Christa Brooke Camille Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress, born in New York City, New York, USA. She attended Princeton University.

Shields' career started among much ballyhoo over her appearance in Pretty Baby in which she had numerous nude scenes. Since she was only 12 when the film was released, and possibly 11 when it was filmed it raised questions of child pornography.

After two decades of movies, her best-known films are still arguably The Blue Lagoon (1980) (more nude scenes, but Shields later testified before a Congressional inquiry that older body doubles were used in some of them), and Endless Love (1981), both made near the beginning of her career ... (read more )