Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Lynne Shepherd ( born February 18, 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA) is an American actress and singer.
Life and career
At 16 she won the Miss Teenage Memphis contest and began a career as a model. In 1971, she dedicated the film director Peter Bogdanovich for the female lead in his patrol The Last Picture Show ( The Last Picture Show ). In 1972 Elaine May comedy The Heartbreak Kid. The success of both films with critics and audiences seemed to Shepherd on the beginning of an equally successful film career to suggest, especially since they had been dating for the filming of Last Picture Show by Peter Bogdanovich and starred in two of his other films, the main role. The drama Daisy Miller (1974) and the musical comedy At Long Last Love (1975 ) with Burt Reynolds fell, however, with the audience through, and in particular Shepherds acting performances reaped almost invariably scathing reviews.
1976 hired Martin Scorsese Shepherd for the comparatively small female lead role in his film Taxi Driver. The worldwide success of this film could not save Cybill Shepherd's career, as in professional circles rumors were spread about their problems in dialogs and with her co-star Robert De Niro. In the aftermath Cybill Shepherd only came in a few, hardly attention-grabbing, movies on.
Her comeback they had in the mid- 1980s with the worldwide hit television series The Moonlighting ( Moonlighting, 1985-1989 ) with Bruce Willis, for which she was twice awarded a Golden Globe Award. She has been known as a renowned television actress. From 1995 to 1998 she had great success with her sitcom Cybill, for which she received another Golden Globe. 2003 and 2005 she starred in two television movies, The Story of Martha Stewart and Martha Behind Bars, the role of the American television personality Martha Stewart. From 2007 to 2009 she played the role of Phyllis Kroll in the U.S. television series The L Word.
Rather little attention was her musical career: 1974 Shepherd released her debut album with Cybill Does it. .. To Cole Porter songs with the legendary composer Cole Porter, produced by Peter Bogdanovich. In the following seven albums she interpreted mainly jazz titles. The last was published in 2004 under the title At Home With Cybill.
Cybill Shepherd has been married twice and has three children. Their daughter Clementine Ford ( born 1979 ) starred in The L Word and her daughter series.