Laura Linney and Brooke Shields friendship started as children in the same Manhattan neighborhood. Laura and Brooke went to elementary school together.
The two of them share a strong bond and speak highly of each other.
The Suddenly Susan actress, Brooke Shields, was born on May 31, 1965, in Manhattan, New York. Shields is the daughter of actress, model, and socialite Teri Shields.
Teri is known for Wanda Nevada, Endless Love, Sahara, and Backstreet Dreams. Likewise, her father Frank Shields was an acclaimed businessman and held an executive post at Revlon.
Her parents got married in 1964, only to get divorced a few months later. As their parents separated following her birth, she has no siblings.
However, Shields has two stepbrothers and three half-sisters.
Teri raised her daughter Brooke as a single mother and wanted her to be a famous star one day. She photographed Brooke at 11 months old for an Ivory soap commercial followed by various other commercials and infomercials.
In 1978 Brooke got her first breakthrough role at 12 years old in Louis Malle’s film Pretty Baby. In the film, she was seen portraying a daughter of an escort.
Laura Linney And Brooke Shields Friendship
Laura Linney And Brooke Shields friendship began when they grew up in the same Manhattan neighborhood.
Linney was born to a nurse mother, Ann Leggett, and a professor father, Romolus Linney, who raised her with utmost love and care.
Whilst Laura Linney had a good childhood with educated and well-earning parents, Shields had no choice but to live with her abusive alcoholic mother.
The two girls have been friends since their early days, and they have seen the exact environment of each other’s household. That is why Linney spoke about her friend’s domestic abuse in her documentary Pretty Baby.
The Blue Lagoon actress posted a childhood photo to honor her friendship with her friend Laura after her 56th birthday in 2020. The gorgeous actors were little girls with big smiles and dreamy eyes.
We can see Laura rocking a white t-shirt with open blonde hair and Shields wearing jeans and overall pants with a dark t-shirt underneath. They seem to be enjoying their day in a swing-like thing.
Although they do not make public appearances together or share much on their socials, they are indeed friendship goals.
Who Is Brooke Shields Best Friend Laura Linney?
Brooke Shields best friend Laura Linney is an award-winning American actress with two Golden Globes and four Primetime Emmy Awards.
The Ozark star debuted on stage through a minor role as Nina in the Off-Broadway adaptation of “The Seagull” set in the Hamptons. She then played a minor role in the 1992 film Lorenzo’s.
Following the trail of minor roles, she became a part of the Academy award-nominated drama, You Can Count on Me, Kinsey, and The Savages.
During the 90s, Linney was seen in several Broadway shows and got some here and their roles in the films Congo, Primal Fear, and Absolute Power.
Though she had worked with several characters over the decade, her breakthrough role was in the 1998 film The Truman Show. In the film, she was applauded for her role as Jim Carey’s wife, Meryl Burbank.
Since then, Linney has worked in Sully, The Roads Not Taken, Tales of the City and Ozark.
Also, Linney received a star at Hollywood Boulevard in 2022. Her stark is next to her Ozark co-star Jason Bateman.
Linney is married to her husband, Marc Schauer, a Real Estate Mogul. He is also a substance abuse and alcohol counselor. The couple has a son born on January 8, 2014.
The love birds first met at Telluride Film Festival in 2004.
Before settling down with Marc, Linney was in a troublesome marriage with actor David Adkins. They married in 1995 and got divorced five years later, in 2000.
Laura Linney Appears in Documentary Pretty Baby
Actress Laura Linney appeared in her friend Brooke’s documentary Pretty Baby. The documentary was released on January 20, 2023, on Hulu.
Pretty Baby is a film directed by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Lana Wilson. The film stars Drew Barrymore, Gregory Butler, Isobel Coleman, Lyda Ely, Meenakshi Durham and Gavin de Becker.
The makers have also used archive footage of Tom Hanks, Ernie Anastos, Rona Barrett, Tom Brokaw, Arsenio Hall, Harrison Ford, and Ava Gardner.
Actors like Johnny Carson, Mike Douglas, James Charles, and Spencer Christian footage were also used in filmmaking.
The documentary has depicted the abuse and sexualization of child actors in the film fraternity. It is based on the life story of actress Brooke Shields who endured objectification from a young age.
She was twelve when the film of the same name, Pretty Baby released in 1978. Her role in the film demanded to be an adult worker as her character was born in a brothel to a courtesan.
Her character Violet was auctioned in the film in the very brothel she called home. She was sold for $400, abused by her mother, and married to a child predator.
As mentioned above, her mother, Teri, was a self-possessed alcoholic stage mom who wanted to make a star out of her daughter at any cost.
Teri was neglectful and forced Brooke into working even as a toddler. Unwantedly, Brooke was exposed to child sexualization before she even knew what the ordeal would bring in the future.
The Princeton University alum Brooke has been friends with Ozark star Linney from early childhood. Linney talked about their childhood and shared Brooke’s circumstances at home.
Linney lived her friend’s story from the inside. She knew about her abusive mother and the opportunist men who took her provocative nude photographs before she was 10.
It made true sense when the documentary had an inside version of stories corroborated by a best friend.