Fancast’s Faces Of Fall: Brooke Shields On Lipstick Jungle

By Quendrith Johnson
Fancast.com

BROOKE SHIELDS
Wendy Healy Lipstick Jungle
Season Premiere Weds., Sept. 24th, 10/9c?
NBC

Age: 43

Hometown: NYC, NY

Where You’ve Seen Her: Suddenly Susan headliner Brooke Shields has been a media creation since her first Ivory Soap commercial through the teen-edge Calvin Klein jean ads, which packed a punch with her early starlet turn in Pretty Baby (Susan Sarandon). Brooke found more nubile raves in Blue Lagoon, Endless Love, and survived her Michael Jackson dating days to reinvent herself on Broadway as Rizzo in GREASE. Then came TV, including her stint as Guest Judge on Bravo’s Project Runway this season. Two kids and a few children’s books later, Brooke Shields is also a spokes-mom who battled both postpartum depression and Tom Cruise.

Why She’s Someone To Watch This Fall: Unlike her contemporaries, Brooke has stayed relatively tabloid-free and usually only takes big risks in her acting choices. Candy Bushnell’s ( Sex and the City ) new take on high-powered New York femmes casts six-foot Shields as towering entertainment executive Wendy Healy. She’s a highly paid role model. Emphasis on ‘model.’ GWW (Gorgeous working woman) with BFFs, why not? Special bonus: another blast from the past, TV icon MTM is set to play Brooke Shields’ noz-fueled mother this season.

Quote: Regarding the show, Brooke said: “The essence of New York is such a big part of (Lipstick Jungle)… I think that’s the added element, making it not just another show about pretty clothes and things like that.” And on Mary Tyler Moore joining the cast? “She’s such an icon. There’s such a level of respect for her talent and her longevity and her — just her humor. And the idea that she was one of the first, not only just in television, but just to represent women in the workforce who didn’t have to negate who they were, or become a man, to be powerful and to be strong. She kind of walks onto the set with all of that and commands a great deal of respect. That’s been sort of the private part of it… So she’s MTM. You gotta get over that fact first, and then she just became my mom.”

Preview: So many ways to see Brooke Shields on Fancast, we lost count. Start here…

PS Brooke Shields doesn’t have an official working fan site, so we’ll hook you up with her NBC link and… did you know Brooke’s writer-husband Chris Henchy is on the “staff” of funny-or-die <a href=Will Ferrell and Director/accomplice Adam McKay’s production company. Imagine the Office run by Will Ferrell? Egads.