Brooke Christa Camille Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress and supermodel. Shields' career as a model began in the mid 1960s as an infant. By the age of 16, Shields had become one of the most recognizable faces in the world because of her dual career as a provocative fashion model and controversial child actress. Shields put her film career on hold to attend Princeton University from 1983 to 1987, graduating with a degree in French literature. nto the mid-1980s, Shields was a resident of Haworth, New Jersey.