Sharon Stone Biography
Name : Sharon Stone
Date Of Birth : March 10, 1958
Place Of Birth : Meadville, PA .USA
Height : 5' 7�''
Eyes : Blue
Hair : Blonde
Education : Saegertown High School in PA;
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania in Edinboro, PA (creative writing, fine arts)
Occupation : Actor, Producer
Sign : Sun in Pisces, Moon in Sagittarius
Husband : Phil Bronstein (1998)
Ex- Husband : George Englund
Michael Greenburg
Parents : Father : Joseph Stone (factory worker),
Mother : Dorothy Stone (homemaker).
Production company : Chaos
Agent : Guy McElwaine
Fan Mail : C/O PMK
955 S. Carillo Dr., Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90048
USA
Birth Name : Sharon Vonne Stone
Sharon Stone Trivia
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in Film History" (#49). [1995]
Sharon and husband Phil Bronstein, a newspaperman, adopted a child they named Roan Joseph Bronstein, born 22 May 2000 in Texas. He weighed 5 pounds, 6 ounces, and was adopted by Stone and Bronstein a week after birth. His first name is Celtic for "seal," and his middle name is a tribute to Stone's father. [July 2000]
Playboy Magazine's "100 Sexiest Stars of the Century," Number 24. [1999]
Entered Pennsylvania's Edinboro University at age 15.
IQ of 154 (Source: The Times, March 25th, 1998).
Ranked #77 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Reported to be dating Columbia Pictures production boss, Barry Josephson. [November 1996]
Engaged to producer William J. MacDonald. [1993-1994]
Former "Ford" Model.
Owns her own production company, Chaos.
Lives in Beverly Hills.
Went to school at Saegertown High School, Saegertown, PA.
Has a visible scar on her neck that is usually covered by clothing.
Has one older brother, one younger brother, and a younger sister (Kelly Stone).
Auditioned for the Cathy Moriarty role in Raging Bull (1980).
As a teenager worked part-time as a McDonald's countergirl.
One of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People." [1992]
Is allergic to caffeine.
One of People Magazine's "25 Most Intriguing People" of 1992.
Auditioned for the Glenn Close role in Fatal Attraction (1987).
Auditioned for the Kim Basinger role in Batman (1989).
Auditioned for the Madonna role in Dick Tracy (1990).
Turned down the role in Exit to Eden (1994) that later went to Rosie O'Donnell.
Speaks Italian
Is asthmatic.
Ex-husband Phil Bronstein is one of the editors of the San Francisco Examiner.
Received a humanitarian award from the Human Rights Campaign, a well-funded organization specializing in gay and lesbian rights, for her role in If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) (TV), in which she plays the lover to Ellen DeGeneres', with whom she wants to raise a child. [2000]
Is a gay rights activist.
Stone's former housekeeper Socorro Del Carmen Membreno pleaded not guilty to grand theft of $300,000 worth of jewelry and other valuables from Stone's L.A. home two months earlier. [2 March 2000]
As a child, Sharon once said she would become the next Marilyn Monroe.
Sharon was granted a restraining order against Agostino P'omata, who allegedly had made threats of violence against her. [27 March 2001]
Dated Dwight Yoakam in the early 1990s, and was rather famously quoted as saying, "Kissing Dwight is like eating a dirt sandwich."
Suffered a brain aneurysm and was hospitalized for a while. [October 2001]
Irish-American
Sister of actor Michael Stone.
Has one adopted son, Roan Joseph Bronstein, born on 22 May 2000.
Former daughter-in-law of Cloris Leachman and George Englund.
Is a close friend of Jeanne Moreau. Presented a 1998 American Academy of Motion Pictures life tribute to her.
Measurements: 35B-24-35 (as Ford model-1980), 36B-25-35 (self-described in 1993 as wearing a 36B bra), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)
Spent many long workdays in agony while filming scenes for _Casino (1995)_ . She has back trouble due to an old injury, and the gold and white beaded gown she wore during a casino scene weighed 45 pounds.
She passionately kissed fan Joni Rimm for charity after she paid $50,000 for the pleasure. She auctioned the kiss in aid of Project Angel Foods, a Los Angeles charity providing meals for homeless people. (August 12, 2003)
Made a teenage ballet star's dreams come true by giving her $ 75,000 for tuition fees.
During Total Recall (1990) filming, she complained to director Paul Verhoeven that she wasn't sure whether her character really was married to Doug.
June 11, 2001: her husband, Phil Bronstein, underwent foot surgery after being attacked by a Komodo dragon during a private tour of Los Angeles Zoo. The tour was arranged by Stone as a Father's Day gift for Bronstein, who had always wanted to see one of the Indonesian lizards up close. The attack occurred after Bronstein had removed his white shoes. Zookeepers later speculated the 5-foot- long lizard may have mistaken the shoes for white rats it ate regularly.
Met her close friend Mimi Craven on the set of _Deadly Blessing (1981)_ . They subsequently worked together on the film Last Dance (1996) in 1996.
A sex scene in The Quick and the Dead (1995) between Ellen (Stone) and Cort (Russell Crowe) was shot, but Stone and director Sam Raimi decided that it wasn't a necessary part of the story. The scene was not included in the American release of the film, but international versions do include it.
Received the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government in 1995.
Is diabetic.
Her scar on her neck is from a childhood accident. She was riding a horse and she ran right into a clothes line and it ripped her neck open.
Is a big supporter of the AIDS research organization AMFAR.
Her famous "leg crossing" scene in Basic Instinct (1992) was voted "Sexiest Leg Moment on Screen" in a poll for Veet.
Entered the Miss Pennsylvania Pageant at age 17.
Moved to New York City (1977).
Appeared as spokesmodel contestant on the pilot for the syndicated series "Star Search" (1983); won the competition (1983).
Won the Miss Crawford County (Pennsylvania) beauty pageant and was also queen of her high school's spring festival (1975).
As a child, put on theatrical productions in the family's two-car garage before an audience of neighbors seated at a picnic table; as one garage door went down, the other would go up, revealing a new Stone-created set.
28 Jan 2005, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland. At the end of the debate on 'funding the war on poverty', she stood up and pledged 10,000 dollars and asked people to follow her. Already, within a few minutes they raised nearly 100,000 dollars - she wanted to raise at least one million. She did it in 5 minutes. It's mone that will go directly to the Global Fund to Fight Aids Tuberculosis and Malaria - to buy bed nets to stop deaths from malaria in the developing world.
Graduated from the Edinboro State University of Pennsylvania with a degree in creative writing & fine arts
Member of the Jury at Cannes Festival in 2002 alongside David Lynch, Christine Hakim, Claude Miller, Michelle Yeoh, Raoul Ruiz, R�gis Wargnier, Walter Salles and 'Bill August' (full-length films category).
adopted a son, Laird Vonne Stone, who was born "to unknown and unrelated parents" in Texas on May 7, 2005. [11 May 2005]
Created Officer in France's Order of Arts and Letters by Festival President Gilles Jacob, 20 May 2005 on the sidelines of the 58th edition of the Cannes International Film Festival.
14 March 2005: for the past 10 years a dedicated foundraiser and advocate for AIDS research, she received the Harvard Foundation's 2005 Humanitarian Award at the Memorial Church.
Is good friends with singer Christina Aguilera and attended Aguilera's November 19, 2005 wedding to music producer Jordan Bratman in Napa Valley, California.
She donated many items to Rocky Stone to be given to less fortunate kids as part of the Toy Mountain Campaign.
Sharon Stone Detailed Biography
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.
This former beauty pageant contestant and Ford model made her film debut with a non-speaking part as a beautiful woman fleetingly glimpsed from a moving train in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980), and thereafter clawed her way to a stardom that has brought back an old-fashioned, high-octane glamour to the role of ''movie star.'' Sharon, who grew up a bookworm in a large family in Northwest Pennsylvania, worked her way up from McDonald's counter-girl to successful Ford model (both in print ads and TV commercials) by the late 1970s.
Through the 1980s, Sharon appeared as a stereotypical blonde in mostly forgettable roles: in Wes Craven's Deadly Blessing (1981); as a down-and-out waitress turned petulant movie star in Irreconcilable Differences (1984); an archaeologist's daughter in King Solomon's Mines (1985) and its sequel, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987). Other unmemorable early credits include Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987), Action Jackson (1988) and the umpteenth remake of Blood and Sand (1989).
Sharon also struggled in TV, beginning with a tiny part in ''Not Just Another Affair'' (CBS, 1982), the short-lived series Bay City Blues (NBC, 1983) and gradually bigger (though not better) roles in the TV movies ''Calendar Girl Murders'' (ABC, 1984), ''The Vegas Strip War'' (NBC, 1984), the failed cop-show pilot ''Hollywood Starr'' (ABC, 1985), ''Mr. and Mrs. Ryan'' (ABC, 1986), ''Badlands 2005'' (ABC, 1988) and ''Tears in the Rain'' (Showtime, 1988). Probably her only TV success was a supporting role as Robert Mitchum's daughter-in-law in the epic miniseries War and Remembrance (ABC, 1988-89).
Sharon's first real break was playing Arnold Schwarzenegger's kick-boxing, secret agent ''wife'' in Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi actioner Total Recall (1990). After five more forgettable thrillers and comedies, she finally achieved the proverbial ''overnight'' stardom as a sexually voracious crime writer opposite Michael Douglas in Verhoeven's controversial and popular erotic thriller, Basic Instinct (1992). Her pantieless leg-crossing scene brought Sharon much-needed notoriety, but has haunted her ever since.
In a more conventionally sympathetic role, Sharon followed up with another sizzling sex melodrama, Sliver (1993), which did middling business stateside but proved a solid success overseas. Trying to escape the sex-bomb trap, she begged for the frigid wife role in Intersection (1994), which met with limited success. She again flexed her international box-office clout paired with Sylvester Stallone in the explosive actioner The Specialist (1994) but fared much less well commercially with her next project, The Quick and the Dead (1995), which marked her producing debut. Sharon looked terrific in Western duds playing something of a distaff version of a Clint Eastwood-like gunfighter. Her directorial choice, Sam Raimi, helmed the smartly derivative tale with style to spare but the critical reception was uneven and the public stayed away. She rebounded with her widely acclaimed performance as Ginger, the Vegas hustler who wins the heart of Robert De Niro, in Martin Scorsese's Casino (also 1995), a film that earned her a long sought-after Academy Award nomination.
The highly-paid, much-in-demand star (she has her own production company, Chaos, and has signed a first-look deal with Miramax) next filmed a remake of the Henri-Georges Clouzot's noir classic Diabolique with Isabelle Adjani and Chazz Palmentieri and played a death-row inmate whose lawyer (Rob Morrow) works to save her from execution in Last Dance (both 1996).
Sharon, a diva who thoroughly enjoys her hard-won stardom, is a clever manipulator of her public image�on heavy press days, she reportedly changes outfits between each interview and photo session, a practice unheard of since the days of Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer. She lives, fittingly enough, in a gated French chateau in Beverly Hills.
Source: netglimse.com
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