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Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, [2] Shields gained widespread notoriety at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she appeared in nude scenes shot when she was 11 years old. [3]
American actress Brooke Christa Shields started her career as a child model and gained critical acclaim at age 12 for her leading role in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978). She continued to model into her late teenage years and starred in several dramas in the 1980s, including The Blue Lagoon (1980) and Franco Zeffirelli 's Endless Love (1981).
When Brooke was a child, they lived in a townhouse on the Upper East Side. [5] She acted alongside her daughter in Wanda Nevada, Endless Love, and Backstreet Dreams. [6] In 2009, Brooke announced that her mother was suffering from dementia. [7] On October 31, 2012, Shields died at age 79 following a long illness related to dementia. [8]
Brooke Shields Talks Beauty, Business, Growing Up in Public and the Power of Vulnerability at SXSW: ‘I Am Woman, Hear Me More’ Cynthia Littleton March 16, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Brooke Shields, 58, opens up about “middle age” and “sag” while announcing that she is writing a nonfiction book about aging.
The first half of “Pretty Baby” is a kind of biography-meets-empathetic-essay that lets us touch the alienation Shields felt as her image became something in the world that was, more than once ...
Francis Alexander Shields Jr. (May 16, 1941 – April 25, 2003) was an American businessman and an executive at Revlon in New York City. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was the father of actress Brooke Shields . [ 3 ]
Brooke Shields said her age group is “overlooked” at the Forbes Power Women’s Summit, but she finds aging empowering. "We have so much to offer,” she said.