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Christa Brooke Camille Shields |
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Female |
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6' 0" |
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US - United States of America |
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May 31, 1965 |
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New York, NY |
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c/o ICM Artists |
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8942 Wilshire Blvd. |
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Beverly Hills, CA 90211 |
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USA |
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c/o Caberet |
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Studio 54 |
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254 West 54th Street |
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New York, NY 10019-5516 |
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USA |
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Biography |
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Christa Brooke Camille Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress, born in New York City, New York, USA. She attended Princeton University. In age of 11, Shields' career started among much ballyhoo over her appearance in Pretty Baby. Her best-known films are The Blue Lagoon (1980) and Endless Love (1981). Shields' most successful television appearance was being the series Suddenly Susan. She was married from 1997 to 1999 to tennis player, Andre Agassi. Since 2001 she has been married to Christopher Thomas Henchy: they are parents of one daughter born in 2003. She won the People's Choice Award in the category of Favorite Young Performer from 1981 to 1984 and more than a decade later she won again in the category of Favorite Female Performer in a New Television Series in 1997.
Her parents are the late Francis Alexander Shields who married Brooke´s mother, Maria Theresia Schmonin, in 1964. Through her grandmother, Brooke Shields is a descendant of Henri IV, King of France, the Emperor Charles V, Lucrezia Borgia, and Honore I, Prince of Monaco. Her great-grandmother, Elsie Moore, was the sister of Glenn Close's grandfather. Her ancestry is traced in William Addams Reitwiesner's monograph, The Lesbian Ancestors of Prince Rainier of Monaco, Dr. Otto von Habsburg, Brooke Shields, and the Marquis de Sade. She currently stars in "Wonderful Town" on Broadway.
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