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Actress Cybill Shepherd started her career in the mid-sixties as a teen model; at 16, she participated in the Miss Teenage America pageant. According to her autobiography, she was spotted by film director Peter Bogdanovich on the cover of Glamour magazine, and that’s what made him cast the model to his 1971 film The Last Picture Show.
That’s how Shepherd received her first acting role, alongside Jeff Bridges and Timothy Bottoms. The film’s box-office and critical success is what skyrocketed Shepherd’s acting career. Cybill went on to star in many films during the seventies and eighties, including Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, and ABC’s popular television series Moonlighting.