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Brooke Shields
Brooke Christa Shields is an American actress and current president of the Actors' Equity Association. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, Shields gained widespread notoriety for her leading role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she appeared in nude scenes shot when she was 11 years old. She continued to model into her late teenage years and starred in several dramas…
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entertainment · American actress (born 1965) · television actor · film actor · model · stage actor · children's writer · writer · film director · child actor · nude model · actor · also Brooke Shields, Brooke Christa Camille Shields, Brooke Crista Camille Shields, Shields
Born 31 May 1965 · Q189400
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Published Brooke Shields is not Allowed to Get Old about aging as a woman
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2024· 2 entries
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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Dollars), plus six percent of the profits
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2019· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Playboy published nude photographs of 10-year-old actress Brooke Shields.” True.
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2017· 1 entry
Shields returned to NBC with a major recurring role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in the show's 19th season
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2013· 1 entry
Shields has been an occasional guest co-host in the 9:00 hour of Today on NBC
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2010· 1 entry
Made guest appearances on The Middle as the mother of a brood of terror-inducing children and the nemesis of Frankie Heck (Patricia Heaton)
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2009· 1 entry
Shields spoke at the memorial service for Michael Jackson
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2008· 1 entry
Returned in the prime time drama Lipstick Jungle
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2007· 1 entry
Made a guest appearance on Disney's Hannah Montana, playing Susan Stewart, protagonist Miley Stewart's (Miley Cyrus) mother, who died in 2004
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2006· 2 entries
According to USA Today, Cruise apologized in person to Shields for the incident; she accepted the apology, saying it was "heartfelt"
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Penned the memoir 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 Sh
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2005· 6 entries
In which she made an individual case for the medication and stated: "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
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“Brooke Shields deixou escapar que perdeu a virgindade aos 22 anos”
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Prince released a work titled Spiritual America IV
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Shields appeared in a second-season episode of HBO's Entourage, entitled "Blue Balls Lagoon"
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“quando grávida do primeiro filho”
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“sobre a depressão pós-parto com o nascimento da filha”
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2004· 1 entry
Shields made several recurring guest appearances on That '70s Show playing Pam Burkhart, Jackie's (Mila Kunis) mother, who later was briefly involved with Donna's (Laura Prepon) father (Don Stark)
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2001· 1 entry
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
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1999· 1 entry
Met television writer Chris Henchy through common friends
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1998· 1 entry
Played a lesbian, Lily, in The Misadventures of Margaret
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Theatre World Special Award (1995).
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1993· 3 entries
Shields made a guest appearance in a fourth-season episode of The Simpsons, called "The Front"
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It was lambasted by critics and bombed at the box office
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Began a relationship with Andre Agassi; the couple married in 1997 and divorced in 1999
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1990· 2 entries
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actress for Speed Zone! (1990).
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Purchased a ranch near Big Timber, Montana
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1989· 1 entry
Shields later went on to create her own mink fur coat at Kopenhagen Fur
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1986· 1 entry
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 Shields' mother that she receive top-billing in the picture, which co-starred Timothy Dalto
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1985· 1 entry
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor - Razzie Award for Sahara (1985).
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1983· 3 entries
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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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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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 Shields standing naked in a bathtub
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1981· 2 entries
Won Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress for The Blue Lagoon (1981).
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Capitalizing on Shields's rising fame at the time
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1980· 1 entry
14-year-old Shields was the youngest fashion model ever to appear on the cover of Vogue
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1975· 1 entry
Of a then ten-year-old Brooke Shields with the consent of her mother, Teri Shields, for the Playboy Press publication Sugar 'n' Spice
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1974· 1 entry
“She is a professional child and unique. She looks like an adult and thinks like one.”
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1965· 2 entries
Born 1965-05-31.
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The daughter of actress and model Teri Shields (née Schmon) and businessman Francis Alexander Shields
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