Brooke Shields Biography

Birth Name : Brooke Christa Shields

Date of Birth : 31 May 1965, New York City, New York, USA

Nickname : Brookie

Height : 6' (1.83 m)

Occupation : Actress, model

Actress. Born May 31, 1965, in New York City, to Terri and Frank Shields. Her father was a Revlon executive and her mother a model. Shields has been in the public eye from the very beginning, as she appeared in an Ivory Snow advertisement when she was a mere 11 months old.

In 1978, Shields made her film debut in Louis Malle's Pretty Baby and followed it up with high-profile roles in The Blue Lagoon (1980) and Endless Love (1981). Meanwhile, Shields caused a sensation with her advertisements for Calvin Klein jeans, in which she claimed that nothing came between her and her Calvins. Shields also endorsed Breck shampoo, Colgate toothpaste, and Band Aids.

She has never stopped working, whether it be a Bob Hope 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).

As Shields entered her forties, she was hitting her stride in a manner of ways, enjoying guest-starring runs on a couple of popular TV shows such as "That '70s Show" (FOX, 1998-2006) and "Nip/Tuck" (F/X, 2003-). Despite her hardship the first time around, she had another child in 2006, but under less harrowing circumstances, having learned to deal with the mood swings and biochemical changes that accompany pregnancy. In 2008, she landed one of the leads in the TV series "Lipstick Jungle" (NBC, 2008- ), playing a high-powered entertainment executive. The show had a sterling pedigree, with Candace Bushnell, who created the long-running hit "Sex and the City" (HBO, 1998-2004) as one of its executive producers. Unfortunately, it also suffered by comparison, so few could predict how the female-centric drama would perform.