Brooke Shields coming back in movies
Posted on July 10, 2009
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Model-turned-actress BROOKE SHIELDS is making a return to movie theatres – she’s landed her first major film role in 10 years. The Blue Lagoon star’s acting career has been limited to TV roles in recent years, with appearances in Nip/Tuck, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Two and a Half Men, and the recently axed Lipstick Jungle. But, fresh from her touching tribute to late pal Michael Jackson at his Los Angeles memorial on Tuesday (07Jul09), Shields has scored a part in comedy Furry Vengeance. The movie, in which she’ll play Brendan Fraser’s wife, follows a real estate developer and his troubles with a family of raccoons, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Shields’ last mainstream movie role was in 1999′s Black and White.
Something about her
Name: Brooke Shields
Occupation: Actress, Model
Date of Birth: May 31, 1965
Place of Birth: New York, N.Y., USA
Height: 6′
Sign: Sun in Gemini, Moon in Gemini
Relations:
Father: Frank Shields (Revlon executive);
mother: Teri Shields (former model, manager);
grandfather: Francis X. Shields (tennis champ);
half-sister: Marina Shields;
Dated: John Kennedy Jr., Dean Cain, Liam Neeson
ex-husband: Andre Agassi (professional tennis player,(19 April 1997 Р9 April 1999) (divorced) ); fianc̩: Chris Henchy (TV writer)
Education: Princeton University
Trivia
Had her marriage to Andre Agassi annulled so she can remarry in the Catholic Church.
(25th January 2000) She was stalked by 41 year old Mark Bailey from Los Angeles while he was armed with a handgun over a period of three months (Oct 99 to Jan 00). He was arrested on Jan. 10th 2000 but has pleaded not guilty. The criminal complaint alleged Bailey “did maliciously and repeatedly follow and harass Brooke Shields and made a credible threat with the intent that she be placed in reasonable fear for her safety and the safety of her immediate family.”
Dated Dean Cain while both were attending Princeton University
Added ‘Camille’ to her name at her Communion when she was 10 years old
Nude photos of Brooke, taken by photographer Garry Gross, when Shields was 10, were displayed in Manhattan’s American Fine Arts Gallery, September 10th, 1998. The actress had sued Gross in 1981, tearfully testifying that the pics embarrassed her, but a court decision in 1983 gave Gross the okay to display the photos.
The hardcover version of the novel “Evalore” by Eva Jones has a close-up photo of Brooke on the dust jacket. Copies of the novel with the dust jacket intact are collectables. ISBN 0397012594.
Listed as one of twelve “Promising New Actors of 1978″ in John Willis’ Screen World, Vol. 30.
Started her career in a TV commercial for Ivory soap.
Chosen as Time magazine’s Face of the ’80s.
Princeton graduate in French literature.
Her grandfather was Francis Shields, a professional tennis player.
While filming the Blue Lagoon, she had to have her hair glued to her breasts so nothing would show.
Appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the song “Voices That Care.”
Daughter of Teri Shields
Dated Michael Bolton (II)
Dated Liam Neeson
Dated John Kennedy Jr.
Became engaged to writer/producer boyfriend Chris Henchy on 15 July 2000 whilst on vacation in Mexico.
Has a tattoo of her fiance’s name on her ankle (Chris).
(5 September 2000) New Jersey accountant Mark Ronald Bailey, 42, pleaded no contest to stalking and terrorizing her and was ordered to undergo counseling and psychological evaluations, after prosecutors claimed he sent more than 100 cards and letters to her over the last 15 years, causing her “extreme fear and shock.” The terms of his probation include staying away from her for more than a decade and keeping his distance from “her family, her household members, employees, employers or any of her agents.”
(2000) Chosen as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world by People Magazine.
(1996) Chosen as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world by People Magazine.
(1996) Chosen as one of the most intriguing people of the year by People Magazine.
(1980) Chosen as one of the most intriguing people of the year by People Magazine.
(1978) Chosen as one of the most intriguing people of the year by People Magazine.
Dated Michael Jackson
Appeared on the cover of the 1977 album “Magic is a Child” by the progressive rock group Necktar.
The music group Blondie’s 1978 album “Parallel Lines” contains the song “Pretty Baby,” written about Brooke Shields.
In 1981, the New Jersey-based music group The Jitters released a single titled “All the girls want to look like Brooke Shields,” which was a minor alternative radio hit.
Between the years of 1980 and 1985, she appeared on more than 250 magazine covers internationally.
Her grandmother, Marina Torlonia, was an Italian aristocrat, and through her Brooke can claim descent from Henri IV, King of France, Lucrezia Borgia, and Honore I, Prince of Monaco, among others.
Her great-grandmother, Elsie Moore, was the sister of Glenn Close’s grandfather.
Brooke’s first college choice was Harvard. But mom Teri demanded the school accept Brooke BEFORE she applied for admission. It declined, and Brooke ultimately went to Princeton.
On 2/25/97 she and Agassi filed suit against The National Enquirer claiming it printed “false and fabricated” statements about them and sought damages. The October 8, 1996 Enquirer headline read: “Brooke Shields…Suddenly on Top of the World…Therapy Ends the Nightmare of Pill-Popping, Binge-Eating and Tears;” the October 29 story, headlined “Brooke Wedding Disaster, Agassi Explodes,” claimed that Agassi “lashed into” Brooke, Agassi and Teri “tangled like wildcats,” Teri demanded a prenup, and Brooke “threatened” to derail the wedding. The case was dismissed.
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