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![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: February 18, 1950 in Memphis, TN Biography:American actress "Cybill Shepherd"'s pre-acting career included a runner-up stint in the Miss Teenage America pageant and seemingly thousands of modelling gigs, most prominently for Cover Girl makeup. She was spotted adorning a magazine cover by film director "Peter Bogdanovich", who selected her to play a small town heartbreaker in his prestigious 1971 film "The Last Picture Show". Shepherd was praised for her cinematic debut, though the reviews devoted more space to her diving-board striptease than her delivery of lines. Except for a part as "Charles Grodin"'s dream girl in "The Heartbreak Kid" (1972), Shepherd did most of her subsequent early film work for Bogdanovich, once her lover as well as her mentor. Reviewers were barely tolerant of her performance in "Daisy Miller" (1974) -- and with the next Bogdanovich-directed appearance in "At Long Last Love" (1975) the gloves were off, her career... Full Biography
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