Sharon Stone

Biography

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), thereafter clawed her way to stardom and has brought back an old-fashioned, high-octane glamour to her role as a "movie star". Sharon's free nude pictures are here.

Through the 1980s, Stone 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); and as 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).

Stone'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 naked leg-crossing scene brought Stone much-needed notoriety, but has haunted her ever since.

In a more conventionally sympathetic role, Stone 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. Sexy 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, Oscar-nominated performance as Ginger, the Vegas hustler who wins the heart of Robert De Niro, in "Casino" (also 1995).

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 noir classic "Diabolique" with Isabelle Adjani and Chazz Palmenteri, played a death-row inmate whose lawyer (Rob Morrow) works to save her from execution in "Last Dance" (both 1996) and teamed with Dustin Hoffman to examine an underwater spacecraft in "Sphere" (1998).

Pics

Nude video clip:
Irreconcilable Differences (1984)