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Brooke Christa Camille Shields (born May 31, 1965 in New York City, New York, USA) is an American actress. She achieved early fame as a child actress, and by her teens was one of the most photographed and recognized models in the world.

Career

Brooke Shields' career as a model began in the mid 1960's as an infant, and she continued as a successful child model throughout the 1970's. 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, "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins." By the age of 16, Shields had become one of the most recognizable faces in the world due to her dual career as a provocative fashion model and controversial child actress.

Shields' film career began in 1978 with her appearance in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby
(1978), 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 more nude scenes, but 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."

In 1984, She was Michael Jackson's date to the Grammy Awards and also dated him for a brief period.

Shields has played in a number of television productions, the most successful being the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan, in which she starred from 1996 until 2000 earning her a People's Choice Award in the category of Favorite Female Performer in a New Television Series in 1997.

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 episode guest spots on That 70s Show. She playes Mrs. Burkehart, Jackie's (Mila Kunis) mother who later got interested in Donna's (Laura Prepon) father (Don Stark). Shields left That 70s Show when her character left to let Donna's dad and Donno's mother (Tanya Roberts) be together.

Family

Her parents are the late Francis Alexander Shields who married Brooke´s mother, Maria Theresia Schmonn, in 1964. Her paternal grandparents are Francis Xavier Shields, (a tennis star) of Irish decent, and Italian princess Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi, who was a sister of Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi, husband of the Infanta Beatriz of Spain (aunt of King Juan Carlos I of Spain). Their granddaughter Sibilla Weiller (b. 1968), Brooke's second cousin, married in 1994 Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg (b. 1963), the youngest brother of Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

Through her Italian grandmother, Brooke Shields is a descendant of Lucrezia Borgia, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, Honoré I of Monaco and Henry IV of France. Shields is "a 23rd generation descendant of Francesco I Gattilusio, the founder of the Lesbian Gattilusii dynasty," according to the monograph, The Lesbian Ancestors of Prince Rainier of Monaco, Dr. Otto von Habsburg, Brooke Shields, and the Marquis de Sade.

She was married from April 19, 1997 to April 9, 1999 to professional tennis player, Andre Agassi, but their union produced no progeny. Since April 4, 2001 she has been married to TV writer Chris Henchy. They are parents to a daughter, Rowan Francis, born on May 15, 2003 and are expecting their second child, a girl to be named Grier, in the spring of 2006.

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