Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an 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), impressed by what he described as her "fresh, sexual threat". |