Birth name: Brooke Christa Shields
Gender: Female
Profession: Actress
Height: 6' (1.83 m)
Trademark: Her eyebrows
Had her marriage to Andre Agassi annulled so she can remarry in the Catholic Church.
While promoting the film Pretty Baby (1978), 12-year old Brooke was asked, "What does good in bed mean?" Brooke cheekily replied; "When I'm sick and stay home from school watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed."Brooke's joking comment on her TV commercials for jeans: "If my jeans could talk, I'd be ruined.""I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood.""I'm always amazed when people assume things about me - that foul language must upset me, or someone's being gay must upset me. They think, 'O-o-oh, she's the most celebrated virgin.' And really, I was surrounded by such an eclectic group of people my whole life.""People think of me as a mannequin, all show and no substance."After 9/11, I am proud to live downtown. There's something slightly defiant about living down here.
Salary Wet Gold (1984) (TV) $500,000 Sahara (1983) $1,500,000 Endless Love (1981) $500,000 Wanda Nevada (1979) $150,000 Just You and Me, Kid (1979) $250,000 King of the Gypsies (1978) $62,500 Pretty Baby (1978) $27,500
Biography from Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia: Former child model (since the age of 1) "discovered" for movies by director Louis Malle, who cast her as a barely pubescent prostitute in his Pretty Baby (1978). Although Malle (and Shields' zealous stage mother, Teri Shields) claimed that Brooke's nude scenes were handled tastefully, a naked 13-year-old was a bit daunting for many fundamentalist and anti-pornography groups, who caused much commotion and generated free publicity with their protests. Shields (whose first movie had actually been 1977's Alice, Sweet Alice worked feverishly over the next couple of years, appearing in King of the Gypsies, Tilt (both 1978), Wanda Nevada, Just You and Me, Kid (both 1979), Endless Love (1981) and, most visibly, in the execrable The Blue Lagoon (1980), a tale of two young children, stranded on a desert island, who discover love and sex (without parental guidance).Although she was by that time one of the biggest celebrities in America, Shields took a four-year sabbatical from pictures to attend Princeton. Her subsequent films have been, for the most part, ghastly, and while Shields is a lovely young woman who tries very hard, she's never become much of an actress. Other credits include Sahara (1984), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984, cameo), Wet Gold (1984 telefilm), Speed Zone! (1989, cameo), Backstreet Dreams (1990), and Brenda Starr (1992, filmed in 1986).
Related Links:
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) - Brooke Shields