Cybill Shepherd - Maddie Hayes
Cybill Lynne Shepherd was born on the 18 February 1950 has won a Golden Globe Award and has worked as an actress in TV and film and is a singer and fashion model. Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting, as Cybill Sheridan in her own TV seeries Cybill, as Betsy in Taxi Driver and as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word.
Shepherd won the 1966 "Miss Memphis" contest at age 16, resulting in fashion modeling work through high school and after. She quickly made a name for herself as a curvy 'real woman', which was a departure from the trend at the time of Twiggy-type waifs. This led to regular work as a magazine cover girl, and it was a 1970 Glamour magazine cover that caught the eye of film director Peter Bogdanovich. Upon seeing the cover in a supermarket check-out line, Bogdanovich was reported to have said "That's Jacy", referring to the role he was casting - and ultimately offered to Shepherd - in The Last Picture Show (1971). Shepherd's salary was $5000, a sum she could have earned in a week of modelling, but she was drawn to the story of isolated teenagers and felt it an important one to tell.
During the filming, the then 21-year-old was required to film a nude scene in a pool. And so started an affair with director Bogdanovitch which lasted eight years. Shepherd had an indication that Bogdanovitch was attraced to her when he whispered to her before a scene "I don't know who I'd rather sleep with, you or the character you're playing".
Still photos obtained from Shepherd's nude scene appeared in Playboy magazine without Shepherd's consent. She sued and ultimately she and Playboy reached an out-of-court settlement, setting a precedent regarding public figures. In 1985 Shepherd was cast as Maddie Hayes in ABC's Moonlighting (1985-1989), and this became the role that would define her career. The producers knew that her role depended on having chemistry with her co-star, and she was involved in the selection of Bruce Willis. They quickly became one of the most celebrated television duos. A lighthearted combination of mystery and comedy, the series won Shepherd two Golden Globe awards.
She starred in Chances Are (1989) with Robert Downey Jr. and Ryan O'Neal, receiving excellent reviews. She then reprised her role as Jacy in Texasville (1990), the sequel to The Last Picture Show (1971), as the original cast (including director Peter Bogdanovich) reunited 20 years after filming the original. She also appeared in Woody Allen's Alice (1990), and Once Upon a Crime (1992), as well as several television movies.
In 1997, she won her third Golden Globe award, for CBS' Cybil (1995-1998), a television sitcom, in which the title character - Cybill Sheridan, an actress struggling with hammy parts in B movies and bad soaps - was loosely modeled on herself (including portrayals of her two ex-husbands). As she had on Moonlighting, she was involved in casting another unknown co-star Christine Baranski who proved to be an asset to the show's popularity.
In 2000, Shepherd's bestselling autobiography was published, titled Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think, written in collaboration with Aimee Lee Ball.
She has played Martha Stewart in two TV movies: Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart and Martha: Behind Bars
From 2007, Shepherd has been appearing on the Showtime drama, The L Word as the character Phyllis Kroll. She helped get her real-life daughter Clementine Ford the role of her on screen daughter.
Throughout her career, Shepherd has been an outspoken activist for issues such as gay rights and abortion rights.