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Brooke Shields’s Milestones
Appeared in Richard Avedon's Colgate ads and a campaign for Breck shampoo
Fired her mother as her manager
1966 At 11 months of age, posed in Ivory Snow advertisements photographed by Francesco Scavullo
1968 Became a runway model at age three
1977 Film acting debut, "Communion/Alice Sweet Alice" (filmed in 1976)
1977 TV-movie acting debut, "The Prince of Central Park" (CBS)
1978 Breakthrough film role as a child prostitute in Louis Malle's controversial "Pretty Baby"; appeared nude in several scenes
1979 Co-starred with George Burns in "Just You and Me, Kid"
1979 Had title role in "Wanda Nevada"
1980 - 1993 Appeared in numerous TV specials hosted by Bob Hope
1980 Starred opposite Christopher Atkins in "The Blue Lagoon"
1981 Appeared in a controversial advertising campaign for Calvin Klein jeans
1981 Played the young heroine in Franco Zefferelli's "Endless Love"
1984 Acted in the TV-movie "Wet Gold," a loose remake of "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"
1986 Cast in title role of the comic strip reporter "Brenda Starr"; film not released theatrically until 1992 in the US
1986 Stage acting debut in the Off-Broadway production of "The Eden Cinema"
1988 Headlined the CBS movie "The Diamond Trap"
1992 Appeared in a Los Angeles production of "Love Letters" opposite David Keith
1992 Played a spoiled socialite bride in an episode of the NBC series "Quantum Leap"
1993 Portrayed the title role in the CBS movie "I Can Make You Love Me: The Stalking of Laura Black"
1993 Reprised performance in "Love Letters"; co-starring Martin Hewitt (her leading man in "Endless Love")
1994 Cast as a documentary filmmaker in "Born Wild"; also sang in the film
1994 Starred in the low-budget thriller "The Seventh Floor"
1995 Broadway musical debut as Betty Rizzo in "Grease"; had toured in role prior to her six-month NYC stint
1996 Made memorable guest appearance in a two-part episode of the NBC sitcom "Friends"; played a rabid soap opera fan pursuing actor Joey Tribiani (Matt LeBlanc)
1996 - 2000 TV series debut, the title role of a San Franciscan journalist in the NBC sitcom "Suddenly Susan"; began producing as of the 1998-1999 season
1999 Portrayed a documentary filmmaker married to a gay man (Robert Downey Jr.) in "Black and White"
2000 Played Gena Rowlands' daughter in "The Weekend" (filmed in 1998); screened at the Seattle Film Festival
2001 Acted on stage in the L.A. production of "The Vagina Monologues" (January)
2001 Replaced Gina Gershon as Sally Bowles in Broadway production of "Cabaret"
2002 Co-starred with Rosie Perez and Mercedes Ruehl in the ABC miniseries "Widows"
2004 Cast as Jackie's mom in three episodes in the Fox comedy "That 70's Show"
2004 Replace Donna Murphy in the Tony-winning revival of "Wonderful Town"
2005 Made London stage debut in "Chicago" playing the hard-boiled jailbird Roxie Hart; continued the role as the murderess Roxie Hart on Broadway
2005 Penned the book, Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
2006 Had a recurring role as Christian's therapist in "Nip/Tuck" (FX)
2007 Guest starred on Disney's "Hannah Montana" playing Susan Stewart, Miley and Jackson's mother
2008 Returned to series TV as Wendy, a movie executive in NBC's "Lipstick Jungle"

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Quick Facts

Also known as

Birth Name : Brooke Christa Camille Shields

Born

May, 31 1965 in New York City, New York, USA

Education

  • Lenox School, New York, NY:
  • Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ:
  • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ: 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

Professions

actor, model