Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American actress.

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February 18 - 1950 - Memphis, Tennessee - American

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At age sixteen Cybill Shepherd won the 1966 "Miss Teenage Memphis" contest that landed her modelling work through high school and after. Film director Peter Bogdanovich spotted her on the cover of a magazine and offered her a role in The Last Picture Show (1971), impressed by what he described as her "fresh, sexual threat".

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Film director - Peter Bogdanovich - Magazine - The Last Picture Show

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During the filming, the then 20-year-old began an affair with Bogdanovich but left him in 1972 and went to Las Vegas, where she rekindled a relationship with Elvis Presley that began after an introduction in their hometown of Memphis.

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Las Vegas - Elvis Presley

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Years later, in an interview with E! television, Shepherd spoke of the relationship with Presley, saying, "He was a wonderful lover, very sexy." However, in a candid 2002 interview on Larry King Live, she told King, "the Elvis that I got to know in Memphis was very different than the Elvis that I got to know later, like in Las Vegas. I just noticed that he was unavailable in a way. And then later on, and years, years later, I would read and find out that he had like two other women there at the same time."

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E! television - Larry King Live

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During Shepherd's time with Presley, Bogdanovich continued to pursue her, and when the relationship with Presley ended, the infatuated Bogdanovich gave her the starring role in his 1974 film, Daisy Miller. Based on the Henry Miller novella, the nature of Shepherd's role required a seasoned actress, and both her performance and the film were panned by the critics. It proved to be a box office failure. Unfortunately, before Daisy Miller was released, filming was already underway on At Long Last Love, and the second Bogdanovich production with Shepherd in the lead role proved a major and humiliating disaster that seriously impaired both of their careers.

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Daisy Miller - Henry Miller - Box office - At Long Last Love

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Shepherd received good reviews for her work in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), a role in which she "she appeared like an angel, out of this filthy mass", in the words of Robert De Niro's character. According to Shepherd, Martin Scorsese had requested a "Cybill Shepherd type" for the role. She portrayed an ethereal beauty with whom De Niro's title character becomes enthralled.

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Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver - Robert De Niro

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After a series of less successful roles, including the remake The Lady Vanishes she left show business in 1978 and moved back to Memphis, where she quickly married. Her return to the screen in 1980s The Return was another catastrophe that seemed to spell the end of her acting career.

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The Lady Vanishes - The Return

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After an absence of several years, however, Shepherd auditioned for and won a co-starring role opposite Bruce Willis in the television series, Moonlighting. A lighthearted combination of mystery and comedy, it won Shepherd two Golden Globe awards for her role as "Maddie Hayes" on the popular show. Shepherd married her second husband and then gave birth to twins during the series's run, which helped precipitate its demise.

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Bruce Willis - Television series - Moonlighting - Mystery - Comedy - Golden Globe

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In the 1990s, she won her third Golden Globe award, for CBS' Cybill (1995-1998), a television sitcom, in which the title character -- Cybill Sheridan, an actress struggling with hammy parts in B movies and bad soaps -- was roughly modeled on herself.

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Golden Globe - CBS - Cybill - Sitcom

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In 2000, Shepherd's autobiography was published, titled: Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think. — written in collaboration with Aimee Lee Ball.

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She has played Martha Stewart in two TV movies: Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart (2003) and Martha: Behind Bars (2005).

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Martha Stewart - 2003 - 2005

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