Brooke Christa Camille Shields was born in New Yolrk in 1965 and was only nine years old when she began her career in show business. Her first acting job was in a movie called 'Holy Terror". At the age of just 12 she came to global fame in the Louis Malle classic "Pretty Baby," which won the the Palme D'or Award at the Cannes Film Festival. This was followed up by Franco Zeffirelli's "Blue Lagoon.". Whilst at the height of her fame both as a child actress and as a model, Brooke decided to take time off from the glamorous world of the screen and the catwalk and study a degree in French Literature at Princeton.
On her return to the public eye, Brooke took to the stage rather than film initially and appeared as Rizzo in the acclaimed Broadway production on Grease, in 1994 she won a critics award for her performance in the role.
After her success in the theatre shileds took another unexpected direction in her career when she starred in her own sitcom Suddenly Susan. A part for which she was nominated for the Best Actress in a TV Series/Musical or Comedy, as well receiveing numerous other awards.
Shields is also an author and has written "The Brooke Book," "On Your Own," "Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression," and her first children's book, "Welcome to Your World, Baby."
During the crazy Eighties ring the 1980s and 1990s, Shields was linked romantically with a number of eligable and we now know unlikely John F. Kennedy Jr., Michael Bolton, Prince Albert II of Monaco, but also George Michael and Michael Jackson (she was his date to the 1984 Grammy Awards). In April 1997 she married tennis champion Andre Agassi; their marriage was annulled in 1999 and since April 4, 2001, she has been married to television writer Chris Henchy. They have two daughters: Rowan Frances born in May, 2003 and Grier Hammond born in April 18, 2006.
FILMOGRAHY
Pretty Baby as Violet
King of the Gypsies as Tita
An Almost Perfect Affair uncredited
Tilt as Brenda Louise Davenport
Wanda Nevada as Wanda Nevada
Just You and Me as Kid Kate
The Blue Lagoon as Emmeline
Endless Love as Jade Butterfield
Sahara as Dale
Speed Zone! Stewardess/Herself aka Cannonball Fever
Brenda Starr as Brenda Starr
Backstreet Dreams as Stevie
Running Wild as Christine Shaye aka Born Wild
Freaked as Skye Daley
The Misadventures of Margaret as Lily
The Weekend as Nina
Black and White as Sam Donager
The Bachelor as Buckley Hale-Windsor
After Sex as Kate
Our Italian Husband as Charlene Taylor
The Easter Egg Adventure as the voice of Horrible Harriet Hare
Bob the Butler as Anne Jamieson
Hannah Montana movie as Susan Stewart
National Lampoon's Bag Boy as Mrs. Hart
Justice League: The New Frontier as Carol Ferris (direct-to-DVD release)
Midnight Meat Train as Susan Hoff
Unstable Fables: The Goldilocks and 3 Bears Show as Mama Bear voice in computer-animated film
Hannah Montana: The Movie as Susan Stewart Flashbacks