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| | American actress Sharon Vonne Stone was born on 10th of March, 1958 in USA. She grew in a big family, in Northwest Pennsylvania, in a small boring town Meadville. In childhood, Sharon was ugly, tall, bony and wore glasses with thick lens. Only thing, she could boast of, was her brains: At the age of 13, she had higher IQ - 150 points amongst coevals. Her mother worked in a library and father - in railways. He made small Sharon learn to handle the arms and now, pair of loaded shot-guns is always available in Sharon Stone's house.
Already by the end of seventies, she traveled a long distance, from saleswoman in "McDonald's" to a successful model in Ford Modeling Agency of Eileen Ford. For the first time, Sharon Stone appeared in Woody Allen's movie “Stardust Memories "(1980). In this movie, she played a silent beauty, at whom a careless glance was made from a passing-by train. Her "star" life begins, but it will be difficult and long.
In 1980's, Sharon Stone appeared in small roles: in "Deadly Blessing” of Wes Craven; in "Irreconcilable Differences” (1984), where unfortunate waitress turn into irritable movie star. Stone plays the role of a daughter of archaeologist in "King Solomon's mines" (1985) and in a sequel movie - "Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold" (1986). These two adventure films are perfectly presented, stylistically are very similar to the trilogy “Indiana Jones”, though concede to it in technical parameters. Sharon Stone appeared in small roles in “Police Academy 4" (1984), "Action Jackson" (1988) and in “Blood and Sand” (1989), which nobody recollects as a remake. Stone also acted on TV, starting with small roles in "Not Just Another Affair" (1982), and then in bigger roles in television movies "Calendar Girl Murders" (ABC, 1984) and in "Tears in Rain” (Showtime, 1988). Only appreciable work of Sharon Stone on TV was in unknown mini-serial "War and remembrances” (ABC, 1988-89).
First success came to Sharon Stone, when she played cynical, cruel and kick-boxer wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, a secret service agent, in fantastic action thriller of Paul Verhoeven "Total Recall" (1990). After five more unimpressive thrillers and comedies, at last Sharon Stone became a star - after role of sexually insatiable author of detective books in the popular and controversial movie “Basic instinct” (1992) of the same director Paul Verhoeven. Fashionable "psychological" plot, an intrigue, beautiful and seductive fore-shortenings (legendary interrogation scene, where Sharon crosses and uncrosses her legs without wearing underwear) brought Sharon long-awaited, though scandalous glory, which since then follows her.
Later she played more "decent" role in a melodrama, also with little sexual implication and distinguishing with a vague plot - "Sliver" (1993), which did not bring huge profits in United States but was received well abroad. Finally, not to stay for long as sex bomb, Stone selected a role of a strict wife in movie "Intersection" (1994) which did not taste huge success but once again was received well outside United States and action movie “The Specialist” (1994) with Sylvester Stallone made cash desk ringing. After that film, Sharon Stone stated that she would stop acting in erotic films since she is not young enough to play such roles and would wish to try new roles.
However, her next film "The Quick and the dead" (1995), which was produced by herself for the first time, made less profits. In this western, Sharon Stone looked perfect playing the cowboy in Clint Eastwood's style. Though the director of the film Sam Raimi (who was selected by Stone herself) made the film with style but the critics did not like the film very much and only few came to watch the movie.
But the actress once again was successful in the role of Ginger McKenna in film "Casino", a prostitute from Las-Vegas, with whom the hero Robert De Niro falls in love. This film brought new popularity to Sharon Stone and the movie made good profits and was nominated for awards. Sharon Stone has not stopped there - she has a film studio "Chaos" and Sharon Stone signed a contract with company "Miramax". Sharon Stone played in not so successful remake "Diabolique" along with Isabelle Adjani and Chazz Palminteri and then convincingly played a role of a prisoner, sentenced with death penalty, in the film "Last Dance" (1996). |
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Sharon Stone celebrates her 50th birthday today. Stone became internationally famous after her leading role in "Basic Instinct" in 1992 which became one of the most famous Hollywood movies of all times. Stone was nominated for the Academy Awards but never won. She won Golden Globe Awards and Emmy Awards. However Sharon Stone also received Golden Raspberry Awards (worst actress) for her role in "Basic Instinct 2" which tanked badly.
