Biography And Filmography:

Sharon Stone, a former beauty pageant contestant and model, made her film debut with an unscripted role part as a woman seen from a moving train in Woody Allen's "Stardust Memories" (1980), and then endured more than ten years of typical parts to find her way to stardom. 

She attracted attention as Ryan O'Neal's calculating actress girlfriend in "Irreconcilable Differences" (1984) with Drew Barrymore, and as Robert Mitchum's daughter-in-law in the television miniseries "War and Remembrance" (1988). She worked in 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). 

Her first big Hollywood break came playing Arnold Schwarzenegger's spy wife in the science fiction action film "Total Recall" (1990). After five more thrillers and comedies, she achieved overnight success as a ravenous bisexual crime writer in the controversial and popular erotic thriller "Basic Instinct" (1992) with Michael Douglas. Her panties free, leg-crossing scene brought her lots of fame, but has haunted her ever since. 

Next was "Sliver" (1993), a hot sex drama which did average at the box office, followed by the role of the wife in "Intersection" (1994), which received great reviews despite its limited box office draw.

She then teamed with Sylvester Stallone in the volatile action thriller "The Specialist" (1994), before reading the script for "The Quick and the Dead" (1995) with Leonardo DiCaprio, and ultimately became its co-producer, paying half of DiCaprio's salary out of her own pocket when the project ran into budget problems. Unfortunately, the reaction was muted, and audiences stayed away. She bounced back as Ginger, the Las Vegas hustler who wins the love of Robert De Niro, in Martin Scorsese's "Casino" (1995). Her work won her a Best Actress Oscar nomination.

She then set up her own production company called "Chaos", and signed a deal with Miramax, where she produced the 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 significant for her clash with producers over refusing to go nude. 

In her personal life, however, the wreckage of her past roles cemented her image as a "diva", a word she tried to lose in order to be taken more seriously as an actor. She tried change the public's perception of her by taking her famous role in "The Mighty" (1988). 

Her new superstar clout led to the type of roles she liked, like in the movie "Antz”, the 1998 animated film which teamed her again with Woody Allen, and then "Sphere" (1998) with Samuel L. Jackson. She was then hired and cast as a biochemist in Barry Levinson's "Gloria" (1999), and "The Muse" (1999), playing the lead role to Albert Brooks, where a Greek muse gives her inspiration to celebrities, but not without turning their lives upside down with her demands. 

She appeared as the alcoholic wife of a horse breeder in "Simpatico" (1999). While she would sometimes appear in low budget projects - like "Picking Up the Pieces" (2000), "Beautiful Joe" (2000), and in a role opposite Ellen Degeneres in the lesbian themed "If These Walls Could Talk 2" (2000) - but her 1998-2003 marriage to newspaper publisher Phil Bronstein kept her away from Hollywood for several years. Also in 2001, she had a brain aneurysm that almost took her life.

After filing for divorce from Bronstein, she returned  looking as magnificent as ever, and took a role in director Mike Figgis' haunted house thriller "Cold Creek Manor" (2003). She gave one of her best performances as the wicked model Laurel Hadare opposite Halle Berry in "Catwoman" (2004). 

In her private life she was the subject of a courtroom battle after producers backed out of a verbal $19.35 million agreement for her to star in a sequel to "Basic Instinct". She 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).

She then starred in the sequel, “Basic Instincts 2: Risk Addiction” (2006). The actress went nude in her return role as the ice pick swinging crime writer Catherine Trammell, creating what she hoped would be a big hype to attract audiences to the theater. But “Basic Instinct 2” took a hit at the box office.  She rebounded with an amazing role in “Bobby” (2006) with Ashton Kutcher, Shia Labeouf, Helen Hunt, Lindsay Lohan, Demi Moore and Christian Slater, about director Emilio Estevez’s 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 started almost immediately following the film’s preview at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, where it received a standing ovation.

She 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, but when his television show gets cancelled, he is faced with a difficult career choice. Also that year was "When a Man Falls in the Forest" (2007), about the intertwining lives of three men that reveal they each deal with their problems in different and self-destructive ways. She started the next 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. 

She was next cast in the dramatic comedy "My Own Love Song" (2009), a love story between a former singer in a wheelchair and a injured firefighter. The actress then appeared 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, she 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.

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