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Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950) is an American actress, singer, and former model. Her film debut and breakthrough role came as Jacy Farrow in Peter Bogdanovich's coming-of-age drama The Last Picture Show (1971) alongside Jeff Bridges. She also had roles as Kelly in Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid (1972), Betsy in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), and Nancy in Woody Allen's Alice (1990).
On television, her first major role was as Colleen Champion in the one season of the night-time drama The Yellow Rose (1983). Shepherd played Madelyn Hayes on the detective comedy-drama Moonlighting (1985–1989) opposite Bruce Willis, for which she won two Golden Globes for Best Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy out of three such nominations. She later starred as Cybill Sheridan on Cybill (1995–1998), for which she won her third Golden Globe Award as Best Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy. Her later television roles included Phyllis Kroll on The L Word (2007–2009), Madeleine Spencer on Psych (2008–2013), Cassie in the television film The Client List (2010), and Linette Montgomery on The Client List (2012–2013).
According to Shepherd's autobiography, a 1970 Glamour magazine cover caught the eye of film director Peter Bogdanovich. His then-wife, Polly Platt, claimed that when she saw the cover in a check-out line in a Ralphs grocery store in southern California, he said "That's Jacy," referring to the role Bogdanovich was casting—and ultimately given to Shepherd—in The Last Picture Show (1971).
In 1974, Shepherd again teamed up with Peter Bogdanovich for the title role in Daisy Miller, based on the Henry James novella. The film—a period piece set in Europe—was a box office failure. That same year, she launched a singing career, releasing a studio album Cybill Does It...To Cole Porter for MCA Records. It was panned by Village Voice critic Robert Christgau, who wrote: "Her voice is surprisingly pleasant, but you'd never know how these songs sparkle. Since Cole Porter didn't like to . . . do it with (or 'to') women very much, maybe the 'do' is as hostile as it sounds." (1981). 089919026X, Ticknor & Fields. 089919026X
In 1975, she made At Long Last Love, a film musical directed by Bogdanovich. The film received scathing negative reviews, named by many as the worst major film of the year, and Shepherd herself received negative reviews.Gallagher, John. August 2004: Peter Bogdanovich National Board of Review, accessed June 4, 2013
Shepherd returned with good reviews for her supporting work in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). According to Shepherd, Scorsese had requested a "Cybill Shepherd type" for the role. She portrayed Betsy, a volunteer for a presidential candidate with whom Robert De Niro's character, Travis Bickle, becomes infatuated.
A series of less-successful roles followed, including The Lady Vanishes (1979), a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film. Already sitting in on an acting class taught by Stella Adler, Shepherd was offered work at a dinner theater in Norfolk, Virginia, and turned to friend Orson Welles for advice. He encouraged her to get experience on stage in front of an audience, anywhere but Los Angeles or New York City, away from the harsh big-city critics so she moved back to her home town of Memphis to work in regional theatre.
In 1981, Shepherd appeared in a play directed by Orson Bean, Vanities, staged in St. Louis, Missouri."Cybill Sherpherd at Westport." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, Sunday, February 01, 1981, p 33.
She starred in Chances Are (1989) with Robert Downey Jr. and Ryan O'Neal, receiving excellent reviews. She then reprised her role as Jacy in Texasville (1990), the sequel to The Last Picture Show (1971), as the original cast (and director Peter Bogdanovich) reunited 20 years after filming the original. She appeared in Woody Allen's Alice (1990) and Eugene Levy's Once Upon a Crime (1992), as well as several television films. In 1997, she won her third Golden Globe award for Cybill (1995–1998), a television sitcom in which the title character, Cybill Sheridan, an actress struggling with hammy roles in and bad , was loosely modeled on herself, including portrayals of her two ex-husbands and her then-teenage daughter.
In 2000, Shepherd's bestselling autobiography, Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think, written in collaboration with Aimee Lee Ball, was published. That same year, Shepherd hosted a short-lived syndicated talk show version of the book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, but left the show in early 2001. In 2003, she guest-starred on 8 Simple Rules as the sister of Cate Hennessy (portrayed by Katey Sagal). She has played Martha Stewart in two television films: (2003) and (2005).
From 2007 until it ended, Shepherd appeared on The L Word as Phyllis Kroll for the show's final three seasons. In 2008, she joined the cast of Psych as main character Shawn Spencer's mother, Madeleine Spencer. On November 7, 2008, Shepherd guest-starred in a February episode of the CBS drama Criminal Minds. Exclusive: Michael Biehn, Cybill Shepherd Cop Criminal Roles" TV Guide. November 7, 2008. Retrieved on November 7, 2008. In 2010 Shepherd appeared in an episode of No Ordinary Family and in November of the same year she guest-starred in an episode of $♯*! My Dad Says.
Shepherd appeared alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt in the 2010 television film The Client List and then in the 2012-13 series based on the film.
In July 2012, Shepherd made her Broadway theatre debut in the revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre alongside James Earl Jones, John Stamos, John Larroquette, Kristin Davis, and Elizabeth Ashley to positive reviews.; ;
Shepherd appeared as a mother grieving the death of her daughter in Do You Believe? (2015), a Christian-themed movie produced by Pure Flix Entertainment.
In 2017, she took on a role as an ex-cop senior struggling with illness who unexpectedly finds love on a road trip in the direct-to-cable Being Rose.
In 2023, Shepherd starred in the Lifetime film , where she portrayed Nancy Brophy, opposite Steve Guttenberg as Daniel Brophy, in a dramatization of the Murder of Daniel Brophy.
In 1987, Shepherd became pregnant by chiropractor Bruce Oppenheim and married him. They had twins, born during the fourth season of Moonlighting. The couple divorced in 1990. She had an intimate relationship with author Larry McMurtry, whom she once called the love of her life.
In June 2012, Shepherd became engaged to psychologist Andrei Nikolajevic. By 2015, the engagement had been called off.
She was present at the opening of the National Civil Rights Museum in her hometown of Memphis, to which she lent financial support.
In October 2014, Shepherd said that she had reconnected with her Christian faith.
In her autobiography, Shepherd addressed rumors that she was jealous of her co-stars Bruce Willis and Christine Baranski for winning Emmy awards while she has not: "The grain of truth in this controversy was that of course I was envious. Who doesn't want to win an Emmy?"
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Film
1971 The Last Picture Show Jacy Farrow Nominated—Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress 1972 The Heartbreak Kid Kelly Corcoran 1974 Daisy Miller Annie P. 'Daisy' Miller 1975 At Long Last Love Brooke Carter 1976 Taxi Driver Betsy 1976 Special Delivery Mary Jane 1977 Aliens from Spaceship Earth Herself Documentary 1978 Silver Bears Debbie Luckman 1979 The Lady Vanishes Amanda Kelly 1979 Americathon Gold Girl 1980 The Return Jennifer 1989 Chances Are Corinne Jeffries 1990 Texasville Jacy Farrow 1990 Alice Nancy Brill 1991 Picture This: The Times of Peter Bogdanovich Herself Documentary 1991 Married to It Claire Laurent 1992 Once Upon a Crime... Marilyn Schwary 1995 The Last Word Kiki Taylor 1999 The Muse Herself 2000 Marine Life June 2003 Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Herself 2004 Signs and Voices Herself 2006 Open Window Arlene Fieldson 2006 Hard Luck Cass 2009 Barry Munday Herself 2009 Another Harvest Moon Vickie 2009 Listen to Your Heart Victoria 2010 Expecting Mary Meg 2014 Kelly & Cal Bev 2015 Do You Believe? Teri 2015 She's Funny That Way Nettie Patterson 2017 Being Rose Rose 2020 Love Is Love Is Love Nancy
Television
1978 A Guide for the Married Woman Julie Walker Television movie 1983 Fantasy Island Liz Episode: "Return to the Cotton Club" 1983–84 The Yellow Rose Colleen Champion 22 episodes 1983 Masquerade Carla Episode: "Pilot" 1984 Secrets of a Married Man Elaine Television movie 1985 Seduced Vicki Orloff Television movie 1985 The Long Hot Summer Eula Varner Television movie 1985–89 Moonlighting Madelyn 'Maddie' Hayes 64 episodes
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy (1986–1987)
People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Performer in a Television Series (1986–1988)
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series1991 Which Way Home Karen Parsons Television movie 1992 Memphis Reeny Perdew Television movie 1992 Stormy Weathers Samantha Weathers Television movie 1993 Telling Secrets Faith Kelsey Television movie 1993 There Was a Little Boy Julie Warner Television movie 1994 Baby Brokers Debbie Freeman Television movie 1994 While Justice Sleeps Jody Stokes Television movie 1995–98 Cybill Cybill Sheridan 87 episodes
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy
Nominated—People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Performer in a Television Series
Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (1995–1997)
Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy
Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series1997 Journey of the Heart Janice Johnston Television movie 2002 Due East Nell Dugan Television movie 2003 8 Simple Rules Aunt Maggie 2 episodes 2003 Martha Stewart Television movie 2004 I'm With Her Suzanne 2 episodes 2005 Detective Karen Ainslie Television movie 2005 Martha Stewart Television movie 2007–09 The L Word Phyllis Kroll 18 episodes 2008–13 Psych Madeline Spencer 5 episodes 2008 Samantha Who? Paula Drake Episode: "So I Think I Can Dance" 2009 Criminal Minds Leona Gless Episode: "Cold Comfort" 2009–10 Eastwick Eleanor Rougement 5 episodes 2009 High Noon Essie McNamara Television movie 2009 Mrs. Washington Goes to Smith Alice Washington Television movie 2010 Drop Dead Diva Ellie Tannen Episode: "Queen of Mean" 2010 $♯*! My Dad Says Charlotte Anne Robinson Episode: "Make a Wish" 2010 No Ordinary Family Barbara Crane Episode: "No Ordinary Visitors" 2010 The Client List Cassie Television movie 2012–13 The Client List Linette Montgomery 23 episodes 2012 Hot in Cleveland April Episode: "What's Behind the Door" 2012 Franklin and Bash Evanthia Steele Episode: "Jango and Rossi" 2013 Jolene Castille Episode: "American Tragedy" 2018 The Comedy Central Roast Herself Episode: "Bruce Willis" 2021 Guilty Party Susan Burgess Episode: "Acts of Devotion" 2023 How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story Nancy Brophy Television movie
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