A blonde Southern beauty with a fearless attitude – which some described over the years as foolhardy – Cybill Shepherd was a former beauty queen who rose to fame in the early 1970s, after a star-making turn in director Peter Bogdanovich’s Oscar-winning “The Last Picture Show.” Her fame waned by the middle of the decade, thanks to a string of flops and a highly public break-up with her Svengali director/boyfriend, Bogdanovich, but she returned with a vengeance as the sassy P.I. Maddie Hayes on the smart TV comedy, “Moonlighting” (ABC, 1985-89) and as campier TV version of herself on the hit sitcom, “Cybill” (CBS, 1995-98).

This multi-talented performer shot to fame when she conquered Broadway with her galvanizing stage presence in the musicals, "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" (1962) and "Funny Girl" (1964), in the latter as the gawky but gifted Fanny Brice. Streisand next powered a number of popular albums ("My Name Is Barbra") and award-winning TV specials ("Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park"; "My Name Is Barbra", which was based on her hit album and won five Emmys) before moving into films.