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Sharon Stone was born in 1958 in Meadville Pensylvannia as a second child of her
parents. Her father was a colourman and her mother worked as an accountant. Sharon
studied creative writing and fine arts at Edinboro State University of
Pennsylvania. When she was seventeen she won title "Miss of Pensylvanny". Two years
later she began succesfuly career as a model in New York. She worked for Eileen
Ford's model agency. She posed also for magazines like Vogue and Elle and we can
find her naked in Playboy too.
This former beauty pageant contestant and Ford model made her film debut with a
non-speaking part as a beautiful woman fleetingly glimpsed from a moving train in
Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), and thereafter clawed her way to a stardom
that has brought back an old-fashioned, high-octane glamour to the role of "movie
star." Sharon Stone, who grew up a bookworm in a large family in Northwest
Pennsylvania, worked her way up from McDonald's counter-girl to successful Ford
model (both in print ads and TV commercials) by the late 1970s.
Through the 1980s, Stone appeared as a stereotypical blonde in mostly forgettable
roles: in Wes Craven's Deadly Blessing (1981); as a down-and-out waitress turned
petulant movie star in Irreconcilable Differences (1984); an archaeologist's
daughter in King Solomon's Mines (1985) and its sequel, Allan Quatermain and the
Lost City of Gold (1987). Other unmemorable early credits include Police Academy 4:
Citizens on Patrol (1987), Action Jackson (1988) and the umpteenth remake of Blood
and Sand (1989).
Stone also struggled in TV, beginning with a tiny part in "Not Just Another Affair"
(CBS, 1982), the short-lived series Bay City Blues (NBC, 1983) and gradually bigger
(though not better) roles in the TV movies "Calendar Girl Murders" (ABC, 1984),
"The Vegas Strip War" (NBC, 1984), the failed cop-show pilot "Hollywood Starr"
(ABC, 1985), "Mr. and Mrs. Ryan" (ABC, 1986), "Badlands 2005" (ABC, 1988) and
"Tears in the Rain" (Showtime, 1988). Probably her only TV success was a supporting
role as Robert Mitchum's daughter-in-law in the epic miniseries War and Remembrance
(ABC, 1988-89).
Stone's first real break was playing Arnold Schwarzenegger's kick-boxing, secret
agent "wife" in Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi actioner Total Recall (1990). After 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, 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.
Stone looked terrific in Western duds playing something of a distaff version of a
Clint Eastwood-like gunfighter. Her directorial choice, Sam Raimi, helmed the
smartly derivative tale with style to spare but the critical reception was uneven
and the public stayed away. She rebounded with her widely acclaimed performance as
Ginger, the Vegas hustler who wins the heart of Robert De Niro, in Casino (also
1995).
The highly-paid, much-in-demand star (she has her own production company, Chaos,
and has signed a first-look deal with Miramax) next filmed a remake of the noir
classic Diabolique with Isabelle Adjani and Chazz Palmentieri and played a
death-row inmate whose lawyer (Rob Morrow) works to save her from execution in Last
Dance (both 1996). Stone, 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. She lives, fittingly enough, in a gated
French chateau in Beverly Hills.
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