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Sharon Stone was born Sharon Vonne Stone on March
10, 1958 in Meadville, Pennsylvania outside of
Pittsburgh.  She is an United States|American
Actor|actress, model (person)|model (height: 5 ft
7 in (1.70 m)), and producer with ancestral roots
in Galway, Ireland. She came to international
attention for her performance in the 1992
blockbuster film Basic Instinct, which caused
controversy for its erotic content. She was one of
the highest paid actresses in Hollywood in the
1990s, until she moved to San Francisco to live
with her husband and raise their adopted son. 
When that marriage dissolved, Stone returned to
Los Angeles and resumed her film career.

==Early life and education==

Stone was born in Meadville,
Pennsylvania|Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA, a farm
town north of Pittsburgh, in which the number-one
occupation is milking cows. The second of four
children, she is the daughter of Joe and Dorothy
Stone, who were blue collar workers. It has been
said that her parents raised her with feminist
values. "My dad never raised me to believe that
being a woman inhibited any of my choices or my
possibilities to succeed. To be a feminist like
Dad in that blue-collar, middle-class world is a
big stand," said Sharon.

She was a smart and ambitious child. She has
described herself as "a nerdy, ugly duckling who
sat in the back of the closet with a flashlight
and read. I was never a kid. I walked and talked
at 10 months. I started school in the second grade
when I was five, a real weird, academically driven
kid, not at all interested in being social. Recess
was a drag until I realized I didn't have to play,
that I could lean up against a wall and read."
Most of the kids disliked her because she was
standoffish and didn't play children's games. One
day on the playground she announced, "I am the new
Marilyn Monroe." Her mother said "Sharon has been
posing from the day she arrived. She came out
posing."

As a young woman, her IQ was tested and rated at a
high level of 154 points. After skipping a grade
in school, she was involuntarily transferred from
Saegertown High to Edinboro University in
Pennsylvania, enrolling at the young age of 15. 

Because she was very self-conscious of her looks,
to the point that one biographer said she suffered
from "a textbook case of dysmorphic
disorder|dysmorphic body image, her uncle bribed
her with $100 to enter a local beauty contest in
order to improve her self-esteem. She entered the
contest because she needed the money to help pay
her college tuition. She lost the contest, but one
of the judges encouraged her to enter the Miss
Pennsylvania contest, which she declined. Instead,
she entered the county contest and won the title
of Miss Crawford County in Meadville. One of the
pageant judges said she should quit school and
move to New York to become a model. When her
mother heard this, she agreed, and in 1977 Stone
left Meadville, moving in with an aunt in New
Jersey. Within four days of her arrival in New
Jersey, she was signed by the elite Ford Modeling
Agency in New York.

==Entertainment career==

===1980 - 1990===

After joining the Ford Modeling Agency, Stone
spent a few years modeling, and appeared in TV
commercials for Burger King, Clairol and
Maybelline, but she didn't enjoy her work. While
living in Europe she decided to quit modeling and
become an actress. "So I packed my bags, moved
back to New York, and stood in line to be an extra
in a Woody Allen movie," she later recalled. She
was cast for a brief but memorable role in Allen's
Stardust Memories (1980), and then had a speaking
part a year later in the horror movie Deadly
Blessing (1981), which was a big box-office
success. When French director Claude Lelouch saw
Stone in "Stardust Memories" he was so impressed
that he cast her in "Les Uns et Les Autres"
(1982), starring James Caan. She was only on
screen for two minutes, and didn't appear in the
credits.

Her next role was in Irreconcilable Differences
(1984), starring Ryan O'Neal, Shelley Long, and
young Drew Barrymore. Stone plays a starlet who
breaks up the marriage of a sucessful director and
his screenwriter wife. The story was based on the
real-life experience of director Peter
Bogdanovich, his set designer wife Polly Platt,
and Cybill Shepherd, who as a young actress
starred in Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show
(1971). The highlight of her performance is when
her cocaine addict character plays Scarlett O'Hara
in a muscal remake of Gone With The Wind.  Later
that year, she took a part on Magnum, P.I., the
highest-rated television show at the time.

She married television producer Michael Greenburg
in 1984 on the set of The Vegas Strip War, a TV
movie he produced and she starred in, along with
Rock Hudson and James Earl Jones. The marriage
quickly fell apart; they split up three years
later, and their divorce was finalized in 1990.

Throughout the rest of the 1980s she appeared in
seven movies of poor quality, such as King
Solomon's Mines (movie)|King Solomon's Mines
(1985), and Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of
Gold (1987).

===1990 - 2005===


Her appearance in Total Recall (1990) with Arnold
Schwarzenegger gave her career a much needed jolt.
To coincide with the movie's release, she posed
nude for Playboy magazine, showing off the buff
body she developed in preparation for the movie
(she pumped iron and learned Tae Kwon Do.) She
said she posed for the magazine because she needed
the money. "I had just remodeled my house. I was
broke. I needed the bread."  

Shortly after the release of Total Recall, Stone
had a bad car accident on Sunset Boulevard in Los
Angeles.  Immediately after the acident, she went
home, not knowing she had just suffered a
concussion. She woke up almost completely
paralyzed, and ended up laying on the floor,
crying, for three days. When she finally got to
the hospital, she was diagnosed with the
concussion, a dislocated shoulder and jaw, several
broken ribs, and three compressed disks in her
back. The accident left scars that are visible in
some of her later screen appearances.

While her memorable role in the Schwarzenegger
movie should have lead to other important job
offers, her career took a considerable dip for the
next two years. She worked often and worked hard
(five movies in two years), but the movies were
low budget productions that few people saw.  It
wasn't until she took the role as a coke-snorting
bisexual serial killer in the sexually-charged
Basic Instinct (1992) that Sharon Stone became a
true star. It was the number one box office hit of
the year. That year, she was rated by People
magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in
the world.  

In 1995, Empire magazine chose her as one of the
100 sexiest stars in film history. 



In 1996, she received an Academy Award for Best
Actress nomination for her role as Ginger in
Martin Scorsese's Casino (movie)|Casino (1995), a
role for which she won a Golden Globe award. In
October 1997, she was ranked among the top 100
movie stars of all time by Empire magazine. 

On February 14, 1998, she married Phil Bronstein,
editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.
In 1999, she was rated among the 25 sexiest stars
of the century by Playboy. 

Stone and Bronstein got a divorce in January 2004,
after he had suffered a severe heart attack. They
have an adopted son named Roan, born in 2000.
Stone herself was hospitalized following a brain
aneurysm in October 2001, but has since recovered.


In 2005 during a television interview for her
movie Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction|Basic
Instinct 2, Sharon came out as
bisexuality|bisexual stating "Middle age is an
open-minded period."
http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=15253&sd=0
2/25/05

In April of 2004, she was awarded the National
Center for Lesbian Rights Spirit Award in San
Francisco for her support and involvement with
organizations that serve the lesbian, gay and
HIV/AIDS community. She was presented the award by
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, then embroiled
in a national controversy over his decision to
allow same sex marriage in his city.  

She lives in Beverly Hills, California, and owns a
ranch in New Zealand.

On Saturday, May 7 2005, Stone, at the age of 47,
adopted a baby boy who was born in Texas to a
surrogate mother. She has named the baby Laird
Vonne Stone.

==Filmography==
* Stardust Memories (1980)
* Within Memory (1981)
* Deadly Blessing (1981)
* Irreconcilable Differences (1984)
* King Solomon's Mines (movie)|King Solomon's
Mines (1985)
* Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
* Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
(1987)
* Cold Steel (1987)
* Action Jackson (1988)
* Above the Law (1988)
* Beyond the Stars (1989)
* Blood and Sand (1989)
* Total Recall (1990)
* He Said, She Said (1991)
* Scissors (movie)|Scissors (1991)
* Year of the Gun (1991)
* Diary of a Hitman (1991)
* Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1992)
* Basic Instinct (1992)
* Sliver (1993)
* Last Action Hero (1993)
* Intersection (movie)|Intersection (1994)
* The Specialist (1994)
* The Quick and the Dead (1995) (also co-producer)
* Casino (movie)|Casino (1995)
* Catwalk (movie)|Catwalk (1996) (documentary)
* Diabolique (1996)
* Last Dance (1996)
* Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997)
* Sphere (movie)|Sphere (1998)
* The Mighty (1998)
* Antz (1998) (voice)
* Junket Whore (1998) (documentary)
* Gloria (movie|Gloria (1999)
* The Muse (1999)
* Simpatico (1999)
* Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
* Beautiful Joe (2000)
* Searching for Debra Winger (2002) (documentary)
* Cold Creek Manor (2003
* A Different Loyalty (2004)
* Catwoman (2004)
* Jiminy Glick in La La Wood (2004) (Cameo)
* Broken Flowers (2005) (in post-production)
* Alpha Dog (2005) (in post-production)
* Shekhar Kapur Buddha Project (2006) (ann.)
* Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction (2006)
* Cougars (movie)|Cougars (2006) (announced start
of production)
* When a Man Falls in a Forest (2006) (announced)

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