Shields' career as a model began in the mid 1960s as an infant. Her first job was for Ivory soap shot by Francesco Scavullo. She continued as a successful child model, with model agent Eileen Ford, in her Lifetime Network biography, stating that she started her children's division just for Brooke. In early 1980 (at age 14), Shields was the youngest fashion model to ever appear on the cover of the Read more...

Shields was born in New York City into a well-known American society family with links to Italian nobility. Her paternal grandmother was Marina Torlonia (1916-1960), daughter of the Italian 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesi, an Italian aristocrat, and through him Brooke can claim descent from Henri IV, King of France, Lucrezia Borgia,Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Honore I, Prince of Monaco, among Read more...

Brooke Christa Camille Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and supermodel.