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Brooke Christa Shields is the daughter of Frank Shields a Revlon executive and
Teri Shields a former model born on May 31, 1965 in New York.
Her grandfather was Francis Shields, a professional tennis player. Her grandmother,
Marina Torlonia, was an Italian aristocrat, and through her Brooke can claim descent from
Henri IV, King of France, Lucrezia Borgia, and Honore I,
Prince of Monaco, among others. Her great-grandmother, Elsie Moore, was the sister of
Glenn Close's grandfather.
She, at the age of 11 months, was the Most Beautiful Baby in America for Ivory Snow soap advertisements and was a runway model by age
three. After spending many years hawking products, she was in such demand that her mother started marketing her under the logo
Brooke Shields & Co. Shields made her feature film debut in Alice Sweet Alice,
1976, but did not become a bona fide star until French director Louis Malle cast her as a 12-year-old New Orleans prostitute who becomes the romantic obsession of a much older painter in
Pretty Baby, 1978. Her questionable nude scene at the age of 13 caused an uproar.
Her best-known film is The Blue Lagoon, 1980 in which she and teenage hunk
Christopher Atkins find themselves shipwrecked for years on a desert
island. While filming the Blue Lagoon, she had to have her hair glued to her breasts so nothing would show. While Shields is not considered a natural actor, she has “something”
- it’s more than just a pretty face that keep the roles coming her way
non-stop. Shields tried her hand with a more serious role in tepid teen romance Endless
Love, but did not succeed. So she took a break and decided to pursue her education.
Brooke's first college choice was Harvard. But mom Teri demanded the school accept Brooke
BEFORE she applied for admission. It declined, and Brooke ultimately went to
Princeton. While at Princeton University, where Shields was an honors graduate in French Literature, she pursued her love for the
theatre. After graduation she made her Broadway debut as Rizzo in the hit musical
Grease earning the Theatre World Award in 1994 for Outstanding Debut on Broadway.
Between the years of 1980 and 1985, she appeared on more than 250 magazine covers
internationally. In 1997 and 1998 she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series –
Musical or Comedy, and was also nominated for The American Comedy Awards’
Funniest Female Performer in a Television Series – Leading Role and has also won five
People’s Choice Awards – Favorite Young Performer in 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984 and Favorite Female Performer in a New Television Series in 1997. In 1999 Shields received the
Genii Award for Outstanding Success in Television, Stellar Achievements in Television Performances and Good Citizenship in the Television Community.
In 1996, Shields was given her own situation comedy on NBC network's Suddenly
Susan, where she played a single career girl struggling to reassemble her life following her breakup with her wealthy fiancé.
Off-camera, the leggy actress saw a lot of turbulence in her personal life. She dated
Liam Neeson, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Dean Cain, was engaged to tennis pro
Andre Agassi after a much-publicized relationship and married in 1997, divorcing him in 1999.
Shields is author of two books, The Brooke Book and On Your Own. She has even taken to the stage, in a Broadway revival of
Grease. She also continues to continues to lend her voice and support to issues involving children's welfare and life-threatening diseases.
She is now married to TV writer Chris Henchy since April 2001, after her 2-year failed marriage to Agassi. Brooke was last seen in several guest appearances on
Just Shoot Me, as well as the 2001 film After Sex, and the made-for-TV movies
What Makes a Family and Widows.
Some of the “somethings” she does have are charisma, highly photogenic beauty and driving
ambition. And It all seems to be working very well.
Brooke's reply to mature roles, offered to her when she was 15 years old:
"What does 'good in bed' mean to me? When I'm sick and stay home from school watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed."
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