Brooke Shields Biography And Filmography:

Through associations of her mother, Brooke Shields landed her first certified modeling job before her second birthday when Brooke was chosen to pose for advertisements for Ivory Snow. Within two years, the young child was a professional on the runways and was featured as a Breck Girl and in Colgate television commercial. With her wide eyebrows, sensual lips, radiant hair and intense eyes, Brooke Shields projected the image of a Lolita while off-screen she was a conservative Catholic girl. When Shileds was cast for the title role of a child prostitute in "Pretty Baby" (1978), a film inspired by the life of photographer E.J. Bellocq, Shields became entangled in debate, partly over the explicit sexuality of her role, and partly for her innocent nude scenes.

Brooke Shields tried to show a more wholesome personality co-starring with George Burns in "Just You and Me, Kid" (1979) and was featured in numerous television variety specials headlined by veteran comic Bob Hope. Yet Brooke reverted to young teen sex for the 1980 remake of "The Blue Lagoon" and then the dramatic adaptation of "Endless Love" (1981). By the time Shields enrolled at Princeton in 1983, she was considered more of a personality than an actress and the few movies she made during her college years ("Sahara" 1984; "Brenda Starr" (1989) just confirmed that belief. Brooke Shields was equally famous for a chapter in a 1984 book she penned ("On Your Own") in which she extolled the virtues of remaining a virgin.

As the 1990s began, Shields worked hard to dismiss those images. She portrayed a stalking victim in the 1993 CBS television movie "I Can Make You Love Me: The Stalking of Laura Black" and surprised many with her Broadway musical debut as bad young teen girl Betty Rizzo in a revival of "Grease" in 1995. A guest role as a fanatical soap opera fan on a two-part episode of "Friends" stirred many to her skills as a comedienne and Shields soon was fielding offers for television sitcoms. Brook portrayed a San Franciscan journalist coping as a single woman in the NBC series "Suddenly Susan" (1996-2000) a funny comedy about a guy named Jack owns a fashion magazine and is the former brother-in-law of Susan. After she runs out on her fiancé on their wedding day, Jack agrees to take her back at the magazine. 

Shields then gave a nice role as a stuck-up socialite at first willing to marry Chris O'Donnell until she learns of the terms in "The Bachelor" (1999) with Renee Zellweger, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Esposito. Brooke was also cast as a documentary filmmaker following a group of white urban kids enthralled by hip-hop culture in James Toback's messy and uneven "Black and White" (1999) with Claudia Shiffer and Robert Downey Jr..

In "The Weekend" (2000), she was cast as a daughter who continuously disappoints her overly critical mother (Gena Rowlands) while the 2001 Lifetime TV movie "What Makes a Family" gave her a great role as a lesbian single parent. Shields was next seen in a pair of miniseries: "Widows" (ABC, 2002) as the low-rent actress Shirley, one of the widows of three men killed while trying to steal a famous painting who join forces to find their husband's killers and finish off the job of stealing the painting; and "Gone But Not Forgotten" (2004), as a lawyer who defends a entrepreneur accused of being a serial killer. She also enjoyed a recurring role as the vain Pamela Burkhart, mother of Mila Kunis' character Jackie on the popular Fox sitcom "That 70s Show" beginning in 2004. 

In 2005, Shields released her memoir "Down Came the Rain", the story of her struggles with post-partum depression, including becoming dependant on anti-depressant Paxil, following the birth of her daughter Rowan in 2003. The set off an unusual public war of words with her one-time "Endless Love" costar Tom Cruise, who in an interview with "Access Hollywood" criticized Shields' use of medication, in line with the teachings of the Church of Scientology, he suggested that "vitamins" would have been an adequate cure, and took a jab at the state of her career. Shields shot back, calling his comments "dangerous" and suggested that people shouldn't take advice from someone who devotes his life to a worship of aliens.

Following a 2001 Los Angeles show in the "Vagina Monologues" Shields was hired to play Sally Bowls in "Cabaret" with Broadway's Roundabout Theatre Company that same year. In 2003 Shields appeared, while pregnant, in the off-Broadway production of "The Exonerated", a play based on interviews with death row inmates. Brooke Shields next starred as Ruth Sherwood in the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of "Wonderful Town" at the Martin Beck Theatre in 2004 and made her London stage debut playing Roxie Hart in the West End production of "Chicago" in 2005, then returning to Broadway in the same later that year.

Brooke has also had several guest appearance roles on popular television comedies such as, "That '70s Show", "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", "Nip/Tuck", "Two and a Half Men", "The Batman", "Hannah Montana" with Miley Cyrus. Starting in 2008, Brooke has starred in the television comedy "Lipstick Jungle" (2008-), a look at the lives of Nico, Wendy, and Victory -- three of "New York's 50 Most Powerful Women," according to The New York Post. 

She then lent her voice talents to the animated fantasy film based on the DC comic book "Justice League: The New Frontier" (2008), set in the 1950s, a new generation of superheroes must join forces with the community's active veterans and a hostile US government to fight a menace to Earth. Shields also appeared in the comedy "Bag Boy" (2008) about a teenager who enters the competitive world of grocery store bagging.

Brooke then was cast and hired in the mystery thriller "The Midnight Meat Train" about a New York photographer who hunts down a serial killer. Based on Clive Barker's short story "Midnight Meat Train". The actress wrapped up the year with a role in another animates comedy "Unstable Fables: Goldilocks & 3 Bears Show" (2009) with Jamie Lynn Spears as the voice of Goldilocks.

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