Sharon Stone Biography And Filmography:

Sharon Stone proved that brains (an IQ of 155) were certainly no obstacle to building a career in the entertainment industry, especially when capitalizing on naturally blonde killer looks as a good-looking piece of "eye candy" in movies both good and bad. The former beauty pageant contestant and Ford model made her film debut with a non-speaking part as a gorgeous woman momentarily seen from a moving train in Woody Allen's "Stardust Memories" (1980) and then survived more than ten years of mostly average parts to claw her way to stardom. 

A reporters dream, Stone is one of the best interviews in Hollywood, talking sharp, independent and funny, and bringing back an old-fashioned glamour to her role as a "movie star.” Even with showing wide range as an actor, Sharon Stone has shown her true intellect to be self-invention, creating a persona to match that of stars like Joan Crawford and Betty Davis.  

The high points for Stone through the 1980s were few, though she did attract attention as Ryan O'Neal's manipulative actress girlfriend in "Irreconcilable Differences" (1984) with Drew Barrymore, and as Robert Mitchum's daughter-in-law in the much-watched ABC television miniseries "War and Remembrance" (1988). Mostly, she worked as a clichéd blonde in uninspiring films like Wes Craven's "Deadly Blessing" (1981), "King Solomon's Mines" (1985) and its sequel "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold" (1987), "Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol" (1987) and a remake of "Blood and Sand" (1989). Stone didn't do any better on television either, with a regular role as the wife of a bed-wetting baseball pitcher in the short-lived "Bay City Blues" (NBC, 1983).

Stone's first real break came playing Arnold Schwarzenegger's kick-boxing secret agent "wife" in Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi action film "Total Recall" (1990). After five more thrillers and comedies, Sharon Stone finally achieved the proverbial "overnight" success as a voracious bisexual crime writer in Verhoeven's controversial and popular erotic thriller "Basic Instinct" (1992) with Michael Douglas, written by Joe Ezsterhas. Her panties free, leg-crossing scene brought Haron Stone lots of notoriety but has haunted her ever since. 

Though she really didn't want to do "Sliver" (1993), another hot sex drama which did moderate business stateside and smashing box office overseas, Sharon couldn't find any other part she liked better, so she made the mistake of withdrawing into the much more familiar and traditionally sympathetic role as the victim of a psychotic voyeur. Trying to escape the sex bomb trap, she begged for the distant wife role in "Intersection" (1994) and scored great reviews despite its limited box office success.

Sharon Stone again flexed her international box-office clout paired with Sylvester Stallone in the explosive action thriller "The Specialist" (1994), and though she couldn't make Stallone sexy, her good work helped make the film (which James Woods walked off with) worth watching. Stone liked the script for "The Quick and the Dead" (1995) with Leonardo DiCaprio, and became its co-producer, paying half of Leonardo DiCaprio's salary out of her own pocket when the project ran into difficulties. Unfortunately, the critical reaction was one-sided, and the public stayed away. Stone rebounded as Ginger, the Vegas hustler who wins the heart of Robert De Niro, in Martin Scorsese's "Casino" (1995) and won her Best Actress Oscar nomination.

The now highly-paid, much-in-demand diva, having her own production company (Chaos) and a first-look deal with Miramax, produced a remake of the noir classic "Diabolique" and played a death-row inmate whose lawyer (Rob Morrow) works to save her from execution in "Last Dance" (1996). The former was noteworthy more for her battle with its producer over refusing to go nude, while the latter, despite presenting a dull, subdued Stone, was in the wrong place at the wrong time, following so close on the heels of the previous year's "Dead Man Walking.” 

Stone's acting teacher Roy London had told her that audiences could love to hate her, and the advice made her a star. In her personal life, however, the wreckage of femme fatalities left in her wake solidified her image as a diva, a term she sought to lose in order to be taken seriously as an actress. Stone went to work on changing the public's perception of her, appearing in  "The Mighty" (1988). 

Having reached the age of 40, Stone intended to keep her clothes on, and her superstar power led to the assortment she had craved in movies like "Antz,” the 1998 animated film which vocally reunited her with Woody Allen, "Sphere" (1998) with Samuel L. Jackson. She was then cast as a biochemist in the lackluster Barry Levinson venture, "Gloria" (1999), and "The Muse" (1999), playing the lead role to Albert Brooks, a Greek muse who lends her inspiration to Hollywood types, but not without turning their lives upside down with her demands. 

She appeared as the alcoholic wife of a horse breeder in the otherwise dismal "Simpatico" (1999). Although Sharon Stone would sometimes resurface in low-profile projects - including "Picking Up the Pieces" (2000) with Woody Allen, "Beautiful Joe" (2000) and in a charming role opposite Ellen Degeneres in HBO's lesbian themed "If These Walls Could Talk 2" (2000) - but her 1998-2003 marriage to San Francisco Chronicle publisher Phil Bronstein kept her away from Hollywood - geographically and on film for many years. Also in 2001, the Stone suffered a brain aneurysm that nearly proved fatal.

After filing for divorce from Bronstein, Sharon Stone returned looking as fit and fabulous as ever and lit up the movie screen again in director Mike Figgis' sly reinvention of a haunted house thriller "Cold Creek Manor" (2003). Stone gave one of her most campy roles as the villainous model Laurel Hadare opposite Halle Berry in "Catwoman" (2004) on screen, while off-screen she was the subject of a courtroom battle after producers backed out of an alleged verbal $19.35 million agreement for her to star in a sequel to "Basic Instinct", she later settled, with part of deal including a planned sequel. Stone then played one of four ex-girlfriends tracked down by a man (Bill Murray) who received an anonymous letter from the mother of his unknown son in “Broken Flowers” (2005).

At 48, an age when most actresses have had trouble even getting a role, Sharon Stone returned to the place that made her famous when she starred in the long-talked-about sequel, “Basic Instincts 2: Risk Addiction” (2006). As promised, the nearly-50-year-old actress went nude in her return as the ice pick-wielding crime novelist Catherine Trammell, creating what she hoped would be a big enough sensation to tempt curiosity seekers into the theaters. But “Basic Instinct 2” took a drubbing.  In a amazing role later in the year, Stone was well received in “Bobby” (2006) with Ashton Kutcher, Shia Labeouf, Helen Hunt, Lindsay Lohan, Demi Moore and Christian Slater, about  first time director Emilio Estevez’s engaging look at the 16 hours prior to Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles as seen through the eyes of several guests and employees. Oscar talk was high in the weeks following the film’s debut at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, where it received a nine-minute long standing ovation, particularly for Stone and costar Demi Moore.

Sharon then appeared in the comedy "If I Had Known I Was a Genius" (2007) about a teenager with a high I.Q. who decides to become an actor. When his TV show gets cancelled, he is faced with a difficult career choice. Also that year was the little-seen "When a Man Falls in the Forest" (2007) about the intertwining lives of three men that reveal they each deal with his problems in different, self-destructive ways. Stone started off the new year with the comedy "The Year of Getting to Know Us" (2008) with Jimmy Fallon and Lucy Liu, about a commitment-phobic man who reunites with his estranged, ailing father and comes to terms with his own childhood. Next was another comedy "Five Dollars a Day" (2008) about the conservative son of a thrifty conman who begrudgingly joins his father on the road -- after being released from jail for one of his dad's earlier crimes. 

Sharon started off the new year with the dramatic comedy "My Own Love Song" (2009) a love story between a former singer in a wheelchair and a injured firefighter. The actress was then cast in the action drama "Streets Of Blood" (2009) starring Val Kilmer, about a police officer's partner who died during Hurricane Katrina, but later discovers that his partner may have been murdered. Finally that year Stone partnered with Brad Pitt in the historical drama "Dirty Tricks" (2010), a funny tale about the wife of Richard Nixon's attorney general who comes to her husband's defense in the aftermath of Watergate.

• Born:
  on 03/10/1958 in Meadville, Pennsylvania
• Job Titles:
  Actor, Model, Producer, Counter girl, Waitress

Family

• Aunt: Vonne Stone. father's sister; earned Master's in English literature and fine arts and encouraged Stone in her creative pursuits
• Brother: Michael Stone. born in 1951; did two years at Attica prison for cocaine possession; self-described marijuana smuggler; made acting debut in "The Quick and the Dead" (1995) which sister co-produced; engaged briefly to British model and socialite Tamara Beckwith
• Brother: Patrick Stone. younger
• Father: Joseph Stone.
• Mother: Dorothy Stone. studied bookkeeping at night and returned to high school, graduating in Stone's class
• Sister: Kelly Stone. executive director, Planet Hope; born 1961
• Son: Laird Vonne Stone. adopted May 7, 2005
• Son: Quinn Stone. adopted June, 2006
• Son: Roan Joseph Bronstein. adopted; born on May 22, 2000 in Texas

Significant Others

• Companion: Bernie Cahill. linked in 2003 and 2004; no longer together
• Companion: Craig Ferguson. briefly dated in 2005; rumored to be dating again as of Summer 2007
• Companion: Dwight Yoakam. Stone referred to him as a "dirt sandwich" after their breakup
• Husband: Phil Bronstein. editor at San Francisco Examiner when pair wed on February 14, 1998; born c. 1951; underwent angioplasty in August 1999
• Companion: Barry Josephson. dated in 1995
• Companion: Bill McDonald. engaged to be married, met on the set of "Sliver"; dumped his wife Naomi Baca (now Mrs. Joe Eszterhas) for Stone; no longer together
• Companion: Bob Wagner. worked on two 1995 movies starring Stone ("The Quick and the Dead" and "Casino"); Stone described him as "gorgeous, in a 70's playboy kind of way"; no longer together; she returned his engagement ring via Federal Express
• Companion: Chris Peters. son of Jon Peters; was reportedly devestated when Stone took up with Bill McDonald
• Companion: Dwight Yoakam. Stone referred to him as a "dirt sandwich" after their breakup
• Companion: Garry Shandling. dated briefly; worked predicament into a segment of "The Larry Sanders Show" entitled "The Mr. Sharon Stone Show"
• Companion: Hart Bochner. dated briefly
• Companion: Jim Connelly. no longer together
• Companion: Michael Benasra. dated in the summer of 1996

Education

• Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, Pennsylvania, creative writing, fine arts, 1977
• Saegertown High School, Saegertown, Pennsylvania

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