Brooke Shields
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New York, New York, USA
Despite her efforts to be taken seriously as an actress, Brooke Shields has been unable to escape her youth, during which time she found herself in the precarious position of simultaneously being idolized as a late-'70s icon of adolescent wholesome virginal innocence and being constantly photographed in manners verging on the mildly pornographic. Shields' early career was managed and pushed by her mother, Teri Shields, a small-time actress who placed her daughter in front of the camera before she was even one. As the Ivory Snow baby, Shields was once hailed as the "most beautiful baby in America." After spending many years hawking products, she was in such demand that her mother started marketing her under the logo "Brooke Shields & Co." Shields made her feature film debut in Alice Sweet Alice (1976), but did not become a bona fide star until French director Louis Malle cast her as a 12-year-old New Orleans prostitute who becomes the romantic obsession of a much older painter in Pretty Baby (1978). The film was released amidst great controversy because of the scenes in which Shields (or a body double representing her) appeared nude. But while she did participate in some adult scenes, those moments were handled with taste and discretion by Malle and his cinematographer, Sven Nyquist, and the general consensus was that Shields was not exploited in the film. Thus far, her acting in Pretty Baby remains Shields' best. Through her teens, Shields was among the world's top fashion models and her countenance was everywhere. Controversy again stirred when she did some provocative ads for Calvin Kline in which she was seen wearing a too tight pair of jeans and cooed, "Nothing comes between me and my Calvins." This was in contrast to her other ads in which she advised young girls to abstain from sex and a different campaign against smoking. At the peak of her fame, Shields appeared three times on the cover of Life magazine and once on the cover of Time. Her film career picked up around this time with appearances in such venues as King of the Gypsies (1978) and Wanda Nevada (1979), but her best-known film is the so-bad-it's-good The Blue Lagoon (1980) in which she and teenage hunk Christopher Atkins find themselves shipwrecked for years on a desert island. Ostensibly, the film is a tender tale about innocence and true love, but it's primarily a titillating romp filled with plenty of flesh shots of Shields and Atkins' taut, tanned, and partially clad bodies. In 1981, Shields tried her hand with a more serious role in Franco Zeffirelli's tepid teen romance Endless Love, but did not succeed. Shields decided it was time for college and so enrolled in Princeton, where but for the occasional appearance on a Bob Hope television special, made-for-TV movie, or other special event, she immersed herself in college life. While there, she majored in French Literature and also became interested in the theater, gaining experience in two regional productions of Love Letters. Shields graduated from Princeton with honors. Upon her graduation, Shields returned to acting full time and appeared in films that can most kindly be described as mediocre. In 1996, Shields was given her own situation comedy on NBC network's Suddenly Susan, where she played a single career girl struggling to reassemble her life following her breakup with her wealthy fiancé. Though never among the most natural and relaxed of actresses, Shields gradually grew into her role and proved to be a competent, charismatic comedy actress, turning in guest appearances on popular television shows such as That 70s Show, Nip/Tuck, Two and a Half Men, and Hannah Montana after Suddenly Susan went off the air in 2000. Meanwhile, on Broadway, Shields could bee seen in revivals of Grease, Cabaret, and Chicago before taking over the role of Morticia Addams in the Broadway musical version of The Addams Family. In 1997 Shields married tennis great Andre Agassi, but the union only lasted two years and in 200
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | My Boyfriend's Meds (Las pÃldoras de mI novio) |
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— | 2020 |
60% | Daisy Winters |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Flower Shop Mysteries |
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— | 2016 |
97% | Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Flower Shop Mysteries |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | When the Bough Breaks: A Documentary About Postpartum Depression |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | Adventure Planet |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Under Wraps |
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— | 2014 |
36% | The Hot Flashes |
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— | 2013 |
No Score Yet | Wild Horses |
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— | 2013 |
13% | The Greening Of Whitney Brown |
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— | 2011 |
77% | Chalet Girl |
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$1.7k | 2011 |
No Score Yet | The Boy Who Cried Werewolf |
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— | 2010 |
78% | The Other Guys |
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$119.3M | 2010 |
7% | Furry Vengeance |
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$17.6M | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Michael Jackson: The Life and Times of the King of Pop |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Unstable Fables: Goldilocks and the 3 Bears |
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— | 2008 |
73% | The Midnight Meat Train |
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$34.9k | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Justice League: The New Frontier |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Goldilocks and the 3 Bears Show |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Rapunzel |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | The Ugly Duckling |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | National Lampoon's Bag Boy |
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— | 2007 |
65% | The Outsider |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Our Italian Husband |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Gone But Not Forgotten |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Bob the Butler |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | The Easter Egg Adventure |
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— | 2004 |
87% | Mayor of the Sunset Strip |
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— | 2004 |
39% | Black and White |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Widows |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | What Makes a Family |
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— | 2001 |
50% | The Weekend |
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— | 2000 |
9% | The Bachelor |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | After Sex |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Misadventures of Margaret |
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— | 1998 |
No Score Yet | Scratch the Surface |
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— | 1997 |
77% | Freeway |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Sidney Sheldon's 'Nothing Lasts Forever' |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | The Seventh Floor |
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— | 1994 |
50% | Freaked |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | I Can Make You Love Me |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Brenda Starr |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Running Wild |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Backstreet Dreams |
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— | 1990 |
0% | Speed Zone |
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— | 1989 |
No Score Yet | The Diamond Trap |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Monsters and Maniacs |
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— | 1988 |
No Score Yet | Wet Gold |
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— | 1984 |
83% | The Muppets Take Manhattan |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Sahara |
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— | 1984 |
28% | Endless Love |
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— | 1981 |
8% | The Blue Lagoon |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Just You and Me, Kid |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Wanda Nevada |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | An Almost Perfect Affair |
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— | 1979 |
No Score Yet | Tilt |
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— | 1979 |
75% | King of the Gypsies |
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— | 1978 |
71% | Pretty Baby |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | The Prince of Central Park |
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— | 1977 |
83% | Alice, Sweet Alice (Communion) |
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— | 1976 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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100% |
Jane the Virgin
2014-2019
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The Talk
2010
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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No Score Yet |
The Middle
2009-2018
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No Score Yet |
Cash Cab
2017-2018
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No Score Yet |
Nightcap
2016-2017
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No Score Yet |
Today
2017-2019
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No Score Yet |
Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen
2009
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75% |
Scream Queens
2015-2016
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No Score Yet |
When Calls the Heart
2014-2019
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No Score Yet |
The Chew
2011-2018
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No Score Yet |
The Wendy Williams Show
2008-2020
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
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No Score Yet |
Army Wives
2007-2014
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32% |
Super Fun Night
2013-2014
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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No Score Yet |
Charlie Rose
2013-2017
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
2009-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Nate Berkus Show
2010-2013
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No Score Yet |
Chelsea Lately
2007-2014
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100% |
Funny Or Die Presents
2010-2011
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Graham Norton Show
2007
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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No Score Yet |
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010-2018
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No Score Yet |
The Bonnie Hunt Show
2008-2010
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No Score Yet |
Hannah Montana
2006-2011
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19% |
Lipstick Jungle
2008-2009
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No Score Yet |
Project Runway
2004-2020
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No Score Yet |
Rachael Ray
2006
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65% |
Two and a Half Men
2003-2015
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-2011
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75% |
Nip/Tuck
2003-2009
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66% |
Entourage
2004-2011
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58% |
I'm With Her
2003-2004
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No Score Yet |
That '70s Show
1998-2006
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No Score Yet |
Just Shoot Me
1997-2003
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No Score Yet |
Suddenly Susan
1996-2000
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100% |
The Larry Sanders Show
1992-1998
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82% |
Tales from the Crypt
1989-1996
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85% |
The Simpsons
1989
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No Score Yet |
Quantum Leap
1989-1993
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100% |
The Muppet Show
1976-1981
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Quotes from Brooke Shields' Characters
Wanda Nevada: | Everybody knows there ain't no gold in the Grand Canyon. |
Richard: | Take it back! Take back what you said! |
Emmeline: | I've seen it all! What happens after you've been doing it in a long time? |
Richard: | Shut up! That's not fair peeking! I don't peek on you! |
Emmeline: | That's a lie! You're always staring at my buppies. |
Richard: | Only because they look so funny! You know what you look like now, Em? You look like one of those pictures that Paddy had in his drawer. One of his hootchie-cootchie girls! |
Emmeline: | (imitating Richard) It doesn't scare them off unless I can spear them! |
Emmeline: | (throws an umbrella that acted as the spear) |
Richard: | Aw, spear you! |
Richard: | What are you LOOKING at? |
Emmeline: | Your muscles. |
Richard: | What about them? You're really acting silly lately, Em. Always saying DUMB things like that. Always LOOKING at me funny! You're not coming down with something, are you? Don't give it to me. |
Richard: | There's so many things I don't understand, like why do the fish stop swimming and lie on top of the tide pools after the heavy rain? Why do you hear the waves inside the big shells? Why are all these funny hairs growing on me? I wish a big book with the answers to every question in the world would drop out of the sky and land in my hands right now. I'd read it till I knew everything. |
Emmeline: | Oh, Richard, you can't know everything. Only God knows everything. |
Richard: | God - He can't find us any better than Santa Claus. |
Richard: | I have a funny feeling in my stomach. |
Emmeline: | Me too. |
Richard: | My heart is beating so fast. |
Emmeline: | Mine too. |
Richard: | (while eating fruit) Kiss me. |
Richard: | Kiss me. |
Emmeline: | You're all sticky! |
Richard: | So what? Kiss me! |
Emmeline: | (kisses Richard, but Richard won't let her go) Stop! I can't breathe! |
Emmeline: | Stop! I can't breathe! |
Richard: | But I don't wanna stop. |
Jade: | You know what I keep thinking about? A night in the house. I was a little girl, and then I saw David all alone. And I don't know. I just... I wanted to go to him. Was that wrong? I wasn't a happy little girl anymore. Something changed. The first time in my life I was me. |
Anne: | Life goes on. We change. |
Jade: | But it hurts. It hurts so much. |
Anne: | Oh, Baby, it all happened so fast for you. When you live a lifetime you'll understand it. |
Jade: | But he loved me. He loves me! No one will ever love me as much. |
Anne: | Many people will love you. You see. |
Jade: | But not like that. Not like David. |
Jade: | It was a once in a lifetime thing, David. I know that! And it came in a time when we were too young to handle it. That was the terrible part. |
David: | I'll never stop loving you |
Jade: | You can't say that. You don't know. |
David: | Yes I do. I knew that from the very first. I'll never stop loving you. Never wanna. You're all I care about! And me. The person I am when I'm with you. |
Jade: | What would you do if I died? |
David: | I'd die... I'd die too. |
Emmeline: | I see you playing with it |
Emmeline: | I see you playing with it. |
Violet: | I know what to do.Leave me alone. |
Violet: | I know what to do. Leave me alone. |