Christa Brooke Shields was born on May 31, 1965 . She has worn many
labels -- and not just those designer tags. She, at age 11 months, was
the Most Beautiful Baby in America for Ivory Snow soap advertisements.
By 12, she was a Top Model. At 14 she was a Promising Actress. Last
year she was one of Playboy Magazine's 100 Sexiest Stars of the
Century (she was number 49). She's up for a Worst Actress of the
Century Razzie this year, but she's a People's Choice winner. Oh yes,
and she's a Princeton University grad, with a B.A. in Honours French
Literature.
Shields made her film debut, after years of modelling, at the age of
12 with Alice Sweet Alice. She went on to King of the Gypsies (1978),
"the best acting of her career" with Pretty Baby (1978), Wanda Nevada
(1979), and stardom with The Blue Lagoon (1980). While Shields is not
considered a natural actor, but she has "something" -- it's more than
just a pretty face that keep the roles coming her way non-stop. She
was cast in Endless Love (1981), The Doctors (TV - 1982 -- her first
TV role had been in The Prince of Central Park - 1977), Wet Gold (TV -
1984), Muppet movies (1984 and 1985), Brenda Starr (1986), Quantum
Leap (TV - 1989), Tales From The Crypt (TV - 1989), Backstreet Dreams
(1990), The Diamond Trap (TV - 1992), An American Love (1992), I Can
Make You Love Me: The Stalking of Laura Black (TV - 1993 -- Shields
has been dealing with her own frightening stalker since a teen),
Freaked (1993), The Seventh Floor (1994), Running Wild (1994), Nothing
Lasts Forever (1995), Freeway (1996), Friends (TV - 1996), The Almost
Perfect Bank Robbery (TV - 1996), Scratch the Surface (1997), The
Larry Sanders Show (1997), The Misadventures of Margaret (1998),
Sahara (1998), Speed Zone (1998), and The Bachelor (1999). Those last
few years of work, including many appearances as presenter and host of
various events, were completed while Shields was starring in her own
successful television sitcom, Suddenly Susan (1996). All that doesn't
leave much time for "real" life but the odd thing did crop up in the
news. Off-camera Shields married tennis star Andre Agassi in 1997,
divorcing him in 1999. She successfully sued a British tabloid for
libel in 1998, and tactfully handled the death by suicide of Susan
co-star, David Strickland, in 1999. Shields is author of two books,
The Brooke Book and On Your Own. She has even taken to the stage, in a
Broadway revival of Grease.
Coming up for the performer are the independent films After Sex and
Black and White. She's doing just fine, it seems, for a Worst Actress.
So she's not the most natural of actors. Some of the "somethings" she
does have are charisma, highly photogenic beauty and driving ambition.
It's all working very well.
(Source: celebrity-pictures.nu)