brooke 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.


Brooke Shields made a couple of guest appearances on That 70s Show. She played Mrs. Burkehart, Jackie's (Mila Kunis) mother who later got interested in Donna's (Laura Prepon) father (Don Stark). Brooke Shields left That 70s Show when her character left to let Donna's dad and Donna's mother (Tanya Roberts) be together.

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