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Shields began her television career at an early age.

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In 1980, she was the youngest guest star to ever appear on The Muppet Show, in which she and the Muppets put on their own version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

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She was also the youngest person to host ABC's Fridays, a Saturday Night Live-like sketch comedy show, in 1981.

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In one episode of the popular comedy sitcom Friends, Shields played Joey's stalker.

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This role led directly to her being cast in the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan, in which she starred from 1996 until 2000, and which earned a People's Choice Award in the category of Favorite Female Performer in a New Television Series for her, in 1997, and two Golden Globe nominations.

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In the early 1980s, she starred in the USPHS PSA sponsored by the American Lung Association as an initiative that VIPs should become examples and advocates of non-smoking.

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In the mid-1980s, Brooke began her support of the USO by touring with Bob Hope.

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Shields made a couple of guest appearances on That '70s Show.

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She played Pam Burkhart, Jackie's (Mila Kunis) mother, who later was briefly involved with Donna's (Laura Prepon) father (played by Don Stark).

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Shields left That '70s Show when her character was written out.

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Shields recorded the narration for the Sony/BMG recording of The Runaway Bunny, a concerto for violin, orchestra, and reader, by Glen Roven.

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It was performed by the Royal Philharmonic and Ittai Shapira.

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In 1993, she made a guest appearance in a Season 4 episode of The Simpsons, called "The Front.

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"In the late 2000s, Shields guest-starred on shows like FX's Nip/Tuck and CBS' Two and a Half Men.

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In 2005, Shields appeared in a season-two episode of HBO's Entourage, entitled "Blue Balls Lagoon."

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In 2007, she made a guest appearance on Disney's Hannah Montana, playing Susan Stewart, Miley and Jackson's mother, who died in 2004.

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In 2008, she returned in the primetime drama Lipstick Jungle.

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The series ended a year later.

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Starting in 2010, she made guest appearances on The Middle as the mother of a brood of terror-inducing children and the nemesis of Frankie Heck (played by Patricia Heaton).

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She also appeared as a featured celebrity in NBC's genealogy documentary reality series, Who Do You Think You Are?, where it was revealed that, through her father's ancestry, she is the distant cousin (many generations removed) of King Louis XIV of France, and thus a descendant of both Saint Louis and Henry IV of France.

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Starting in 2013, Shields has been an occasional guest co-host in the 9:00 hour of Today on NBC.

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She also recurred during Season Nineteen of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Sheila Porter, the grandmother of Olivia Benson's adopted son, Noah Porter.

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Shields has appeared in several Broadway musical theater productions.

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She played Rizzo in the 1994 revival of Grease.

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For four months, beginning July 2001, she played Sally Bowles in the long-running 1998 revival of Cabaret.

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In September 2004, Shields replaced Donna Murphy in the role of Ruth Sherwood in the 2003 revival of Wonderful Town until the show closed four months later.

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Her performance was widely praised.

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Ben Brantley of The New York Times praised the "goofy sweetness" she brought to her interpretation of the role, but wrote that she fell short of Donna Murphy's "perfection.

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"In April 2005, Shields played Roxie Hart in a long-running production of Chicago at the Adelphi Theatre in London's West End.

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Later the same year, she reprised the role in the Broadway revival, from September 9 to October 30.

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This made her the first performer to have starred in Chicago, Cabaret, and Grease on Broadway, three long-running revivals noted for "stunt casting" of celebrities not known for musical theatre.

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She took over the role of Morticia Addams in the Broadway musical The Addams Family on June 28, 2011.

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As a child, she lived with her mother on the Upper East Side.

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In the June 2009 issue of Health magazine, Shields related that she lost her virginity at age 22 to actor Dean Cain while they were dating at Princeton.

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She said it would have occurred earlier had she had a better self-image.

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In the 1990s, Shields promoted physical fitness as an extension of femininity, maintaining that femininity and athletics are compatible.

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Shields is a veganand an animal rights activist.

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However, despite coming out against the fur industry in 1989,Shields later went on to create her own mink fur coat at Kopenhagen Fur.

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Shields has been married twice.

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From 1997 to 1999, she was married to tennis player Andre Agassi; the couple had been together since 1993.

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Following her divorce from Agassi, she married television writer Chris Henchy in 2001, after they had met through mutual friends in 1999.

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They have two daughtersand live in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City.

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She is a spokeswoman for Tupperware's Chain of Confidence SMART Girls campaign, a program that teaches girls to nurture their mental and physical well-being.

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Between April and May 2005, Shields spoke to magazines (such as Guideposts) and appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to publicize her battle with postpartum depression, an experience that included depression, thoughts of suicide, an inability to respond to her baby's needs and delayed maternal bonding.

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Her book, Down Came the Rain, discusses her experience,contributing to a greater public awareness of postpartum depression.

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In May 2005, actor Tom Cruise—a Scientologist whose beliefs frown upon psychiatry—condemned Shields, both personally and professionally, for using and speaking in favor of the antidepressant drug Paxil.

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As Cruise said, "Here is a woman and I care about Brooke Shields, because I think she is an incredibly talented woman, you look at , where has her career gone?"

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Shields responded that Cruise's remarks on antidepressants were "irresponsible" and "dangerous".

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She also argued that he should "stick to fighting aliens" (a reference to Cruise's role in War of the Worlds as well as some of the more esoteric aspects of Scientology doctrine and teachings), "and let mothers decide the best way to treat postpartum depression."

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Shields responded to a further attack by Cruise with an op-ed titled "War of Words", published in The New York Times on July 1, 2005, in which she made an individual case for the medication and stated: "In a strange way, it was comforting to me when my obstetrician told me that my feelings of extreme despair and my suicidal thoughts were directly tied to a biochemical shift in my body.

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Once we admit that postpartum is a serious medical condition, then the treatment becomes more available and socially acceptable.

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With a doctor's care, I have since tapered off the medication but, without it, I wouldn't have become the loving parent I am today.

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"On August 31, 2006, according to USA Today,Cruise apologized in person to Shields for the incident; she accepted the apology, saying it was "heartfelt".

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That November, she and her husband attended Cruise's wedding to Katie Holmes.

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On July 7, 2009, Shields spoke at the memorial service for Michael Jackson.

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She stated in that speech that she first met Jackson when she was 13 years old, and the two instantly became friends.

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Shields said: Thinking back to when we met and the many times that we spent together and whenever we were out together, there would be a caption of some kind, and the caption usually said something like 'an odd couple' or 'an unlikely pair,' but to us it was the most natural and easiest of friendships... Michael always knew he could count on me to support him or be his date and that we would have fun no matter where we were.

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We had a bond...

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Both of us needed to be adults very early, but when we were together, we were two little kids having fun.

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In her eulogy, she shared anecdotes, including an occasion in which she was his date for one of Elizabeth Taylor's weddings, and the pair sneaked into Taylor's room to get the first look at her dress, only to discover Taylor asleep in the bed.

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Shields gave a tearful speech, referring to the many memories she and Jackson shared and briefly joked about his famous sequin glove.

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She also mentioned Jackson's favorite song "Smile" by Charlie Chaplin, which was later sung in the memorial service by Jermaine Jackson.

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Jackson stated in his 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey that he was dating Shields at the time.

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Shields has stated that Jackson asked her to marry him numerous times and to adopt a child together.

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In a conversation with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in 2001, Jackson said of Shields: That was one of the loves of my life.

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I think she loved me as much as I loved her, you know?

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We dated a lot.

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We, we went out a lot.

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Her pictures were all over my wall, my mirror, everything.

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And I went to the Academy Awards with Diana Ross and this girl walks up to me and says 'Hi, I'm Brooke Shields.'

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Then she goes, 'Are you going to the after-party?'

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I go, 'Yeah.'

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'Good, I'll see you at the party.'

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I'm going, 'Oh my God, does she know she's all over my room?'

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So we go to the after-party.

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She comes up to me she goes, 'Will you dance with me?'

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I went, 'Yes.

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I will dance with you.'

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Man, we exchanged numbers and I was up all night, singing, spinning around my room, just so happy.

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It was great.

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Nancy Patricia Pelosi (/pəˈloʊsi/; née D'Alesandro; born March 26, 1940) is an American politician serving as speaker of the United States House of Representatives since 2019, and previously from 2007 to 2011.

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She has served as a U.S. representative from California since 1987.

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A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi is the only woman in U.S. history to serve as speaker of the House.

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Currently in her 18th term, Pelosi was first elected to Congress in a 1987 special election, following her father, Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., into politics.

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D'Alesandro had served as a U.S. representative from Maryland and mayor of Baltimore.

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Pelosi is the dean of California's congressional delegation.

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She represents California's 12th congressional district, which comprises four-fifths of the city and county of San Francisco.

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Initially, Pelosi represented the 5th district (1987–1993); after district boundaries were redrawn following the 1990 census, she represented the 8th district (1993–2013).

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Pelosi has led the House Democrats since 2003.

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She is the first woman to lead a party in Congress, and has served twice as House Minority Leader (2003–2007 and 2011–2019) and as House Speaker (2007–2011 and since 2019), respectively.

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Pelosi was a major opponent of the Iraq War as well as the Bush administration's 2005 attempt to partially privatize Social Security.

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During her first speakership, she was instrumental in the passage of many of the Obama administration's landmark bills, including the Affordable Care Act, the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and the 2010 Tax Relief Act.

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Pelosi lost the speakership in 2011 after the Republican Party won a majority in the House of Representatives in the 2010 elections, but retained her role as leader of the House Democratic Caucus and returned to the role of House minority leader.

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In the 2018 midterm elections, the Democrats regained control of the House.

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When the 116th Congress convened on January 3, 2019, Pelosi was again elected Speaker,becoming the first former Speaker to return to the post since Sam Rayburn in 1955.

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Under Pelosi's leadership, the House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump, first on December 18, 2019, and again on January 13, 2021; Trump was acquitted both times by the Senate.

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On January 3, 2021, Pelosi was reelected to a fourth term as speaker of the House.

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During her second speakership, she was instrumental in the passage of the Biden administration's two major bills, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the American Rescue Plan Act.

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She announced in January 2022 that she would seek reelection as a U.S. representative that year, though she had pledged in 2018 to not seek the speakership again.

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Pelosi was born in Baltimore to an Italian-American family.

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