Was Cybill Shepherd a beauty queen? How old was Cybill Shepherd during Moonlighting?

Cybill Shepherd was a former beauty queen. Shepherd won the “Miss Teenage Memphis” title and represented the city at the 1966 Miss Teenage America pageant at age 16, where she won the congeniality award.

Cybill Shepherd competed at the 1968 “Model of the Year” contest at age 18, resulting in fashion model assignments through high school onwards.

Cybill Lynne Shepherd was born on February 18, 1950. She played the role of Madeline Hayes in the detective comedy-drama Moonlighting from 1985 to 1989. So she was between 35 and 39 years old during the show’s run.

Cybill Shepherd took on roles like 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).

Cybill Shepherd had her film debut in The Last Picture Show, a critical and box office hit for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe.

In 1997, Cybill Shepherd won her third Golden Globe award for Cybill (1995–1998), a television sitcom in which the title character, Cybill Sheridan was loosely modeled on herself.

In 2000, Cybill Shepherd hosted a short-lived syndicated talk show version of the book Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus.