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

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). 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. Years later, in an interview with E!|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."

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. 

Shepherd did receive good reviews for her work in
Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), but after a
series of flops, she left show business in 1978
after completing filming on the less than
successful remake The Lady Vanishes 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. After an absence of several years,
however, Shepherd auditioned for and won a
co-starring role opposite Bruce Willis in the
television series, Moonlighting (TV
series)|Moonlighting. A lighthearted combination
of Mystery fiction|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.


In the 1990s she starred in Cybill, a television
Situation comedy|sitcom, in which the title
character was roughly modelled on herself: an
actress struggling with hammy parts in B movies
and bad soaps, a role for which she won her third
Golden Globe award. 

In 2001, Shepherd published her memoirs "Cybill
Disobedience" (How I Survived Beauty Pageants,
Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage,
Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge
to Say What I Think.)


==Filmography:==

*Open Window (2005)
*Marine Life (2000)
*The Muse (1999)
*The Last Word (aka Cosa Nostra: The Last Word)
(1994)
*Once Upon a Crime... (1992)
*Married to It (1991)
*Alice (1990)
*Texasville (1990)
*Chances Are (1989)
*The Return (aka The Alien's Return aka
Earthright) (1980)
*Americathon (1979) (minor appearance)
*The Lady Vanishes (1979) (remake of a Alfred
Hitchcock|Hitchcock classic)
*Silver Bears (1977)
*Special Delivery (aka Dangerous Break) (1976)
*Taxi Driver (1976)
*At Long Last Love (1975)
*Daisy Miller (1974)
*The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
*The Last Picture Show (1971)

Her autobiography (written in collaboration with
Aimee Lee Ball) is punningly entitled civil
disobedience|Cybill Disobedience (ISBN
0061030147).