Brooke Shields

Also known as Brooke Christa Camille Shields, Brooke Crista Camille Shields

American actress

AI overview

Brooke Shields is an American actress known for her work in film and television. She matters because she became one of the most recognizable entertainers of her generation, with a career spanning decades in the entertainment industry.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1965
Works: 17

Top works

Down Came the Rain
The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery
Furry Vengeance
Bebekten Sonra
There Was a Little Girl

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Country: US
Active from: 1965-05-31

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 606
Total plays: 3,246

Brooke Christa Camille Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress, author and model.] Some of her better-known movies include Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon, as well as TV shows such as Suddenly Susan, That 70's Show and Lipstick Jungle. She recorded the narration for the Sony/BMG recording of The Runaway Bunny, a Concerto for Violin, Orchestra and Reader, by Glen Roven. It was performed by the Royal Philharmonic and Ittai Shapira. Also has appeared in many on-stage productions <a h

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,929x
Neurotoxic reactive astrocytes are induced by activated microglia
· 2017 · cited 7,164x
Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,658x
<i>Mercury</i>: visualization and analysis of crystal structures
· 2006 · cited 6,398x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
· 2017 · cited 6,172x

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Encyclopedic overview

Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and current president of the Actors' Equity Association. A child model starting at the age of 11 months, Shields gained widespread notoriety 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. 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).

In 1983, Shields suspended her modeling career to attend Princeton University, where she subsequently graduated with a bachelor's degree in Romance languages. In the 1990s, Shields returned to acting and appeared in minor roles in films. She also starred in the NBC sitcoms Suddenly Susan (1996–2000), for which she received two Golden Globe nominations, and Lipstick Jungle (2008–2009).

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