Sharon Stone

A famous, sought-after Hollywood actress, model, and producer.

Biography

        Born on March 10, 1958, in Meadville, Pennsylvania (USA), to a colourman named Joseph Stone and an accountant named Dorothy Stone. She has an older brother Michael, younger sister Kelly and younger brother Patrick. Graduated from Saegertown High School in Saegertown, Pennsylvania. At age 15, studied Creative Writing and Fine Arts at Edinboro State University of Pennsylvania and successfully graduated.

        Intelligent, with an IQ of 154, and also very beautiful (5' 7", gray-blue eyes and blond hair) - at age 17 won the Miss of Pennsylvania contest. Stone was convinced that there's more to it and two years later she began a succesful career as a model in New York. She worked for Eileen Ford's model agency, appearing in magazines such as Vogue, Elle, and didn't spare her naughty bits in Playboy.

        It took 12 years for Stone as an actress to reach the famous Hollywoord stardom level. Her first role was a non-speaking part as a beautiful woman fleetingly glimpsed from a moving train in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980). Stone starred in many small screen movies and made guest appearances in several series. Through the 80's, Stone appeared as a stereotypical blonde in mostly forgettable roles (see filmography below).

        Stone first became noticable in her part along with Arnold Schwarzenegger as a kick-boxing, secret agent "wife" in Paul Verhoeven's unforgettable SciFi actioner Total Recall (1990). After yet five more forgettable thrillers and comedies, she finally achieved the proverbial "overnight" stardom as a sexually voracious crime writer opposite Michael Douglas in Verhoeven's controversial and popular erotic thriller, Basic Instinct (1992). Her pantie-less leg-crossing scene brought Stone much-needed notoriety and attention, but has haunted her ever since.

        In a more conventionally sympathetic role, Stone followed up with another sizzling sex melodrama, Sliver (1993), which did middling business stateside but proved a solid success overseas. Trying to escape the sex-bomb trap, she begged for the frigid wife role in Intersection (1994), which met with limited success. She again flexed her international box-office clout paired with Sylvester Stallone in the explosive actioner The Specialist (1994) but fared much less well commercially with her next project, The Quick and the Dead (1995), which marked her producing debut. She rebounded with her widely acclaimed performance as Ginger, the Vegas hustler who wins the heart of Robert De Niro, in Casino (1995).

        Stone was married to Phil Bronstein, a newspaper editor, on Valentine's Day, 1998. These two got separated in 2003. The couple adopted a baby boy together in 2000, named Roan Joseph Bronstein. This is the second marriage for Sharon, who was previously married to associate producer Michael Greenburg, from 1984 to 1987. Stone has already been romantically linked to singer Dwight Yoakam and actor/comedian Garry Shandling. The highly-paid star, founded her own production company, Chaos, and co-produced The Quick and the Dead (1995). Stone, who lives in a gated French chateau in Beverly Hills, is a diva who thoroughly enjoys her hard-won stardom, is a clever manipulator of her public image. On heavy press days, she reportedly changes outfits between each interview and photo session, a practice unheard of since the days of Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer.

        "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships."

Filmography

1. A Different Loyalty (2003) .... Eleanor Philby
2. Cold Creek Manor (2003)
3. AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Tom Hanks (2002) (TV) .... Herself
4. Searching for Debra Winger (2002) .... Herself
5. 74th Annual Academy Awards, The (2002) (TV) .... Herself
6. Who is Alan Smithee? (2002) (TV) (uncredited) (archive footage) .... Herself
7. "Harold and the Purple Crayon" (2002) TV Series (voice) .... Narrator
8. Blonde Poison: The Making of Basic Instinct (2001) (V) .... Herself
9. Imagining Total Recall (2001) (V) .... Herself (archive footage)
10. In the Shadow of Hollywood (2000) (archive footage) (uncredited) .... Herself (at Cannes)
    
11. Beyond the Summit (2000) (TV) .... Narrated By
12. CyberWorld (2000) (voice) (archive footage) .... Princess Bala
13. Too Much Flesh (2000) .... Sue-Lyne
14. Beautiful Joe (2000) .... Hush (Alice) Mason
15. Picking Up the Pieces (2000) .... Candy Cowley
16. If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) (TV) .... Fran (segment "2000")
17. AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars (1999) (TV) .... Herself
18. Forever Hollywood (1999) (voice) .... Narrator
19. The Stars of Star Wars: Interviews with the Cast (1999) (V) .... Herself
20. The Sissy Duckling (1999) (TV) .... Narrator
21. Simpatico (1999) .... Rosie
    
22. The Muse (1999) .... Sarah Little
23. Jews and Buddhism: Belief Amended, Faith Revealed (1999) (V) (voice) .... Narrator
24. Gloria (1999) .... Gloria
25. Junket Whore (1998) .... Herself
26. Antz (1998) (voice) .... Princess Bala
27. Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1998) .... Herself
28. The Mighty (1998) .... Gwen Dillon
29. Sphere (1998) .... Dr. Beth Halperin
30. Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western (1997) (TV) .... Herself
31. American Film Institute Salute to Martin Scorsese, The (1997) (TV) .... Herself
32. Last Dance (1996) .... Cindy Liggett
33. Diabolique (1996) .... Nicole Horner
34. The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful (1996) (TV) .... Herself
35. Catwalk (1995/I) .... Herself
36. "Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child" (1995) TV Series (voice) .... Narrator
37. Casino (1995) .... Ginger McKenna
    
38. The Celluloid Closet (1995) .... Herself
    
39. 67th Annual Academy Awards, The (1995) (TV) (uncredited) .... Herself
40. The Quick and the Dead (1995) .... Ellen 'The Lady'
41. The Comedy Hall of Fame (1994) (TV) .... Herself
42. The Specialist (1994) .... May Munro/Adrian Hastings
43. Intersection (1994) .... Sally Eastman
44. 1993 MTV Movie Awards (1993) (TV) .... Herself/Presenter
45. Harlow: The Blonde Bombshell (1993) (TV) .... Host
46. Last Action Hero (1993) .... Cameo appearance (Catherine Tramell)
47. Sliver (1993) .... Carly Norris
    
48. Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1992) .... Serena Black
49. 64th Annual Academy Awards, The (1992) (TV) (uncredited) .... Herself
50. Basic Instinct (1992) .... Catherine Tramell
51. Scissors (1991) .... Angie Anderson
52. Diary of a Hitman (1991) .... Kiki
53. Year of the Gun (1991) .... Alison King
54. He Said, She Said (1991) .... Linda
55. Making of 'Total Recall', The (1990) (TV) .... Herself
56. Total Recall (1990) .... Lori
57. Beyond the Stars (1989) .... Laurie McCall
    ... aka Personal Choice (1989)
58. Sangre y arena (1989) .... Doa Sol
    ... aka Blood and Sand (1989)
59. Tears in the Rain (1988) (TV) .... Casey Cantrell
60. "War and Remembrance" (1988) (mini) TV Series .... Janice Henry
61. Above the Law (1988) .... Sara Toscani
    ... aka Nico (1988) (UK: cable TV title)
62. Action Jackson (1988) .... Patrice Dellaplane
63. Cold Steel (1987) .... Kathy
64. Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987) .... Jesse Huston
65. Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987) .... Claire Mattson, Morning Herald Press Reporter
66. King Solomon's Mines (1985) .... Jesse Huston
67. The Vegas Strip War (1984) (TV) .... Sarah Shipman
    ... aka Las Vegas Strip War (1984) (TV)
68. Irreconcilable Differences (1984) .... Blake Chandler/Amanda
69. Calendar Girl Murders (1984) (TV) .... Cassie Bascomb
    ... aka Insatiable (1984) (TV)
    ... aka Victimized (1984/I) (TV)
70. "Bay City Blues" (1983) TV Series .... Cathy St. Marie
71. "Les Uns et les autres" (1983) (mini) TV Series (uncredited) .... Girl
72. Not Just Another Affair (1982) (TV) .... Lynette
    ... aka Perfect Affair (1982) (TV)
73. Uns et les autres, Les (1981) (uncredited) .... Girl with Glenn Senior
    ... aka Bolero (1981) (USA)
    ... aka Within Memory (1981)
74. Deadly Blessing (1981) .... Lana Marcus
75. Stardust Memories (1980) .... Pretty Girl on train

1. The Quick and the Dead (1995) (co-producer)