What is the net worth of Brooke Shields ?
Brooke Shields is an American actress, model, and former child star who has a net worth of $40 million. That’s a combined net worth with her producer/entrepreneur husband Chris Henchy, and it’s probably a pretty even split between the two. She is probably most famous for appearing in the 1980 film “Blue Lagoon,” but has starred in many films and television shows throughout a career spanning several decades.
Youth
Brooke Christa Shields was born on May 31, 1965 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, the daughter of actress and model Teri Shields and businessman Frank Shields. Her parents divorced when she was five months old and she has two half-brothers and three half-sisters. Growing up, her mother encouraged her to be active in the performing arts, taking piano, ballet and horse riding lessons. Shields attended New Lincoln School and graduated from Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey in 1983.
Early career
Shields began her modeling career in 1966 when she was just 11 months old. The role was for Ivory Soap. he was originally a child model/actress and gained wide attention and acclaim for her starring role in Louis Malle’s controversial film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she played a child prostitute in turn-of-the-century New Orleans 20th. In 1980, Shields, at the age of 14, was the youngest fashion model ever to appear on the cover of Vogue. Later that year, Shields appeared in controversial print and TV ads for Calvin Klein jeans. The TV ad featured her saying the famous catchphrase: “you wanna know what’s going on between me and my Calvins? Nothing”.
He then starred in 1980’s ‘Blue Lagoon’ and later ‘Endless Love’. The MPAA initially rated “Endless Love” with an X rating due to the film’s multiple nude scenes. By the age of 16, she had become one of the most recognizable faces in the country from her dual career as a fashion model and actress. In 1983, Shields abandoned her acting/modeling career to attend Princeton University, where she graduated with a BA in French Literature. Shields published her autobiography, “On Your Own,” in 195. A member of the Princeton Triangle Club and the Cap and Gown Club, her thesis was titled: “Initiation: From Innocence to Experience: The Pre-Adolescent Journey/ adolescence. in the films of Louis Malle, Pretty Baby and Lacombe Lucien”.
Television
Shields was the youngest guest star to appear once on “The Muppet Show” in 1980. Shields was also the youngest person to host the live sketch comedy “SNL” “ABC Fridays” in 1981 After graduating from college, Shields returned. to acting, appearing in minor roles in films and landing the lead role in the sitcom ‘Suddenly Susan’. She was also a producer on the show which ran for four seasons from 1996 to 2000. Shields went on to make appearances on other television shows including “That ’70s Show,” “Lipstick Jungle,” “Saturday Night “. Live” (SNL), “Two and a Half Men” and “Friends”.
She has starred in series such as ‘Nip Tuck’, ‘The Middle’ and ‘When Calls the Heart’. In 2017, he appeared in several episodes of Law & Order: SVU. In 2018, she had a recurring role on “Jane the Virgin” and appeared in 14 episodes. She won the People’s Choice Award for Favorite Young Performer four years in a row from 1981 to 1984.
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Theater
Brooke appeared in several Broadway musicals, including the role of Rizzo in the 1994 revival of “Grease.” In July 2001, she played Sally Bowles in the long-running 1988 revival of Cabaret. Production took four months. In September 2004, Shields starred as Ruth Sherwood in 2003’s Wonderful Town, which also ran for four months and was widely praised.
In 2005, she played Roxie Hart in a long-running production of Chicago in London’s West End at the Adelphi Theatre. She also reprized the role in the Broadway revival, which ran for seven weeks. In June 2011, she starred as Morticia Addams in the Broadway production of The Addams Family.
The legal battle
From 1981 to 1983, Shields and her mother, as well as Garry Gross and Playboy Press, were involved in litigation in New York courts over the rights to their photographs that her mother had signed over to Gross. He was the photographer of a set of controversial images that were taken in 1975 of ten-year-old Shields nude (with her mother’s consent). Because of a strange loophole in New York law, the courts ruled in favor of Gross.
Shields testified before a US congressional inquiry that older doubles were used in nude scenes between teenage lovers on a tropical island in “The Blue Lagoon”.
Philanthropy
Her philanthropic efforts include starring in the USPHS PSA sponsored by the American Lung Association as an initiative to encourage VIPs to become smoking role models and advocates and supporting the USO by touring with Bob Hope. She is the spokesperson for the campaign.
Personal life
Brooke was very close friends with the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, until his death in 2009. She spoke at his memorial service in July 2009. Brooke has been open in the past about her struggles with postpartum depression, which she details . in her. the book “Down Came the Rain”.
In the mid-1980s, while at Princeton, Shields met classmate Dean Cain. Shields has also been romantically linked to John F. Kennedy Jr., actor Liam Neeson and singer George Michael. After a romantic interlude with John Travolta, 16-year-old Brooke Shields met 18-year-old Mohammed Khashoggi, the son of billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, in Cannes, where they met for the first time. She was married twice. She was married to tennis player Andre Agassi from 1997-1999. The couple had been together since 1993. Shields married writer/producer Chris Henchy in 2001. They have two daughters and live in Greenwich Village, New York City.
Chris Henchy is Will Ferrell’s frequent collaborator and producing partner. Henchy co-founded Funny Or Die with Ferrell and two others.
immobility
In 1997, Brooke paid $3.25 million for a home in LA’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood. After moving to New York full-time, Brooke and her husband started renting out this house in LA for $25,000 a month. In New York’s West Village, they paid $5.5 million for a townhouse in 2007. They also own a home in Southampton, which they bought in 2013 for $4.25 million.
