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A cool blonde who combined brainy sex appeal and old-fashioned Hollywood glamour, Sharon Stone was one of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 1990s. She was a Ford Agency model in the late 1970s and then turned to acting, beginning with B-list movies like King Solomon's Mines (1985, with Richard Chamberlain) and Police Academy 4 (1987). Her brazen role as a sultry killer in the 1992 film Basic Instinct made her a star. (The movie's interrogation scene, with Stone uncrossing and crossing her legs seductively in front of co-star Michael Douglas, became an iconic Hollywood moment.) Her newfound star power put her in position to produce and star in the western The Quick and the Dead (1995, directed by Sam Raimi and ... starring Leonardo DiCaprio), and for her role in Martin Scorsese's crime film Casino (1995, co-starring Robert DeNiro) she was nominated for an Oscar. Since then her starring roles have been few and far between while she spends time raising two adopted children. Her other films include Sphere (1998, with Dustin Hoffman), the remake Gloria (1999, with Stone in the Gena Rowlands role) and Broken Flowers (2005, with Bill Murray).
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Sharon Stone is an actress and former model. She was Miss Crawford County for 1975, and the queen of her high school's spring festival. She reportedly worked at a local McDonald's before being hired as a model at age 19. By her early 20s she was a high-paid cover girl, and she made her film debut in 1980 as a blonde in the distance in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories. Stone's first famous role came ten years later, in Total Recall, as Arnold Schwarzenegger's double agent wife. In 1992, a fleeting glimpse of her vulva in Basic Instinct made her a recognizable Hollywood name.
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Actress Sharon Stone had a titanium coil placed, via catheter, to stop bleeding in her brain. Vice President Cheney, comedian Drew Carey, playwright Edward Albee, and talk show host Larry King all had coronary angioplasties.
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Born on March 10th, 1958 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Sharon Stone was still in school when she started acting. After college Sharon began a modeling career and was signed to represent Clairol, Diet Coke, and Revlon. Her modeling allowed her acting career to blossom, and she has appeared in such films as Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Sliver, Casino, Sphere, and The Muse.
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Sharon Stone's high school teachers were convinced she'd become a lawyer. Instead, she worked odd jobs until she landed a gig with the Ford Modeling agency, which landed her on magazine covers and TV commercials. In 1980, she made her film debut in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories as "pretty girl in train". Her real big break came with 1990's Total Recall, in which she played opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. The same year, at 32, she posed nude for Playboy and has been among the superstar elite ever since. The exposure landed her the lead in Basic Instinct; the interrogation scene in that film is still talked about today and so is her Golden-Globe-nominated performance. Stone followed Instinct with a slew of lesser pics — from Sliver to The Specialist — but finally won critical acclaim (and an Oscar nomination) playing Robert DeNiro's mob-boss wife in Casino.
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The first wife of director Oliver Stone, Sharon Stone was discovered in the early 1900's as a teenager living on the streets of Los Angeles, California. Driven by a work ethic seldom found in the homeless, Ms. Stone went on to enjoy a fifty-year career in Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals before turning her attention to film, where she first gained notoriety as a transexual murderer in Basic Instinct. Suggestive scenes in the film gave rise to a tabloid press controversy over whether a body double had been used in nude scenes showing female genitalia. She returned to the streets briefly before being offered the chance to star in a sequel to Basic Instinct called "The Ring," in which she starred as a ghostly being who lived at the bottom of a well. Critics raved about her performance, including the delivery of several memorable lines that became cultural catch-phrases, including, "Who is your daddy?" and "Where can a guy get a drink around here?"
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