Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields
Born	Brooke Christa Camille Shields
Years active	1974 ─ present
Spouse(s)	Andre Agassi (1997 ─ 1999) Chris Henchy (2001 ─ )
Awards	People's Choice Awards Favorite Young Performer 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984 Favorite Female Performer in a New Television Series 1997

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

Biography

Career

Shields' career as a model began in the late 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. TIME magazine reported, in its February 9, 1981 cover story, that her day rate as a model was $10,000. In 1983 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.

Shields' first major film role was her 1978 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 a number of nude scenes between teenage cousins on a deserted island (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 Princeton Triangle Club and the Cap and Gown Club.

Shields' career stalled at various times, and she has told interviewers that her height (6'0") prevented her from getting roles opposite shorter male actors.

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 and two Golden Globe nominations.

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 Pam 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. She also appeared in one episode of the popular comedy sitcom Friends playing Joey's stalker. Shields 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.

Personal life

Shields was born in New York City into a well-known American society family with links to Italian nobility. She was delivered by the New Jersey obstetrician, Dr. Frederick A. Small[1]. Her father was Francis Alexander Shields, and her mother was Teri Shields (né Maria Theresia Schmonn). Shields adopted her middle name, Camille, for her Confirmation at age 10. 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 stepsister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis). The actress has three half-sisters: Marina (who married Thomas William Purcell), Olympia, and Christiana Shields. She also has two stepsiblings, Diana Luise Auchincloss and Thomas Gore Auchincloss Jr. She attended an all-girl school, Lenox. She graduated from Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey.

Her paternal grandparents were Francis Xavier Shields, a tennis star of Irish descent, and his second wife, the Italian princess 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 Beatriz of Spain (an aunt of King Juan Carlos I of Spain). Shields is a second 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' 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)[2], John F. Kennedy Jr., Michael Bolton, Prince Albert II of Monaco, and Michael Jackson (his date to the 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 Frances (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 (Saint John's Health Center) as the first child of Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, Suri.

Honorary Ambassador of Peace for the Harvey Ball Foundation along with Jackie Chan, A. V. T. Shankardass, Jerry Lewis, Prince Albert of Monaco, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, Phil Collins, Jimmy Buffett, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Darrell Waltrip, Heather Mills, Yoko Ono, Patch Adams, Sergei Khrushchev and Winnie Mandela.

Postpartum depression

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 fertilization, 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 upon 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 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 despair and my suicidal thoughts were directly tied to a biochemical shift in my body. Once we admit that postpartum is a serious medical condition, then the treatment becomes more available and socially acceptable. With a doctor's care, I have since tapered off the medication, but without it, I wouldn't have become the loving parent I am today." ([3]). On Thursday, August 31, 2006, according to USAToday.com [4], 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.

Since writing her book, Shields has guest-starred on shows like FX's Nip/Tuck and CBS' Two and a Half Men. In 2007 she made a guest appearance on Disney's Hannah Montana playing Miley, Hannah's mother.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1974	After the Fall	Quentin's Daughter	TV
1976	Alice, Sweet Alice	Karen Spages	aka Communion or Holy Terror
1977	The Prince of Central Park	Kristin	TV
1978	Pretty Baby	Violet
	King of the Gypsies	Tita
1979	An Almost Perfect Affair	uncredited
	Tilt	Brenda Louise Davenport
	Wanda Nevada	Wanda Nevada
	Just You and Me, Kid	Kate
1980	The Blue Lagoon	Emmeline
	The Muppet Show (Season 5)	Herself	TV
1981	Endless Love	Jade Butterfield
1982	The Doctors	Elizabeth Harrington	TV
1983	Sahara	Dale
1984	The Muppets Take Manhattan	Customer in Pete's
	Wet Gold	Laura	TV
1988	The Diamond Trap	Tara Holden	TV
1989	Speed Zone!	Stewardess/Herself	aka Cannonball Fever
	Brenda Starr	Brenda Starr
1990	Backstreet Dreams	Stevie
1992	Running Wild	Christine Shaye	aka Born Wild
1993	Freaked	Skye Daley
	I Can Make You Love Me	Laura Black	TV
1994	An American Love	Greta	TV
	The Seventh Floor	Kate Fletcher
1995	Nothing Lasts Forever	Dr. Beth Taft	TV
1996	Freeway	Mimi Wolverton
	Suddenly Susan (1996-2000)	Susan Keane	TV
1997	Scratch the Surface	Herself
1998	The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery	Cyndee Lafrance	TV
	Junket Whore	Herself
	The Misadventures of Margaret	Lily
1999	The Weekend	Nina
	Black and White	Sam Donager
	The Bachelor	Buckley Hale-Windsor
2000	After Sex	Kate
	Massholes	Herself
2001	What Makes a Family	Janine Nielssen	TV
2002	Widows	Shirley Heller	TV mini-series
2003	Mayor of the Sunset Strip	Herself
	Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids	voice of Miss Spider	TV
2004	Gone But Not Forgotten	Betsy Tannenbaum	TV aka Phillip Margolin's Gone But Not Forgotten
	Our Italian Husband	Charlene Taylor
	The Easter Egg Adventure	voice of Horrible Harriet Hare
2005	Bob the Butler	Anne Jamieson
	New Car Smell	April	TV
	The Outsider	Herself
2007	Hannah Montana	Susan Stewart	"I Am Hannah, Hear Me Croak" (Episode 5 , Season 2) "The Way We Almost Weren't" (Episode 21 , Season 2)
	National Lampoon's Bag Boy	Mrs. Hart
2008	Justice League: The New Frontier	Carol Ferris	(direct-to-DVD release)
	Lipstick Jungle 2008-present	Wendy	TV
	Midnight Meat Train	Susan Hoff

External links

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• WebMD article on Shields and Postpartum Depression
• "Regarding Ardy": an online short film with Brooke Shields
• William Morris listing
• "The Runaway Bunny" violin concerto, by Glen Roven and narrated by Brooke Shields
• Brooke Shields on Tom Green Live
• Brooke Shields 2007 Interview on Sidewalks Entertainment
• Brooke Shields 2007 short film on Funny Or Die