Cybill Shepherd Biography

Fast Facts

• A longtime supporter of gay rights, she was honored by the Human Rights Campaign with a National Ally for Equality award in 2009
• Made her Broadway debut in July of 2012 with Gore Vidal's The Best Man
• Found success in modeling at a young age and began competing in pageants as a teenager
• Quote: "I had the serendipity of modeling during a temporary interlude between Twiggy and Kate Moss, when it was actually okay for women to look as if we ate and enjoyed life․"
• Quote: "I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true․"
• After working on feature films and ad campaigns throughout the '70s, she found her first success on television in 1985's "Moonlighting" alongside the then-unknown, Bruce Willis
• Started modeling after winning Miss Teenage Memphis at the age of 16 and later Model of the Year at 18
• Her name is a combination of her grandfather's name of Cy and her father, Bill
• Once turned down a date with actor Jack Nicholson, who refused to speak to her for several years after the fact
• After being insulted by Marlon Brando at a party, he complimented her butt when she walked away after being offended