Brooke Shields

Brooke Christa Shields is an American actress, model and former child star. Initially a child model, she gained critical acclaim for her leading role in Louis Malles controversial film Pretty Baby , in which she played a child prostitute in New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century. The role garnered Shields widespread notoriety, and she continued to model into her late teenage years and starred in several dramas in the 1980s, including The Blue Lagoon , and Franco Zeffirellis Endless Love .

Brooke Christa Shields was born in Manhattan, the daughter of Teri and Francis Alexander Shields , a businessman. Through her fathers side, she has Italian, French, Irish, and English roots, along with high social position and relations to nobility. According to research by William Addams Reitwiesner published in 1995, Brooke Shields has ancestral links with a number of noble families from Italy, in particular from Genoa and Rome. These are namely the GattilusiPalaiologosSavoy Grimaldi Imperiali Carafa Doria DoriaPamphiliLandi ChigiAlbani and Torlonia dynasties. Her paternal grandmother was the Italian princess Donna Marina Torlonia . Shields mother was of German, English, ScotsIrish, and Welsh descent. Shields was raised in the Roman Catholic faith.

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