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https://lebeauleblog.com/2018/05/31/...rooke-shields/

Brooke Shields is turning 53 today. She was thrust into celebrity as a child, known as a model for work like her famous Calvin Klein ad, and as an actress for her controversial role as a child prostitute in Pretty Baby. As a teenager, Shields starred in films like The Blue Lagoon and Endless Love, and became the youngest ever guest-star on The Muppet Show. She took a few years off from her screen career to attend Princeton; when she returned to the screen in the late 1980s, the dismal failure of Brenda Starr probably ended any chance she had of becoming a major film star.

Up until the mid-nineties, the biggest “honors” Shields had received in her career were a trio of Razzies from the 1980s. However, she made a comeback when she starred on NBC’s Suddenly Susan as Susan Keane. The show ran for four seasons, and during its run Shields received a pair of Golden Globe nominations.


Shields has worked worked steadily for the past two decades, although aside from starring on the single season of NBC’s Lipstick Jungle, she’s been doing guest appearances. She has had notable recurring roles on That ’70s Show and The Middle, and last year began appearing in another on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She has developed a nice stage career, mostly in musical theater: she made her Broadway debut in the mid-1990s revival of Grease, as a replacement in the role of Betty Rizzo, and also appeared as Roxie Hart in Chicago and as Ruth Sherwood in the 2003 revival of Wonderful Town (replacing Donna Murphy).