Brooke Christa Shields Bio

Brooke Christa Shields was born May 31 in 1965. She was 12 when she was a child model. She won critical acclaim for her performance in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978). She continued to model into her late teens and appeared in a variety of dramas in the 1980s, including The Blue Lagoon (1980), and Franco Zeffirelli's Endless Love (1981).In 1983, Shields put aside her work as a model and enrolled at Princeton University, where she obtained a bachelor's diploma in Romance Languages. Shields was cast in film roles of minor importance and returned to acting in the 1990s. She also appeared on the NBC sitcoms Suddenly Susan (1996-2000), for which she received two Golden Globe nominations, and Lipstick Jungle (2008-2009). In 2017 Shields was back on NBC with a major recurring part in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which is currently in its 19th season. Shields is the voice of Beverly Goodman on Adult Swim's animated series Mr. Pickles, and its spinoff Momma Named Me Sheriff. Brooke Christa Shields was a Manhattan, New York, native born on May 31st of 1965. She is the daughter of Teri Shields, who was a model and actress, and Frank Shields, a businessman (1941-2003). According to William Addams Reitwiesner's research, Shields is related to a number noble families from Italy especially from Genoa as well as Rome. These are namely (in chronological order of descent from 1355 to 1965) the Gattilusi-Palaiologos-Savoy, Grimaldi, Imperiali, Carafa, Doria, Doria-Pamphili-Landi, Chigi-Albani, and Torlonia dynasties. Her paternal grandmother was Italian noblewoman Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi she was the daughter of an Italian prince and an American socialite. Her great-uncle Alessandro Torlonia, an Italian nobleman was husband to Infanta Beatriz in Spain. Teri was paid the sum of money by Frank's family to end the pregnancy.