Brooke Shields

Age: 44
Height: 6' 0"

Birth Place: New York City, New York, USA
Born: May. 31st, 1965

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Brooke Shields' Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Lipstick Jungle	Wendy Healy
AFI's 100 Years 100 Movies	Brooke Shie…
Suddenly Susan	Susan Keane
100 Greatest Teen Stars	Brooke Shie…
Bob Hope for President	Brooke Shie…

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

"Want to know what gets between me and my Calvins? Nothing". If you hadn't heard of Brooke Shields before, this tag line from her Calvin Klein Jeans ad had to grab your attention.

Not that she hadn't had a previous noteworthy resume. She was born in New York City in 1965 and, at age 12, she starred as a child prostitute in Pretty Baby (1978). Could this movie even be made today? It was considered risky and controversial in 1978. It was followed by another hit, The Blue Lagoon (1980).

Brooke has proved herself to be so much more than her early films. Her broad range of work as an adult would be quite an achievement for anyone, especially given how difficult transitioning from child actor to adult often is.

She has never stopped working, whether it be a Bob Hope (I) Christmas special, her own sitcom "Suddenly Susan" (1996) or as an author. She also managed to work on a degree from Princeton University. She has received a number of awards during her career, most notably The People's Choice award for 1981 through 1984 in the category of Favorite Young Performer. In 1997, she was honored again with The People's Choice award for Favorite Female Performer in a New Television Series in 1997 for her work in "Suddenly Susan" (1996).

In her personal life, she was married in 1997 to tennis player Andre Agassi and was devastated when they divorced two years later. She married for the second time in 2001 to Chris Henchy. She has been open about using fertility treatments to become pregnant with their daughter, Rowan, born in 2003.

When suffering debilitating depression after the birth of her daughter, she made the decision to put her feelings down on paper. Her book, "Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression", takes a hard, honest look at what she and many other women experience after childbirth.

She still lives in New York, and is still sought after for work in movies, television, and on stage. Pretty nice list of achievements for the once Calvin Klein jeans girl.

TRIVIA:

Turned down the 'Andie MacDowell' (qv) role in _Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)_ (qv).
(1996) Chosen as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world by People Magazine.
On 25 February 1997 she and 'Andre Agassi' (qv) filed suit against The National Enquirer claiming it printed "false and fabricated" statements about them and sought damages. The October 8, 1996 Enquirer headline read: "Brooke Shields...Suddenly on Top of the World...Therapy Ends the Nightmare of Pill-Popping, Binge-Eating and Tears;" the October 29 story, headlined "Brooke Wedding Disaster, Agassi Explodes," claimed that Agassi "lashed into" Brooke, Agassi and Teri "tangled like wildcats," Teri demanded a prenup, and Brooke "threatened" to derail the wedding. The case was dismissed.
Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1978" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 30.
Appeared as one of the children in the flashback schoolroom scene in _Annie Hall (1977)_ (qv) though her footage was cut out of the finished film.
She has 3 half sisters: Marina, Cristiana and Olympia. She also has half brothers and a step sister named Diana.
Was friends with musician 'Chuck Berry (I)' (qv) in the 1970s and actor 'Scott Baio' (qv) in the 1980s.
Was considered for the role of Andie Walsh in _Pretty in Pink (1986)_ (qv), but turned down to the part since she was attending at Princeton.