Brooke Shields
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Brooke Shields at Make Believe On Broadway, November 23, 2011
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| Born | Brooke Christa Shields[1] May 31, 1965 Manhattan, New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Occupation | Actress, model |
| Years active | 1966–present |
| Spouse(s) | Andre Agassi (1997–1999) Chris Henchy (2001–present); 2 daughters, Rowan and Grier |
| Parents | Frank Shields Teri Shields |
In 1983, Shields abandoned her career as a model to attend Princeton University, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in French literature. In the 1990s, Shields returned to acting, appearing in minor roles in films, and starred in the titular role of the sitcom Suddenly Susan, which ran for four seasons between 1996 and 2000. Most recently, Shields has made appearances in other television shows, including That '70s Show and Lipstick Jungle.[1]
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Early life
Brooke Christa Shields was born in New York City[2] to Frank (1941-2003) and Teri (née Schmon; 1933-2012) Shields. Through her father's side, she has Italian, French, Irish, and English roots, along with high social position and relations to nobility.[3] According to a research by William Addams Reitwiesner published in 1995, Brooke Shields has ancestral links with a number of noble families from Italy, in particular from Genoa and Rome.[4] These are namely (in chronological order of descent from 1355 to 1965) the Gattilusi-Palaiologos-Savoy; Grimaldi; Imperiali; Carafa; Doria; Doria-Pamphili-Landi; Chigi-Albani; and Torlonia dynasties.[4] Her paternal grandmother was the Italian princess Donna Marina Torlonia (Donna Marina was the daughter of an Italian nobleman and an American socialite).[4] Shields' mother was of German, English, Scots-Irish, and Welsh descent.[5][6] Shields was raised in the Roman Catholic faith.[7]When her mother Teri first announced that she was pregnant, her father Frank's family paid her a sum to terminate the pregnancy. Teri took the money, but also gave birth to their daughter Brooke.[8] Frank married Teri, but they were divorced when Brooke was five months old.[9] She has two stepbrothers and three half-sisters.[10][11]
When Shields was five days old, her mother openly stated she wanted her to be active in show business: "She's the most beautiful child and I'm going to help her with her career."[12]
For her confirmation in the Roman Catholic Church at age 10, she took the name "Camille". While attending high school, she resided in Haworth, New Jersey.[13]
Education
She attended the New Lincoln School until eighth grade.[14][15] Shields graduated from The Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1983.[1] She moved to a dorm at Princeton University to pursue her bachelor's degree in French literature, where she graduated in 1987.[16][17]At Princeton, she spoke openly about her sexuality and virginity. Shields was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club and the Cap and Gown Club. Her autobiography, On Your Own, was published in 1985.[18] Her 1987 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."[1]
On the op-ed page of The New York Times, her academic record was scrutinized after she had publicized her school records in the July 1987 edition of Life Magazine shortly after graduation from Princeton. Shields was criticized for not having taken any courses in history, mathematics, philosophy, economics, world literature or science with laboratory experience.[19]
Career
Early work
In 1980, the 14-year-old Shields was the youngest fashion model ever to appear on the cover of Vogue. Later that same year, Shields appeared in controversial print and TV ads for Calvin Klein jeans. The TV ad included her saying the famous tagline, "You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing."[1][21][22] Brooke Shields ads would help catapult Klein's career to super-designer status.[23]
From 1981 to 1983, Shields, her mother, photographer Gary Gross, Playboy Press and the New York City Courts were involved in litigation over the rights to some photographs her mother had signed away to the photographer (when dealing with models who are also minors, a parent or legal guardian must sign such a release form while other agreements are subject to negotiation) which were originally intended to appear in a book titled Sugar and Spice to be published by Playboy Press. The courts ruled in favor of the photographer, but due to a strange twist in New York law, it would have been otherwise had Brooke Shields been considered a child "performer" rather than a model.[24]
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.[1] 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.[16] During that period Shields became a regular at New York City's nightclub Studio 54.[25] In 2009, a naked picture of Brooke Shields, taken when she was 10, and included in a work by Richard Prince, Spiritual America, created a row. It was removed from an exhibition at the Tate Modern after a warning from the police.[26]
Film
After two decades of movies, her best known films are still arguably The Blue Lagoon (1980), which included nude scenes between teenage lovers on a tropical island (Shields later testified before a U.S. Congressional inquiry that older body doubles were used in some of them), and Endless Love (1981). The MPAA initially rated Endless Love with an X rating. The film was re-edited to earn an R rating.[30] She won the People's Choice Award in the category of Favorite Young Performer in four consecutive years from 1981 to 1984. In 1998, she played a lesbian, Lily, in The Misadventures of Margaret.[31]
In 2001, Lifetime aired the film What Makes a Family, starring Shields and Cherry Jones in a true story of a lesbian couple who fought the adoption laws of Florida.[32]
Television appearances
Shields has appeared in a number of television shows. In 1980, she was the youngest guest star to ever appear on The Muppet Show, in which she and the Muppets put on their own version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She was also the youngest person to host ABC's Fridays, a Saturday Night Live-like sketch comedy show, in 1981. In one episode of the popular comedy sitcom Friends, Shields played Joey's stalker. This role led directly to her being cast in the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan, in which she starred from 1996 until 2000, and which earned a People's Choice Award in the category of Favorite Female Performer in a New Television Series for her, in 1997, and two Golden Globe nominations.[1]In the early 1980s, she starred in the USPHS PSA sponsored by the American Lung Association as an initiative that VIPs should become examples and advocates of non-smoking.[33] In the mid-1980s, Brooke began her support of the USO by touring with Bob Hope.[34]
In the late 2000s, Shields guest-starred on shows like FX's Nip/Tuck and CBS' Two and a Half Men. In 2005, Shields appeared in a season-two episode of HBO's Entourage, entitled "Blue Balls Lagoon." In 2007, she made a guest appearance on Disney's Hannah Montana, playing Susan Stewart, Miley and Jackson's mother, who died in 2004. In 2008, she returned in the primetime drama Lipstick Jungle. The series ended a year later.[1]
In 2010 and 2012, she made guest appearances on The Middle as the mother of a brood of terror-inducing children and the nemesis of Frankie Heck (played by Patricia Heaton).[35][36] She also appeared as a featured celebrity in NBC's genealogy documentary reality series, Who Do You Think You Are?, where it was revealed that, through her father's ancestry, 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.[37]
Starting in 2013, Shields has been an occasional guest co-host in the 9:00 hour of Today on NBC.
Theatre
Shields has appeared in several Broadway theatre productions, including the musicals Grease (1994 revival) as Betty Rizzo, the 1998 revival of Cabaret (in 2001), the 2003 revival of Wonderful Town (in 2004-2005) and Chicago.[1] She also performed in Chicago in London's West End. She took over the role of Morticia Addams in the Broadway musical The Addams Family on June 28, 2011.[38]Personal life
In the June 2009 issue of Health magazine, Shields related that she lost her virginity at age 22. She said it would have occurred earlier had she had a better self-image.[39]In the mid-1980s while at Princeton, Shields dated classmate Dean Cain.[40] Shields has also been linked to John F. Kennedy Jr,[41] actor Liam Neeson[42] and singer George Michael.[43] She was also a favorite date of Prince Naruhito of Japan.[44] After a romantic interlude with John Travolta, the 16-year-old Brooke Shields dated 18-year-old Mohammed Khashoggi, son of the arms-dealer billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, in Cannes where they first met.[45] At 18, Brooke Shields met Dodi Fayed and they became friends. Shields was 24 years old when she spent the evening with Dodi Fayed in Paris to celebrate his 33rd birthday.[46]
In the 1990s, Shields promoted physical fitness as an extension of femininity, maintaining that femininity and athletics are compatible. Although she was not the only woman doing so, Shields had what was required to promote women's athletics.[47][48]
Shields is also a well-known vegan[49] and an animal rights activist. However, despite coming out against the fur industry in 1989,[50] Shields later went on to create her own mink fur coat at Kopenhagen Fur.[51] She came under the scrutiny of animal rights organizations such as PETA for this visit, which prompted media attention.[52]
Shields has been married twice. From April 19, 1997, to April 9, 1999, she was married to professional tennis player Andre Agassi; the couple had been together since 1993.[53] On April 4, 2001, she married television writer Chris Henchy after they met in 1999 through mutual friends.[54] The couple has two daughters.[55] She is a spokeswoman for Tupperware's Chain of Confidence SMART Girls campaign, a program that teaches girls to nurture their mental and physical well-being.
Postpartum depression
Between April and May 2005, Shields spoke to magazines (such as Guideposts) 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.[56][57] 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 which were brought on by childbirth. Her book, Down Came the Rain, discusses her experience,[58] contributing to a greater public awareness of postpartum depression.[59]In May 2005, Tom Cruise, a Scientologist whose beliefs frown upon psychiatry, condemned Brooke, both personally and professionally, 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 that 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."[60] On August 31, 2006, according to USAToday.com,[61] Cruise privately apologized to Shields for the incident. Shields accepted Cruise's apology, which she said was "heartfelt." Three months later, she and her husband attended the wedding of Cruise and Katie Holmes, in November 2006.
Relationship with Michael Jackson
Brooke Shields spoke at the memorial service for Michael Jackson on July 7, 2009.[62] Shields stated in that speech that she first met Jackson when she was 13 years old, and the two instantly became friends.[63] Shields said:Thinking back to when we met and the many times that we spent together and whenever we were out together, there would be a caption of some kind, and the caption usually said something like 'an odd couple' or 'an unlikely pair,' but to us it was the most natural and easiest of friendships... Michael always knew he could count on me to support him or be his date and that we would have fun no matter where we were. We had a bond... Both of us needed to be adults very early, but when we were together, we were two little kids having fun.[64]In her eulogy, she shared 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 look at her dress, only to discover Taylor asleep in the bed. Shields gave a tearful speech, referring to the many memories she and Jackson shared and briefly joked about his famous sequin glove. She also mentioned Jackson’s favorite song "Smile" by Charlie Chaplin, which was later sung in the memorial service by Jermaine Jackson.[65]
New York Times columnist Gail Collins wrote that "it was a little peculiar hearing Brooke Shields’s weepy testimony about her deep friendship with Jackson given the fact that she told reporters that the last time she saw him was at Elizabeth Taylor’s eighth wedding in 1991."[66] Jackson stated in his 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey that he was dating Shields at the time.[67] Shields has stated that Jackson asked her to marry him numerous times and to adopt a child together.[68][dead link]
Jackson said of Shields in a conversation with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in 2001:
That was one of the loves of my life. I think she loved me as much as I loved her, you know? We dated a lot. We, we went out a lot. Her pictures were all over my wall, my mirror, everything. And I went to the Academy Awards with Diana Ross and this girl walks up to me and says 'Hi, I'm Brooke Shields.' Then she goes, 'Are you going to the after-party?' I go, 'Yeah.' 'Good, I'll see you at the party.' I'm going, 'Oh my God, does she know she's all over my room?' So we go to the after-party. She comes up to me she goes, 'Will you dance with me?' I went, 'Yes. I will dance with you.' Man, we exchanged numbers and I was up all night, singing, spinning around my room, just so happy. It was great.[69]
Filmography
Film
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1974 | After the Fall | Quentin's Daughter | Television movie |
| 1977 | The Prince of Central Park | Kristin | Television movie |
| 1982 | The Doctors | Elizabeth Harrington | Unknown episodes |
| 1984 | Wet Gold | Laura | Television movie |
| 1984 | Blondes vs. Brunettes (TV Special) | Herself | ABC television special |
| 1988 | The Diamond Trap | Tara Holden | Television movie |
| 1992 | Quantum Leap | Vanessa Foster | Episode: "Leaping of the Shrew" |
| 1993 | I Can Make You Love Me | Laura Black | Television movie |
| 1993 | Tales from the Crypt | Norma | Episode: "Came the Dawn" |
| 1994 | An American Love | Greta | Television movie |
| 1995 | Nothing Lasts Forever | Dr. Beth Taft | Television movie |
| 1996 | Friends | Erika Ford | Episode: "The One After the Superbowl:: Part 1" |
| 1996–2000 | Suddenly Susan | Susan Keane | 93 episodes, producer Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy (1997-1998) Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy (1998-1999) |
| 1998 | The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery | Cyndee Lafrance | Television movie |
| 2001 | What Makes a Family | Janine Nielssen | Television movie |
| 2001 | Just Shoot Me! | Erlene Noodleman | Episode: "Erlene and Boo" |
| 2003 | Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids | Miss Spider | Television movie |
| 2003 | Gary the Rat | Cassandra Harrison | Episode: "Future Ex-Wife" |
| 2004 | Gone, But Not Forgotten | Betsy Tannenbaum | Television movie |
| 2004 | I'm with Her | Ivy Tyler | Episode: "Poison Ivy" |
| 2004 | That 70s Show | Pamela Burkhart | 7 episodes |
| 2005 | New Car Smell | April | Television movie |
| 2006 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Kelly Sloane-Raines | Episode: "Siren Call" |
| 2006 | Nip/Tuck | Faith Wolper | 3 episodes |
| 2007 | Two and a Half Men | Danielle Stewert | Episode: "That's Summer Sausage, Not Salami" |
| 2007 | The Batman | Julie | Episode: "Riddler's Revenge" |
| 2007–2009 | Hannah Montana | Susan Stewart | 3 episodes |
| 2008 | Widows | Shirley Heller | Television movie |
| 2008–2009 | Lipstick Jungle | Wendy Healy | 20 episodes |
| 2010–2014 | The Middle | Rita Glossner | 3 episodes |
| 2010 | Who Do You Think You Are? | Herself | Episode: "Brooke Shields" |
| 2013 | Army Wives | Col. Kat Young | Recurring, Season 7 |
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